The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-19

entry, he was much struck by her appearance
! she was then, he says, ain her vigor wei
prop "3i ne very erect, and having an ex.
with spiritual softness peryadfno feafnres
that indicated her remarkable powers of mini
ana Meart: she wore plain black stuff dress,
closed to the throat, her hair was rrrt off her
head, and on il she wore the plainest of belgian
caps" When the Bishop spoke OF payment,
she answered with great pride that She came
to werk for God and not for money; and he
readily received her into his Mission.
Margaret now went to work with the factory
people OF Coventry, and got about two hun
lred Slris to come to school to. the Mission,
Where she tlld her best to teach them, instruct
them, ana Keep them out of harms way She
VISITED the sick, and soon made herself ms wei
known In Coventry as she had been in Bruges
She was Sacristap< Of the Mission ChapeI and
it was her great purpose to mako it as iilce The
Beigian churches as possible. She was the
lover aud championess of the Virgin Mary and
h a hef scuiptured image-brought over from
Brgges-put on the school-room altar where
SHE had rosaries, services and .chantings, all
after the Flemish manner. She greatly helnad
IN the building of the new church of Coyentry
IN 1915, ana Went to BruEes in 1874 to collect
money for % beautiful ci6orian, and other mat
tiers. lu 1915 she gloried over the counplebed
church, and when somebody objected that snch
s,, oal hs was not wanted for congregation
SLnt had not respectable person belong TO it,
she fetorted, " 1t is built for God and 1e ie 4
respectable person, supposei''-
In 1876 Margaret left Coventry, and under
the direction of Ullathorne and other managers
2.aer 81 81
T;stricts Where they hired 4 house for7 sJ,i,
little community in Queens Square, BRISTOL
Here she worked in her usual devoted way
among the people and in the church. ard In
loH she was, for her great merit, sppointed
Superioress of all the Dominican Tertiaries of
the West, under Bishop Ullathorne! She ar
IDENTIFY co-operated with Fathers GentiI and
Furlong, and labored to gather the poor cIiil.
dren into her school. One year shelsaw with
pain the Protestant children walking in decent
procession through the Streets while the little
Catholics crowded round them and ran wild
with nobody to care for them; she instantly
hlade vow that the latter should walk Just rs
respectfully next year, and she had her wish
accordingly. In 1873 she and her community
removed to Clifton, in the same city, and there
in the chapel of her convent, she put up the
image of the Virgin AfarS-a thing not hith-
erto allowed in the Catholic places OF worship.
This Was thought n peceof audacity, and even
some Catholics did not like It. But she iusist-
ed, and lhthe end got permission from her
supertors the have to figure displayed and orna-
mented, AS on the Continent of Europe. IF
Mary was honored in the EvangeIsr she did not
see why she should not be lonored in the Chris
tan places of worship; and in this also Mar
garrett Hallahau was right.
Still working like pioneer of the Church,
Margaret next got up an affiliated community
of Sisters at Longton, in the midst of the
Staffordshire lotteries. She had now three
places of the kind to care for, arranging their
OGOSE anu On peIlseS, AklU always anxious AUOut
theifschools. She always loved reading and
hooks;'ba she had no liking for theinteiectuai
plans and systems recommended for the in
structon of children. She was against the
notion of any high, scientific education Of
those who should get their bread by labor,
being chiefly anxious that they should be
made moral and religious. Her ideas In this
were very Shrewd and sensible though
many thought them too narrow In ISL her
health was SO much impaired by her early
privations, labors and general
ansterlties that she was ordered by her SUI
perIor, mucn against her will, to 40 to Bangor.
But she soon cOnsoled herself when she found
that she was in the -neighhorhood- ST.
Winifreds Well, and immediately net about
bringing that romantic old Spa once more into
fashion. 1t a blessed old place in the
middle ages, and why not be the same again ?
She visited it, Drank of it, bathed in it, and got
up NoreHd for it-that is, for st. Winfred,
and listened to every suggestion that some
strong healing virtues must certainly belong
to its waters She was in love with that
legendary little fount, and wrote--'I could
look at it forever" She saw Protestants and
Catholics crowtling to the WELL but complained
that they did not believe in it. "They say it |
8 wonderful water" she writes, "and that is
all l am almost in passion with them"
The simplicity and originality of her mind and
manners were very remarkable, and her voice |
ind ways were genuinely Irish-the training |
md accent of her early home being very |
Derceptible, in spite of all the English French |
md Belgian influences of her life. She was |
natural and unaffected in everything I
he dld, and always liked young people. |
Chongh she always told her novices that the I
world was place of probation and trial, she /
vas always anxious about their health, and |
Wished she could have fields attached tosthe |
'Onvents, where they cOuld run about Ike |
olts"--an expression which never came to her
ither from London or Belgium. She ordered
hat, where it was possible, the novices and
choOl-girls should lie allowed to play ball for |
Sercisei while, in her own convent, she wonId |
lid the young people mako themselves merry,
nd sometimes join them, having her eyes |
andaged, and making guesses according to the |
ule of some of their games. She disliked the |
1ere show of learning when once a boy,
d answer to hard question, said Abraham
anle from Mesnnnt min she anih 40 mint a |