Evening journal., 1893-06-21
THE URSULINES SOCIETY.
THAT CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION AT
THE ACADEMY OF VISITATION.

They win Enter the Delaware Avenue
InstItution About the Middle OF July
and WIN Then Issue Their Prosbec-
tus.
The Ursulines have issued the follow
ing circular letter, with the approval Of
Bishop Curtis
AT the invitation Of the Right Rev.
Bishop of this diocese band Of Ursul-
ines from the community OF Mt. St.
Ursula, Bedford Park, New York city,
will, on September 4, succeed the Vista
tion Nuns in the conduct of the Catholic
Academy on Delaware avenue.
CAS- they are strangers to you, a word
about themselves will not be out Of
place. The Ursulines are the Oldest
religious teachers in America. The
order was founded 1880 by St. Angela
MeIici, an Italian, who, being too humble
to give IL her own name, called 10 after
her patroness, st. Ursula. st. Angela
was one Of the first 10 recognize the i'm
portance of woman's influence in the
family and she sndeayored to make the
young women OF her time virtuous and
accomplished.
"The first Ursuline TO arrive in Amer
lea was Mother Mary Of the Incarnation,
who in 1889 founded the Quebec convent,
and there trained white and Indian
children. At present, converts of this
order can be found in nearly every dio-
cese Of the United States.
1.-The Ursulines will be happy II they
can continue successfully the work of
the good. visitation nuns, and they only
ask that they receive the same conf.
dence and support at your hands
They come as strangers to your
midst-from a different climate even
but they come willingly, ready to sunder
old ties and take up new ones If their
effort to assist you in the education of
your daughters whose welfare is so i'm
portant to you and to society, is met and
appreciated. Not so much for them
selves as for the sake of the credit of
your diocese and city do they hope that
! this work. which after much prayer and
counsel that have undertaken, will be
blessed with your favor and Heavens.
"The Ursulines can guarantee the
parents of pupils that their charges
will be shielded from the temptations
Of the world, that they will have the
advantage Of. association with refined
aud leducated Christian ladies, and that
| they will be given instruction OF a kind
and scope to best fit them for their
duties as Catholic American women in
these days
Their methods are progressive, and
no branch is retained in their curriculum
merely because it is old, and no innova-
tion is rejected If it is fitted to the
needs of the hour. The discipline
is gentle and maternal, seeking by
persuasion and reason to induce
right conduct. No restraints that are
not wise and conducive to the best inter
ests Of the pupil are imposed, and re-
spect and love for the instructor is the
inevitable outcome Of such a relation.
1.-THE terms will be found much the
same as those of their predecessors, and
will be embodied in a prospectus to be
issued during the summer. The re-
spected bishop Of this diocese has been
kind enough to usher us into the work
with this appreciation.
Il am more than willing that you
should reproduce In your prospectus the
commendation l heretofore gave the
Academy Of the Visitation. l feel sure
you are as much entitled to it.
"Yours faithfully in Christ,
"a. A. CURTIS,