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was anxious to at once become a Sister.
Her conversion created great excitement
throughout Vermont, and she was at
once requested to return home, with
which request she complied. While at
home every argument and inducement
was used to dissuade her from her reso-
luton to become a religious. From end
to end of the state the matter was dis
ter? Was Rome to capture Vermont s
cussed and gossiped about. General
Ethan Aliens daughter a Catholic Sis
most distinguished daughter in this unr
forseen way? But Fanny Allen was in
downright earnest, and she remained at
home with her parents as long as she
expiration of the year she returned to
Montreal and in due time she made her
profession at the age OF 26. Many of
her acquaintances from Vermont were
present and their visit was the means
Of softening many Of their foolish no.
tions about convent life. She spent ten
years in devoted work in the convent
and at the commencement of her clev-
euth year of religious life she was seized
with lung trouble.
HER DEATH.
The annals of the Hotel Dieu, Mont
real, thus describes her last days: THE
disease becoming alarming, she asked
of the Mother Superior to be attended
by an American physician of her ac-
quaintance who resided in Montreal.
The request was granted. The doctor
who was Protestant. did all in his
power to restore her to health, but in
vain. Providence permitted that he
was present when she died. When he
saw all the Sisters bathed in tears,
praying on Blended knees, when he heard
the priest recite the prayers for the de-
parting soul, he was much impressed; !;
himself falling on his knees, remaining
motionless in the most respectful atti-
tude. The Sister Superior having re-
quested him to say If Sister Allen hal
expired. he raised his eyes to heaven
and said: Yes, she has expired The
priest then recited the prayer, Come tu
her assistance, all We saints of God
The docter again knelt down to the
end, seeming to be much affected with q
sight which was new to him. He pub
lished In the paper a relation of the
death of Sister Allen. He added that
he would never more in this world see
the Sisters, but hoped to be reunited tl
them in heaven He left the city o.
Montreal without informing any one o
his project. The Sisters, although the,
inquired much about him, have never
been able to learn whittier he went an(
conjectured that he had gone to Europe
intending to join the Church and enter
some religious community.
In the account OF Fanny Aliens life
Dy Bishop De Goesbriand in his littlt
yclume-"Catholic NJ noirs of Vermont
and New Hampshire which
have taken most OF the aboye Its, hs
closes his sKetc by qroting Lose words
of Mci.l lem. -. lis this a L cam, .he
page of a romance? Is 1t only history?
the history of past forever ended? No;
once more it Is What we behold, and
what happens among us every day
Who, then, is this invisible lover, dead
upon cross, eighteen hundred years
ago, who thus attracts to Him youth
beauty and love? Who appears to them
clothed with glory and charm which
they cannot withstand who scizcs OF,
the living flesh of our flesh and drains
the purest blood Of our blood? Is II n
man? No, it is God. There lies the
secret; there the key of this sublime
and sad mystery. God alone could win
such victories and desrve such sacrifices.
Jesus, whose God-head is among us
daily insulted or denied proves it daily
by those miracles of self denial and self
devotion which are called vocations.
Young and innocent hearts give them
selves to Him, to reward Him for the
gift He has given us for Himself, and
this sacrifice by which we are cruciflcd
is but the answer of human love to the
love of that God who was crucilied for
u.s."