Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-02-19
Written Interestingly by
l4-Year-Old Boy
Good Efforts by Pupils
of St. Mary's School,
Appreciated by the Sunday Com
parion, a Catholic Weekly.

Last october The sunday tOmpan-
ion, printed by D. II. Mcbride & Co.,
of this city, contained beautiful
picture called "Vision of st. Teresa"
by vernet-Lecomte. In response to
a request to have readers who had
been confirmed, write about st. Teresa
and the vision about which the picture
tells. The Companion has received
several excellent articles.
Pupils of st. Mary's school, this city.
have surpassed any other school, in
writing a description of the Saints
life. The following named pupils, The
Companion says. have written ex-
cellent articles: Rose Burns, Alice
Frantz, Nellie Dunn, Chas. Stein
metz, Edward Mcfarland, William
Koerschner, T. A. Lynch, Mary A..
Degan, Gertrude Crawford. Frank
Kempel, John Gilhooly, Katharine
Steese. Grace V. Degan, John E.
Schwalpach, Mary Mcfarland, Frank
c. Martin. Jane Lewis, Anna Mahan,
Mary Fitzgerald, Myrtle German and
Grace Sweeney.
Rosaline Marie Williams, of st.
Bernard's school, also wrote a very
nice story about st. Teresa.
From among the list of articles sub
mitted by pupils Of st. Mary's school
that of John E. Schwalbach, aged ID
years. was accepted. The writer lives
with his aunts, the Misses Ehret, of
5O21a Bell ST. The article which ap'
peared Sunday. is very interesting
1t follows:
ST. TERESA.
"On every day of the year when the
Sacrifice of the Mass is offered by
the priest, some special commemora
tion is made In honor of the Saint
who died years ago upon that day
In looking over the calendar of the
church, the eye falls on the name:
of many Saints and among their mum
ber We find that of st. Teresa, whose
feast is celebrated on the 10Th Of
October.
Teresa was born in Spain on the
2Sth of March, 1915, of very virtuou'
parents. Her father delighted il
books, which interested her YER!
much. BY means of the pious instruc
ton and example of her parents. Got
inclined the tender heart of Teres;
from her infancy to His service. While
vet a child she had derived from
prayer an ardent desire for martyr
dom, which led her to desire to taxi
fight from her fathers house and q
among the Moors, there to shed he
blood for Jesus Christ.
Frustrated in her intention to be
come a martyr, she began with he
brother to build a hermitage in tn
garden. She was often heard repeat
ing. Always. never, eternally.'
"Her mother died when she was +
years old. In great grief she threy
herself upon her knees before a pictur
of the Blessed Virgin and begged he
to be her mother.
"St. Teresa was very much devote
to the Blessed Virgin and st. JOSEPH
of the latter she says she never asl<e
anything through his intercession tina
she did not obtain.
"At the ageof Is, her father place
her in a convent, of Austin Nuns |
/ Avila. After a year and a half speI
in this convent she fell dangerousl
i'll and her father took her home. Sh
now desired to become a nun, but t
this her father would not consent. II
said that after his death she might d
as she wished. For his death she di
not wait, but went privately to tn
Convent of the incarnation of th
Carmelite nuns.
when she took the habit Go
] changed her manner entirely. A
though during life she had many trial
she was successful In everything sh
undertook. She lived to see founde
16 nunneries Of her Reformed Orde
and Ia converts Of Carmelite friars.
"She left to the Church many wri
ings in which are contained account
Of the marvellous lights she obtaine
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