The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-08
HmerIea and It's boIy Ones.

/ it is in consequence being taken there.
/ This is the case of Sister Catherine
Burke, who is SO years old. and is a
native of ST. Louis. She Joined the or
der when II years old. Two years ago,
/ when stationed at Omaha, Neb., she
became afflicted with a stomach trou-
BILE. An Omaha physician said she had
| a cancerous tumOr, and he bnaily gave
her up. The last sacraments of the
church were administered to her. The
sisters decided to make novena to
Nine. Rarrat, fOundress of the Order of
the Sacred Heart They prayed for
nine days, and a garment that mad
been worn by Nine Barrat was placed
! on Sister Catherine. On the morning
of the ninth day, it is stated, Sister
Catherine got out of bed entirely cured,
dressed herself and reported to the
Mother Superior for duty. She is now
said to be in perfect health
Mother Seton.
Unlike Nine. Duchesne, another Amer
lean holy woman, was a native of the
United States. This was Mother Sc
ton, foundress of the American Sisters
of Charity, who was received into the
church on March 25, 1895, by the Rev.
Mathew O'Brien. who, with his brother,
! the Rev. William O'Brien, of the Domi-
iiCdI OIueI, were lWO VI Tie lOul
priests that ministered to the small
Catholic community of New York in
the early years of the past century.
The cause of this religious foundress is
being actively prosecuted.
Apostle of Chippewa Indians.
Another person. whose cause is being
pressed forward, did not belong to any
religious institute. This is the apostle
of the Chippewa Indians, Bishop Bar
ago. fellow countryman of the Ven
cradle Neumann. He reached the
United States in 1929. He began his
ministry by preaching to the non-Cath-
olics of the west. He relates an Incl
dent of his preaching in a Protestant
church in Ohio in secular clothes, and
he adds that II intended to ask my
bishop for permission to let me always
travel around in the country to seek
such lost souls, and stay with each one
until he should be thoroughly in
structed, baptized and strengthened in
the faith But his superiors consid
cred the ministry among the Indians
more fruitful He was sent to the
northern peninsula of Michigan, and
there for many years he lived and Ia
bored among the Indians. In his in
cessant journeys as priest or bishop
he often suffered untold hardShips and
bore miseries of every description, be-
ing several times in imminent danger
of death. Nor did he finch at the
deadly cold of that climate often trav-
cling many weary miles on snow shoes,
packing on his back his personal bag
gage and all the articles necessary for
the Holy Sacrifice, sleeping under the
open sky or in some wretched Indian
wigwam. Meanwhile his abstinence
was simply miraculous He would
travel all day, padding in a canoe |
from dawn to dark, or sliding painfully |
along on snow shoes through the track
less forest, and first and last crave |
for his daily nourishment but a little |
bread and biscuits, cheese and tea. For
the last twenty-odd years of his life |
he never at flesh meat. AS to wine |
and all alcoholic drinks, he was a to- |
tai abstainer of the strictest kind, |
practicing that virtue rigidly and !
and enforcing it among his |
Indians universally.