Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-07-29
FRANCISCAN AUAs
TO CARE: FOR |: LEPERsI
Catholics Intend Going to China
and Will Devote ThsIP Lives
to Healing The Sick,
DISEASE IS PREVALENT THERE
Poor Creatures arc Turned out; to !
Die and lf>t Were No. for tho
Catholics Many Of Them Woula5
s'srve to Death Government mt DOCS ss
Nothing for Thorn. i
DISEASE IS PREVALENT THERE

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When Hcv. Father l.. Il. Conrnrdy, u
M, d., companion and successor OF
Father Damien. OF Molokai who is 2
now In New York In tho interests OF II
the lepers OF China, gets his mission
established among those neglected A
outcnsts he will be Joined by four s
or more devoted women from the q
Franciscan Order of the Missionary Il.
les of Mary, says the New York T
Tribune
These women have an unusually
liberal rule" which permits then, s
TO do anything from scrubbng to h
teaching, and 1t appears that aitif
these diversified talents will be need.
cd among the lenors of China. those
most pitiful Of outcasts, driven forth
from the homes or men to do Of
their dreadful tlsense. when they
are not, more merrirully, burned to;
death, e 5Sf a
Women Want to Work. ~
When Father Conrardy was por.s
feeling tho plnns for his ieper sn,is.s
sion, therefore, he decided to askS
these women to help him, anu let
ter to tho mother general. Marie do /
st. Vcronlquc, In Rene. brought the
reply that the Missionaries Of Mary
nsplrcd to such work, (" ms tile SOL
der asplres TO the place OF greatest
danger upon the battlefield"
I'VE greatly. love the work for lep.
ers,' said the mother general. ut i
was very dearto st. Francis and not
Tess dear to our beloved motaer,s
founder, who. before she died, ss.
tnbl'sheyl hospitals for lopcrs In .Ja.
pan, In Burma and III madagascar"
Nuns to be Sent to China.
Father Conrardy will send for the x
sisters Just as soon rs he cnn pro-
vide n place of residence for them
nnd is assured of their support. and
he hopes to induce special group
OF men and women to assume the
responsibility OF maintaining them
According to the picture painted
by Father Conrardy, the Sisters have
task before them much more ar
dnous and revolving than that OF !
Father Damien. S
The lepers of Molokal are cared
for by the government. In China
there are so many of these, wretched 4
outcasts that Father Conrardy's OBJ
ject must be to care for us many as D
possible. 4.
Two and ~ half cents day VIII
maintain leper but 1t will not pros;
vide him with hospital conyenienoes:;5
1t will not even give him bed to;
sleep In, and the Sisters will have
to do large part of the mental
work OF the colony, besides dressing
sores and feeding those who have
lost their hands, without the aid q IS
tho commonest csnveniences, withs
ont even an adequate supply Of
water. ss fs. fsss$ ID
Many Persons voiuntsed
| with such prospect, Father
Conrardy has thought itwise TO rec
fuse offers OF personal service to hlss
beloved lepers. Trained nurses and
other young women have asked toe
be permitted to Join In the work but
he thinks that the Sisters, with thsiiS
thirst for the post OF danger aas
traditional love for lepers will bet
more reliable 81 Fl {
One such offer from a fell born
young ngllslman he did accept
promising that II the young man ]
would accompany him he himseIEs
would do 9all the dirty work. But
the volunteer speedily though better
of It and backed out. 4. 1
Father Conrardy who e now STAY
ling at the rectory OF st. Andrew
parish, Duane and CentrsS sstr9 sts,