Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-07-27
BELOVED SISTER
LUCILLE RET|RES
As Sister Superior
of Local Sisters
of Loretto
HER SUCCESSOR NAMED
Sister Barbara of Ell Paso
Comes to Santa Fe..-For.
mer to Mother House.

The statement made in the New
Mexican on Tuesday Of the change in
Sister Superior Of the local commun-
ity Of the Sisters Of Loretto is con-
firmed by the El Paso Herald. Re
garding the change the Herald says:
Sister Barbara. the well known and
beloved Sister Superior of St Joseph's
Academy on north El Paso Street, has
been taken from her work in FL Paso
to go to another field She has been
transferred by the mother house to
The position of superior Of the con.
vent at Santa Fe and will not return
to Ell Paso She has been absent in
Kansas City, the eastern headquar-
ters OF the Siser Of l.oretto. for some
time past and when she leaves there
it will be to report at Santa Fe to
take up her new work She will come
to Ell Paso to close up her affairs here
and bid the Sisters goodbye, but she
will not remain here. Sister Xavier,
of Missouri, has been appointed to
succeed her within the next ten days.
'Sister Barbara took up the work
in El Paso as superior of the Sisters
Of Loretto about eleven years ago and
has become very popular with the peo-
pie of Ell Paso during that time. The
parents love her and the children
fairly worship her. She is kind and
gentle and lovable and numbers ner
friends by the hundred, not alone in
Catholic circles, but among the Prot
tesants of the city.
when she took charge of the work
here it was conducted in the original
little two-storv brick building on north
FL Paso Street She has seen it grow
until this school has had it's capacity
more than doubled by the erection OF
a handsome three-story brick bui,ding
| and In addition has seen the work ex-
tend until the school has jurisdiction
over two other schools in the city
one in the Mexican Catholic Church
erected about two years ago and one
in the school on Myrtle Avenue.
"All of the Sisters engaged in the
work in El Paso love her as well as
the children and their parents and 1t
was with sigh of regret that one of
the Sisters admitted yesterday after
noon to Herald man that Sister Bar
bara must go.
"She added: We certainly hate to
see her 60 and there were Volumes
in the way she said it; the expression
was from deep down in her heart.
Sister Barbara takes charge of
larger school at Santa Fe, boarding
! school with about thirty sisters, in
mates and teachers, while the local
school has only about half that many.
1t is a promotion for her. but she had
come to love the work in Ell Paso and
would have preferred no doubt, to
stay here. A member of an order like
hers, however, like soldier, never
protests nor complains, but goes
where duty calls, and Sister Barbara,
while leaving her Ell Paso work with
sadness, will enter upon her work in
Santa Fe with light heart, for, after
all, her work is for humanity and she
can benefit humanity in even larger
degree there than here, as her scope
will be larger
"Sister Lucille, who has been SUI
perior Of the Sisterhood in Santa Fe
for many years, has been placed on
the retired list owing to i'll health.
She is about sixty-seven years OF age
and served her novitiate in the order
in that city and has been stationed
, there almost continuously since"