The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-10-03

Niidpei sunday morning in rolling chair and was
placed tesde my priedieu
All Z, during mass prayed for her with my whole
SOUL Sne never moved. Her white slender fingers
were claped loosely In her lap and she never stirred
ner Hahus. We all went to the rail to Holy Com
Inunlon' ana when | returned to my place and
Do"ed my head IN thanksgiving | felt her tremb-
mig ana heard her softly sobbing | motioned to
an attendant to take her to her room but she shook
iier reao ana would not go until after mass. Short
~ atter breakfast she sent for me and | found her
DrlIlant with happiness and in an ecsacy of joy
=, oh olSterH she cried, I longed so to go to
,Ie savior all during that mass. Ny heart cried to
nm M because couldn't co. but when you came back
from receiving communion / felt he had come to
me- knew he was with you and | worshipped him
g ne ne was so close to felt his presence
Inc ring OF her voice is with me yet. l did not
'''enipt TO repress my tears, and when she begged
me TO instruct her, and declared there was nothing
TO satisfy her soul but the church where Christ him
sell renamed my JOY complete.
DR., James OConnor instructed and baptized
her and she made her first communion in the hos
Pltal chapel Her devotion to the Blessed Sacra-
nent was intense, and as she grew stronger she re-
manned Tor hours before the altar, loving and talk
ing to our Lord,
She had married sister in New York. but
she DID not wish her to be informed of her comb
tlon at hrst Vow she wrote to her and asked her
TO come and visit her. She was tall handsome wo-
man, little older than the actress but extremely
pigoUed. Her manner perfectly courteous but
very frlg1d. We gave her every attention offered
her room near her sister, and, ere long, her cold
ness wore off Her sister could not keep to herself
her new-tound happiness and they had many talks
tCgether at which | was afterwards present. by
their request. DIR. O'Connor whose gracious man
ners were very attractive, did much to smooth away
prejudice All of them had travelled abroad extern
sively and their conversation, beginning on some
thlng they had seen in Europe generally ended on
reIlgIouS SUBJECTS Finally he invited both ladies
to take drive and visit the cathedral a handsome
Gothic structure the pride of the city. The car.
rage came they went several places and finally the
great solemn baslllca was shown to them The sane
tuary lamp ever burning, and the confessionals
greatly impressed the ladies' and when these latter
we're thrown open and the Protestant lady invited to
examine them. the doctor unconsciously overturned
her last prejudice On their return to the hospital
the married lady told me she had always had a
horror OF cOnfessionals and could not reconcile the
idea OF sacrament being connected with the stories
she had heard OF priests and pentents. From that
day she began to read books of instruction. and be-
fore her return to New York asked to be baptized
and was received into the church Both ladies left
the hospital with grateful tears in their eyes and
a warm love for the sisters
Il have had many letters from them since The
actress never went back to the stage, but married
good Catholic gentleman. Her sister was the in
strument of her husbands conversion and their
chlldren's also All lead most beautiful Christian
lives | have not heard from Aimee my first pro-
tege, for long time perhaps she has gone TO heav-
en- If she is surely singing praises to the most
holy sacrament Of the altar. by whose power she was
led to the true faith and the love of our Lord May
his name be blessed forever"
amen" | echoed, as my good religious friend
closed her narrative. "All praise be given to the
most holy and divine sacrament of the Eucharist
the true magnet of souls"