The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-17
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Honors for Mother Superior
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Golden Jubilee rs Arranged
Reverend Mother Mary Lawrenoe
Came Here I'm Keeping Of
Vows Half Century Ago.
Beloved woman Has Been Treat.
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ORION MondRy Advortiser)
On Thursday Of this week, Reverend
Mother Mary Lawrence, Superior OF
the convent o. ire sacred Hearts, "a
Joining the Catholic Cathedral Fort
street, will look backward fifty years
into tho past and think of the day,
March, 40. 1854 gwhen. she, with nine
pthen sisters and four priests, landed
on the beach Rt ME foot Of Fort street
| from the good. ship r. w. Wood Us 4 \
Mother Mary Lawrence istnow isev;
Fatyrthree yenrspf age and forahah a
/ century she has resided bin Honolulu,
but time has dealt Sentlt With her, for
today she il in good health, lohlJ a faw
silver threads mark athe .passage, of tho
years over her devoted head, her eye
Is bright, and keen, her .step hight and
firm, HEX manner serene and anable
md ihqr ganeral ,aiE .aPrishtly, Ssiyaeieus
Rpa. hnsipesall keaeeess.sr Il w te.
Tho present superior AZ ltsie third
head, An, direct spceesaisn Of she Com
vent ef the Sacred Hearts, whose, hand
and heart bRvc,. with rare core, jlayo-
tiQn and grace guided this oimRortRnt
Institution of learning in sHonolAln
since Il was frst established in the fifs.
ties. home many Of Honolulu s most
prominent women Of today cali their
Alma Mater.
Hesitates to Tell OF Self.
cit seems to me but yesthrday when
| i landed in Honolulu, said Mother
Mary Lawrence, when a representative
Of The Advertiser, accompanied by the
Reverend Father Valentin, called on
her at tho convent. IL required con.
siderable urging by the reporter and
priest to induce the good Mother to
talk Of her life in the Honolulu which
she has known and been intimately
identified with for the past half cen
tury.
8Dear me, but I do not like 70 talk
for publication, |" continued the good
Mother and really, il is not necessary,
4 is IT.
taWe slanded in Honolulu on the
Feast of st. Joseph, March 10, 1864,
and walked up the narrow little road,
/ which is now Fort street, to these
grounds and since that day here ! have
been in the fnlfilment Of ~ vows.
81 can well remember at the time
Of the landing Of seeing our party
surrounded by many dear tiny little
| urchins, many Of them almost naked,
who bent their backs and, with won
dering glances turned upward, naively
tried to peer into our faces through
the wells of religiepse which we wore.
Few Survivors Of Party. A.g
Gin my party there arrived in Hon
olulu ten sisters and four priests-Sis-
ters Bellina, who was the superior Of
the party for the voyage; Theodore, a
musician; Matilda, still living and sew
enty nine years of age; Mary STAINS
laus, Germaine, Euphrosine, Gudnla,
i ANA, Josephine and myself. Sisters
A Anna and Josephine are also still alive.
J, 'sThe priests were Father papien,
who died twenty-five years ago next
month at the Settlement on Molokai;
Clement, Christian and Iievin, all Of
whom have gone 70 their Reverb. n,
Il 1--WE went aboard the ship II. w,
Wood la Bremen Harbor, Germany, on
/ All Saints Day, November j, 1863,
and sailed a week later. We were on
the ship l40 days, l33 of which were
mt sea. We made the trip from Bremen
and passed within sight Of the Islands
of Cape Verde and this was the last we
saw of land during the long trip, ex-
cept when we rounded rough ,0ld Cape
Horn. until we sighted the Hawaiian
Islands. (.
l. Join Sisters Already Here.
| "When we reached Honolulu there
were already ten Sisters here, who had
arrived here May A, 1859, in charge Of
Mother Superior Maria Joseph, the
4 first head Of the Convent of the Sacred
Hearts of Honolulu, The first party Of
Busters received an almost royal. wei,
come. King sKamehameha Nv was
then on the throne and, at bis com
mand, the royal carriage was sent TO
the beach and the good sisters all piled
in and were driven. hero through large
and curious crowd OF spectators.
l The second head of the convent
was Mother Superior Judith, who pass
ed away q few years ago and whom
suceeededss When we arrived here the
head of the Catholic Church in the Ha.
waiian Islands, was, Bishop Louis Mai
I.Pret, who passed to his reward in 1882.
Oh forgot, Sisters Anna and Gndula
Were own sisters. The former is still
alive, " are Josephine and Matilda,
and THOSE, beside. myself, are the only
survivors Of the ten who arrived in
Honolulu fifty years ago this coming
ThursdAy.''
| Joined Order at Barry Age.
Mother Superior Mary Lawrence was
born at Antwerp, Belgium, in Novem.
Der, l84O, and at the age of twenty
two professed in Paris, France, joining
the Order of the Sisterhood of the Sa-
cred Hearts. She celebrated her sew
enty'third birth Anniversary last No,
,vemben M 4I i1s sts.f .i
In honor OF the golden Jubilee of the
arrival here of Reverend Mother Mary
Lawrence an entertainment will be
given by the pupils at the Sacred
Hearts Convert, Fort street, this af,
tetn9an, beginning at haIfpast one
o'clock, when the following musical
and literary program will be rendered:
Overture - HuntsmRn's Luck o.
LOWS piano, Misses O. Duvauchelle,