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At the end of the year, Mother St. Mathilde (1814-1971) arrived  accompanied by Sister St. Damian Dejan, Sister St. Appolinaire and Sister St Gregoire Connolly. They left Paris for Southampton on 17th September 1852 on the “S. S. Bentinck”, a fine boat for that time and making its first voyage.

They headed towards Gibralter and then to Malta, where they arrived at noon on 28th September 1852. The missionaries continued their journey to Alexandria and later took an Egyptian Government boat through the Nile to Cairo, which is 170 km distant from Alexandria. They journeyed across the desert in a caravan from Cairo to Suez. Here, they took a little steam-boat to the “Indostan”, which was too big to come right into port, even to Suez. The “Indostan” was larger than the “Bentinck” but older and not so beautiful.

They then traveled to Aden and reached Ceylon on 20th October 1852. There, they boarded “the Singapore”, narrow for its length but sailed beautifully to Penang. They arrived in Penang on 28th October 1852 and began work immediately. They wrote day to day diaries, which have been archived. Their entries tell of the happenings of their life in Penang.

As the number of children increased, the attap bungalow Church St. became crowded. Mother St. Mathilde set about finding new premises.