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Women of Catholicity - Memoirs of Margaret O'Carrol, Isabella of Castile, Margaret Roper, Marie de L'Incarnation, Marguerite Bourgeouys, Eathan Allen's Daughter (Paperback)
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Women of Catholicity - Memoirs of Margaret O'Carrol, Isabella of Castile, Margaret Roper, Marie de L'Incarnation, Marguerite Bourgeouys, Eathan Allen's Daughter (Paperback)
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This is the golden thread interwoven with the noble life-work of an
Isabella of Castile-a princess of great renown in her own and all
succeeding times, on account of the masculine energy of character
which impelled her to high heroic deeds for the glory of God and
the defence of His Church, softened and refined by the gracious
sweetness and womanly tenderness which made all hearts her own.
Turning from this grand and queenly figure we find the same
all-pervading supernatural element in the lovely and loveable
Margaret Roper, the perfect daughter of the saintly Sir Thomas
More, her filial devotion to whom, in circumstances the most
trying, forms the brightest gem in her immortal crown of glory. On
the other hand, we have here Fannie Allen, the great, enlightened
daughter of the infidel Ethan Allen, the sweet odor of whose truly
Christian virtues won all hearts to Christ and brought many of her
relatives and friends to embrace the true faith. In her, we behold
the first scion of the New England stock, the first daughter of the
Puritans, who took the monastic habit and consecrated herself to
God in holy religion for the service of His suffering members-the
Hospital Sister of St. Joseph whose memory is in benediction
amongst her Sisters in religion. Another striking example we have
here in Margaret O'Carroll, an illustrious Irish lady of the
fifteenth century, the daughter, wife, and mother of heroic
chieftains who fought and, in some instances, fell, for their
country and their God. A woman of a princely race, endowed with
rare beauty of person and with all the accomplishments usual at
that time, assisting her brave and pious husband alike in the
government of his principality and in the management of their
temporal affairs, promoting, at the same time, all works of public
utility, -yet, amid all this multip1icity of occupation, finding
time for the exercises of piety and even for the making of
pilgrimages to distant countries-incalculably more of an
undertaking then than now. Truly, the valiant woman of Holy Writ
was this magnificent Irish princess of an elder day Lastly, the
author has placed before us, in life-like reality, the two greatest
women of Canadian-we might say of American history, the celebrated
Ursuline Mary of the Incarnation, not inaptly styled the St. Teresa
of Canada, because of her high and mystical endowments, and the no
less illustrious Marguerite Bourgeoys, the foundress of the great
teaching order known as the Congregation of Our Lady. These two
admirable religious, daughters of France, were not only great in
religion, but great in the management of temporal affairs, wise and
prudent beyond conception, and so eminently practical in the
conduct of all matters of business appertaining to the public
interest that they might be, and, indeed, were considered, the one
in Quebec, the other in Montreal, as the Providence of the infant
colony of New France. Both will, in due time, be raised to the
altars of the Church, and, therefore, scarcely come within the
sphere which the author had designed for her work in these volumes,
viz., that of eminent Catholics, men and women, not canonized
saints, yet whose lives were modelled in the sublime teachings of
the Church. It is, however, on account of the important parts they
played in the history of their adopted country and the benefits
they conferred on their compatriots, that these two remarkable
women are presented to the readers of this volume.
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