SISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH.



Nazareth she diligently exercised her various talents,
serving at different times as teacher of French, painting
and other subjects at the academy, as instructress and
directress in the normal school of the mother house. At
the time of her death she was one of the assistant Mothers
and secretary general. The grounds, the floral con-
servatory and the museum at Nazareth are testimonies
to her skill, taste, and knowledge. None of Nazareth's
many guests, were he chemist, horticulturist, historian,
geologist, educator, failed to find in this versatile woman
abundant information and intelligent co-operation, if it
were desired. Her conversational powers left a stimu-
lating memory. Vigorous in intellect and learned as she
was, her simplicity was characteristic of the order's best
traditions; her honesty of mind was perhaps no respecter
of persons, yet if it sometimes ruffled the sensitive, her
generous appreciations were ready to acknowledge merit
where she could not unreservedly admire. Exact in her
own observance of "holy poverty," she could plan en-
terprises of great moment for Nazareth; her devotion
to her sisterhood's welfare knew no bounds save the
impossible. Her maxims might well have been: Labor
omnia zvincit and Laborare est orare.
  In June, 1914, the hearts of the community were to
be lightened by an occasion of rejoicing, the golden jubi-
lee of two alumne, Sister Marietta Murphy and Mrs.
Mary Finn Phillips of Nashville, Tennessee. The latter
had been sent to Nazareth as a little girl, remaining till
her graduation. Also as a young girl, Sister Marietta
had been entered at Nazareth, whose novitiate she joined
shortly after graduation. One of the special influences
of her school life was Mother Columba Carroll, whom she
succeeded in 1879 as directress of studies.  During
thirty-four years in this office and as teadher of the ad-
vanced classes, her days and a goodly portion of her



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