. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . for death. BishopWood visits the hospital and administers the sacrament of soldier who was saved from the stocks. A veterans tribute. As stated in the previous chapter many car-loads ofwounded soldiers were conveyed from Gettysburg to theSatterlee Hospital in Philadelphia. Sister Mary Gonzaga, who was in charge of this in-stitution, deserves specialmention in connection withher work during the war. Ifnobility of character, earnest-ness and purity of purpose,great natural exe
. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . for death. BishopWood visits the hospital and administers the sacrament of soldier who was saved from the stocks. A veterans tribute. As stated in the previous chapter many car-loads ofwounded soldiers were conveyed from Gettysburg to theSatterlee Hospital in Philadelphia. Sister Mary Gonzaga, who was in charge of this in-stitution, deserves specialmention in connection withher work during the war. Ifnobility of character, earnest-ness and purity of purpose,great natural executive abil-ity, together with unaffected SISTER GONZAGA. , -, , .... ■,, n piety and humility tell foranything, this Sister will rank high in the bright galaxyof self-sacrificing women whose lives have illumined thehistory of Catholic Sistershoods in the United her golden jubilee, April 12,1877, she couldeven then look back over a series of years in the courseof which she has been school teacher, nurse. Mother Su- (1). The interesting event took place on April 12. 1S77.(144). SATTERLEE HOSPITAL. 145 perior, head of a large orphan asylum and the executiveof a great military hospital, where nearly 50,000 sickand wounded soldiers received the self-sacrificing atten-tion of a staff of sixty or seventy Sisters of Gonzaga, just before her death, was creditedwith being the oldest living Sister of Charity in theUnited States. She spent the tranquil evening of abusy and eventful life as the Mother Emeritus of Orphan Asylum, one of the magnificent char-ities of the City of Brotherly Love. This venerable womans name in the world was MarjAgnes Grace. She came from a respected Baltimore fam-ily, being born in that city in 1812, She was baptized inSt. Patricks Church, and there and in a Christian homereceived her preliminary religious training. In Decem-ber, 1823, she was sent to St. Josephs Academy, Emmits-burg, Md., where she proved to be a m
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