The centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky . surrounding the convent, Protestans as well as Catholics, learned tohonor, even more than they had done before, the white habited nuns of Their labors throughout the epidemic were as incessant as theywere often effective of the happiest results for individual sufferers. Only oneof the community, and that in the fresh out-break of the epidemic in the fol-lowing year, lost her life by the visitation. Sister Mary Theresa Lynch diedwhile attending the sick in the neighborhood in 1834. In later years thebranch establishments of the house, esp
The centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky . surrounding the convent, Protestans as well as Catholics, learned tohonor, even more than they had done before, the white habited nuns of Their labors throughout the epidemic were as incessant as theywere often effective of the happiest results for individual sufferers. Only oneof the community, and that in the fresh out-break of the epidemic in the fol-lowing year, lost her life by the visitation. Sister Mary Theresa Lynch diedwhile attending the sick in the neighborhood in 1834. In later years thebranch establishments of the house, especially that at Memphis, Tennessee,have suffered fearfully from similar visitations. In 1873, while engaged innursing the sick of yellow fever, at Memphis and Pensacola, Sisters M. JosephMcKernan, Martha Quarry, Magdalene McKernan and Dominica Fitzpatrickwere seized with the fever and died. The deaths among the sisters at Memphisin 1878, all from the same cause, were those of Veronica Glose, BernardineDalton, Rose McGary and Dolora REV. ROBERT A. ABELL. CATHOLICITY IN KENTUCKY. 269 CHAPTER XX. THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOSEPH, BARDSTOWN. Bishop Flaget had already passed six years of his episcopal life inKentucky, before any effort was made by him to secure to the diocesea suitable and properly appointed cathedral. Without resources him-self, and charged with the care of a people with whom competencywas a condition of the future, only to be acquired by continuousstruggle, he did not feel that he was warranted in taxing them for evenso much needed an object. He might sooner have undertaken thework, to be sure, had he been willing to burden the diocese with obli-gations to be liquidated in the future. But not the apostle himselfwho has written owe no man anything, had a greater horror of debt thanhe. He might have still hesitated, but for the urgent pleadings of hisclergy, and a few of the better provided among his faithful the instance of these, early in the year 181
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