. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . revented his saying more. Yes, I said. She is praying for you and how glad she will be to knowthat you have seen a priest. Would you like me to write to her?Yes, I would, he gasped. Soon Father McDermott arrived. They began their in-terview. I hurried away and busied myself with other a short time Father called me and said, Sister, Im going tobaptize this man. Again I stood sponsor to another Christiansoul. Father then gave him Holy Communion, enroll
. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . revented his saying more. Yes, I said. She is praying for you and how glad she will be to knowthat you have seen a priest. Would you like me to write to her?Yes, I would, he gasped. Soon Father McDermott arrived. They began their in-terview. I hurried away and busied myself with other a short time Father called me and said, Sister, Im going tobaptize this man. Again I stood sponsor to another Christiansoul. Father then gave him Holy Communion, enrolled him inthe brown scapular and anointed him. It was a touching andbeautiful scene. How sweetly and simply the man, in a strainedwhisper repeated after Father, My Jesus mercy, I am sorry formy sins. I will never, sin again. One evening Father Barrett stopped to inquire about the patients. I informed him that there were several Catholic boys who wished to see him. So he started out on his visitation. Final- ^ly, I led him to No. 43, a blue-eyed, red-haired, ruddy-complex- ioned man, who, I made sure was an Irish Catholic. Father. .^^;; Scenes in Lourdes Park fSjsTKES Again Become Nursks 241 epoke to him, but soon returnefl saying: That man is not aCatholic. At least, he says he isnt. What religion is markedon his brief? We looked it up and much to my amusementand chagrin, we found that he was a mason. Three weeks rolled by, the mason received his was very happy to depart and said that he felt no sorrow inleaving that flu bed. Two weeks more passed. One day FatherBarrett was passing through the base hospital and he noticed hissandy-colored mason. He had contracted the fatal spinal menin-gitis. Father stopped, and spoke to him. During the conversa-tion the man expressed his admiration for the work the sistershad done. Father asked him if he had ever known any of hisbrother masons to risk their lives as those sisters had done. Hereplied, No never. Those nuns must have
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