. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . heschool was continued. Plans were immediately madefor the rebuilding of Saint Agnes and on July 15,1878, work on the new structure was commenced. But before its foundation was laid, the rumorthat the yellow fever had again appeared in theSouth was verified as Memphis saw the first of itsvictims fall. Fear took possession of the city, andits gateways showed a flying people, heedless of theirdestination so long as it took them from the plague-held town. Early in
. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . heschool was continued. Plans were immediately madefor the rebuilding of Saint Agnes and on July 15,1878, work on the new structure was commenced. But before its foundation was laid, the rumorthat the yellow fever had again appeared in theSouth was verified as Memphis saw the first of itsvictims fall. Fear took possession of the city, andits gateways showed a flying people, heedless of theirdestination so long as it took them from the plague-held town. Early in the summer, Mother Alphonsa Yagel,superior of St. Agnes, and a companion, had goneNorth to solicit funds for the rebuilding of herschool. In Quincy, Illinois, she received the news thatthe fever was raging in Memphis, and with hermother-heart shaken by fear for her children, shehastened home. At Nashville, when some of the sis-ters protested against her continuing her perilousjourney, she silenced them with the words: ^^I mustgo to Memphis! My duty is there. I must go bishop has given me permission to return. Imust go!. CICO <! O V2 Sisters Nurse Yellow Fever Victims 133 Never was a home-coming sadder than the oneMother Alphonsa found! She reached Memphis atfour o^clock in the afternoon of August 16th. Thesame evening, Rev. J. A. Kelly, 0. P., anointed fourof her sisters, among them her niecCj Sister VeronicaGloss. As there was no hope for her recovery, Sis-ter Veronica was permitted to make her final vows. On the advice of Father Kelly, Sister MaryThomas OMeara took the orphans who had escapedthe disease, to the asylum in Nashville, where he hadarranged for them to remain until the quarantinewas removed. It was also at his suggestion thatMother Alphonsa assembled the community andcommanded that the delicate members and those in-experienced in the care of the sick should leave thecity, which they did on August 27. Sisters M. Aus-tin Tobin and Magdalen Norton remaine
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