Venerable Philippine Duchesne: A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of the Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart in America
By G. E. M.
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Venerable Philippine Duchesne - G. E. M.
G. E. M.
Venerable Philippine Duchesne
A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of the Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart in America
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066130589
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I
VOLUNTEERS FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONS
CHAPTER II
FIRST SCHOOLS IN THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER III
TRIALS AT FLORISSANT
CHAPTER IV
ST. MICHAEL'S ESTABLISHED
CHAPTER V
SERIOUS CROSSES
CHAPTER VI
MISSION TO THE POTTOWATOMIE INDIANS
CHAPTER VII
AFFECTION FOR MOTHER BARAT
CHAPTER VIII
LAST DAYS
CHAPTER IX
SOME FRUITS OF HER WORK
PREFACE.
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There have been many heroic figures in the history of American Catholicity. The sowing of the faith in our beloved land was not accomplished lightly. Anguish of soul and weariness of body were required of our pioneers, no less than of those of other lands. Our predecessors in this portion of God's vineyard left home and kindred and friends and cast themselves on a strange shore, wanderers for God's cause, giving their lives in labor and anguish of spirit, that the glad tidings of salvation might be spread far and wide.
Some of these folk were martyrs in very truth. Through the mercy of Christ their heart's blood has sanctified our soil. Others by living their length of days in the midst of privations and sorrows, that Christ might be known and glorified, fell little short of the martyrdom of blood itself. The memory of these still lives, enshrined in hearts that love them for their tireless zeal and their dauntless courage. Of such pioneers was the Venerable Philippine Duchesne, a truly valiant woman, to whom the American Church owes a debt of gratitude too great for payment.
The following pages are too few to give more than a glimpse of her heroic labors, but they have caught inspiration from their subject, and something, too, of her fragrant piety. No one will read them without admiration for one who was so weak and yet so strong, so humble, and yet so daring in work for God.
Mother Duchesne has a lesson for this age of softness and indolence. She has shown us the way to heroism and offers us motives for entering thereon. For this gratitude is due. This sketch is conceived in a spirit of thankfulness, a tribute of appreciation that will speak a clear, forceful message to sad hearts and selfish hearts and timorous souls, inspiring all with great ideals and holy ambitions to do a mite for the leader, Christ.
R. H. T.
CHAPTER I
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VOLUNTEERS FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONS
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In the early annals of the Catholic Church in this country, no name stands more preeminent than that of the Venerable Philippine Duchesne. She was one of the first, and altogether the greatest, among the spiritual daughters of the Blessed Madeleine Sophie Barat, so well known as the Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart. The pioneer of that Institute in the New World, it was in the midst of sorrow, and penury, and strenuous toil, that she cast the seed of the harvest whose plentiful sheaves are carried with joy by those who have come after her. She was a valiant cooperator in the work of the Catholic missionaries during the early part of the last century, and American Catholics can scarcely fail to be interested in her story.
She was born in Grenoble, France, August 29, 1769, the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte. Her father, Pierre François Duchesne, was a prosperous lawyer, practising in the Parliament, or law court of Grenoble, the capital of the Province of Dauphiny, while her mother, Rose Perrier, belonged to a family of wealthy merchants of the same city. Pierre François Duchesne had adopted the false teachings of Voltaire and his school, but his wife was very pious, and carefully brought up her