07/27/2022
FROM THE ARCHIVES
MONDAY, July 25, 1864.
FINALLY, the day has come for those waiting in Louisville to rejoin the two sisters who have been working hard to prepare their new home on the farm at New Bedford.
Leaving behind to teach for the school year in Louisville Sisters Josephine Mougel, Margaret Colson and Alix Genin along with one of the orphans, Euphrasie Boussard, the other sisters and orphans set out early this Monday morning with their luggage. How they travelled, whether by wagon or a combination of train and wagon, is not recorded.
Fr. Begel relates that the travelers, the four professed sisters, Sisters Marie Joseph Gaillot, Angel Balland, Odile Philbert, and Mary of the Angels Maujean, and two novices, Sisters Virginie Benoit and Mary of Jesus Boussard, and Josephine André and Josephine Gerardin, the other two orphans, arrived late that same day at the farm in New Bedford to join Sisters Anna Tabourat and Beatrix Champougny. Together they will establish the motherhouse and create a home for orphans day-by-day.
DRAWING by Sr. Mary-Joanna Huegle depicts a father bringing his young daughters to live with the sisters.