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Show RELIGION ATpATRIOTISM. Patriotic and Spiritual Sacrific Are Growths From the Same Roots. The late Mother Julia, American provincial pro-vincial of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur in America, had three brothers in the Union army during the civil war. One of thes, as we learn from an extremely ex-tremely interesting sketch of Mother Julia contributed to the Rosary Maga zine iui January Dy juna C. Walsh, "died at Lookout mountain: one was made a surgeon, and a third, Stephen, achieved fame, first as a lieutenant of the Tenth Ohio 'the bloody Tenth and later by recruiting a regiment at Hamilton, the Sixty-first, with which he served as colonel and was afterward promoted general." This interesting fact recalls others in line. From the very beginning of the history of the United States there has been the close bond of innumerable kindred ties between be-tween the peaceful inmates of Catholic cloisters and the enrolled defenders of our country's flag. The daughter of General Ethan Allen of revolutionary fame became a Catholic and a hospital nun of St. Joseph. The Visitation convent con-vent at Georgetown. D. C. had many a real "daughter of the revoltuion." The daughters of Commodore Jones and General Winfield Scott, to speak only of two eminent soldiers at a later stage of our history, were nuns in this same convent. The annals of St. Joseph's, Emmitsburg, Md.. and all the convents of later date than these two pioneers, have records of not less patriotic interest. inter-est. What is the significance of these things.' Simply that the patriotic and the spiritual sacrifice are kindred acts growths from the same root or, as in the case of Mother Julia, that the more fervent the Catholic faith in a family, the more fervent its patriotism? patriot-ism? Boston Pilot. |