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Show j Forsake All to Care For Lepers. i A touching ceremony took place on Friday last in the chapel of tha Franciscan Fran-ciscan Sisters in the Via Giusti. Rome, w'hen the whole community assembled to bid farewell to seven of its members, who have voluntered to leave for the distant mission of Mozambique, in Africa, as nurses to the leper hospital. Cardinal AIolse-Maselli, papal pro-da-tario, pronounced an eloquent discourse and gave benediction of the blessed sacrament sa-crament after the "Monstra te esse Matrem" and the farewell hymn had been sung by the whole congregation. Of the seven sisters who have thus voluntarily exiled themselves from the world forever two are Portuguese, two French, one English, one Canadian ani one Italian. The same community has a hospital for Italian emigrants in New York and a. hospital for lepers in china. Du.ing the late insurrection in China seven Franciscan sisters suffered suf-fered an awful martyrdom at the hands of the Boxers. |