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Show -u DEATH OF SISTER M. LUCRETIA. The announcement of the death of Sister M. Lucretia has cast a gloom over St. Mary's academy, and caused heartfelt sorrow among the sisters and pupils. During the five years she was in charge of the institution, she had endeared herself not only to the pupils but to their parents and friends. Her life as a religious dates back to 1SG6 when she became a member mem-ber of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. During all these years her labors were confined principally to teaching. Music, instrumental and vocal, was her favorite branch, and in this, she excelled. After serving faithfully for many years at the parent house, St Mary's, Notre Dame, she was chosen as the first superior 'of a new convent founded found-ed in Woodland, Cal., where she worked zealously and devotedly for six years. She was transferred to the Sacred Heart academy, Ogden, in 1895, serving as superior of that growing and prosperous institution for three years. In 189S she took charge of St. Mary's academy in this city, retaining the position of superior up to last January, when she went to the mother house to end, where she began, her life in religion. Amid the sceneries of her school days, Sister Lucretia could look back thirty eight years, when she graduated in '65, and in reviewing those years, which she devoted to the service of the Good Master could find but little with which to reproach herself. The talent entrusted to her was not buried, bur-ied, but fructified each year, and as she saw life slowly ebbing away, she was resigned to God's holy will, and to the end sent loving and consoling messages to her sisters and pupils in Salt Lake. She was the sixth superior who had charge of St Mary's academy since it was founded in 1875. Three of her predecessors. Mother Charles, Sister Liguori and Mother Sienna, are dead. All four were distinguished members of the community to which they devoted de-voted their lives. All were gifted and endowed with more than ordinary ordi-nary talent, and none failed to impress im-press those with whom they came in contact, with the brilliant minds that were hidden beneath the coarse garb of a religious habit Heaven was the object of their self-sacrificing lives. We hope they are united and sharing in the reward for which they sacrificed all earthly pleasures. |