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    310 LA- SCEUR ROSALIE.

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    They contemplated a second operation , to take place In the early spring . But in the inonth of February the blow so long * dreaded

    fell with the suddenness of a thunder-bolt upon Paris and upon the . A sharp attack of pleurisy proved too niiich for the frame

    poor which had withstood _& fty years of incessant labor ; and at the age of sixty-nine La Soeur Rosalie sank quietly , and , at the last ,

    painlessly away . As the cure of Saint Medard , called suddenly by her terrified household , Littered by her bed-side the last prayers for the

    dying , she made the sign of the cross and murmured a few inarticulate words which " sounded like the echo of an inward prayer , " fell

    into a lethargy from -which she never woke , and the next morning , within twenty-four hours from the time when from her bed she

    had been giving active orders about the poor , she lay dead within her cell . When the news spread through Paris a general cry of

    grief arose in households of every class ; people cried in the streets , and the scene around her corpse , _-when friends who had come to

    inquire after her indisposition found she would never greet them more , was painful beyond description . The day following her

    death they laid her in tlie chapel , in the simple state which befitted her modest and honorable life . They dressed her in lier

    costume of Sister of Charity , her rosary on her arm , the crucifix between her hands "which were crossed upon lier breast . Her

    features wore their usual expression , heightened and sweetened by the lovely spiritual calm which death sets as a last seal upon a

    holy life . For two long days , from clawn to evening , came the le who had Joved her to behold her once more . The whole

    peop Faubourg Saint Mareeau streamed in one solemn file towards the house in the Rue de _TEpee-de-Bois . The workmen , their wives ,

    and their little children , ( the aged and the sick were carried thither , ) all _walked past the bier , kissing her feet and hands , and begging

    for little souvenirs _,, a trifle of her dress , anything which she had touched or which had belonged to her . In that noisy " quarter

    reigned a profound silence , and for those two days , though the poorest peopleused to daily helpall crowded to the Maison de Secours ,

    no one begged . , The wonderful , scene presented Iby her funeral we described in the opening pag'e of this short memoir ; and the

    traveller to Paris may find the grave at ihe extremity of the Cimitiere du Mont Parnasse , where every day , but particularly on Sundays ,

    may be seen poor people kneeling and praying Iby the last restinglace of their friend . Her old motherwith whom she had kept

    up p a constant and loving correspondence , , died on the 2 nd of February .. in the Pays de Gex at the extreme age of eighty-eight , and the

    news reached Paris on the very morning of her daughter ' s funeral ; , increasing the universal emotion of the day . Madame Rendu ,

    who dwelt amidst her family , clear and vigorous to the last , placed her greatest joy and pride in the virtues and almost saintly

    _repiitation of her eldest child , and died p ronouncing the name of I _^ Soeur Rosalie . *

    310 La- Sceur Rosalie.

    310 LA- SCEUR ROSALIE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/22/