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happiness of' tting him to pr'ay. She taught him hov1 to say
the Rosar;;,r and in a shor't tiue this hal"dened sinner had become
a model penitent. He asked the mother of t girl
whose life he had taken to forgive hiL:; he thanked the
people of Lyttelton who had prayed foX' him, and he faced
::md met the death he had deserved, with such admirable dispas
ions that those who witnessed the sad spectacle realised
the force of Tennyson's claim that-
11Llore t
ngs ar'e wrought by prayer
Than this vrorld dx'e81TIS of. 11
J.iother L. Aloysius is still a member of the Lyttel ton
Community ancl though life's ve
ers have come, lit by a
slanting sun, still her reminiscences of' those early clays
are clear and vivid as
old.
St. l.lar'r' s Convent, Christchurcllj 8)L•_:
The Greymouth foundation prospered so well that on
July 25th, 1894 it v1as strong $Dough - o give a band of Sisters
to st. Llary's pari
, Christchurch v/i:lich had been established by
the persevering ( 1 ) ef:f:'orts of H.ev.
Chesnais, &.ti. and his curate I~ev.
t:n.el' Le Uenant des
Pather> Earnane, S.M.
Five
Sisters of Liercy and a postulant crossed the Alps and on
August 1894 too~\: charge of the pariG.il school, • Mary's, a
fine brj.ck building situated behind the Church and separated
from it by the play-ground. At first the Sisters occu~;iecl a
1. The Cyclopedia of N.Z. Vol. 3 (Ch.Ch. 1903.)