 | Rebecca Theresa Reed - 1835 - 142 pages
...books, papers, a lock of her mother's hair, &c., which she brought from Ireland, and kept in her desk. she should prefer hers near the undecayed saint's...the land for that use, and that all the sisters who F 3 luid died had promised to present his request, but had not fulfilled their obligations ; " and,"... | |
 | Justin Dewey Fulton - Celibacy - 1888 - 368 pages
...make." — " Say 011." She expressed a desire to be anointed before death. " On one condition, — that you will implore the Almighty to send down from heaven a bushel of (/old, for the purpose of establishing a college for young men on Bunker Hill." He said he had bought... | |
 | Nancy Lusignan Schultz - History - 2002 - 346 pages
...Bishop Fenwick offering to barter extreme unction in exchange for Sister Mary Magdalene's imploring the Almighty "to send down from heaven a bushel of...of establishing a college for young men on Bunker Hill."102 What finally seems most striking about the narrative is our sense that Reed sees what she... | |
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Yes, my lord ; but, with the permission of our Mother, I have one request to make." They told her to say on. She said she wished to be anointed before death, if his lordship thought her worthy of so great a favour. He said, " Before I grant your request,... 