A Nun Her Friends and Her Order Author:Katharine Tynan Subtitle: Being a Sketch in the Life of Mother Mary Xaveria Fallon : Sometime Superior-General of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin in Ireland and Its Dependencies General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1891 Original Publisher: Kegan Paul Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illus... more »trations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. MARY WARD: HER WORK AND DEATH. MARY sailed for St. Omer on May i, 1606. It was the day fixed for Father Garnett's execution, but the martyr had protested, seeing it was a great people's feast. " What, will they make a May-game of me ? " he said; for the people used to carry in the streets on this day great armfuls of greenery, and the pre- Reformation pleasures of the day had not yet been stamped out. So he was respited to the Saturday following, which was Holy Cross Day. Mary's thoughts were full of him as she sailed over the sea. The place she was bound for had a close and tender association with the martyr, for there was the English College of Jesuits, and thence issued many a one of those whom St. Philip Neri hailed as Flowers of Martyrdom. To this English College came Mary Ward seeking direction, for her mind was in considerable darkness and bewilderment as to where God intended her to be in the religious life. Father Holtby had sent her to one Father William Flacke, the Superior of the Jesuits, but now a strange thing happened. As shestood at the door inquiring for Father Flacke, there came into the porch a certain Father George Keynes, who peremptorily took at once her direction in his own hands. He bid her straightway to the convent of Poor Clares, there to be received as an out- or lay- sister, adding that she was there expected and all things made ready against her coming. Then be...« less