The Society of Marie Auxiliatrice

Extract

It is appropriate that the centenary of the Order and the establishment of an English noviciate should be hailed by such an excellent publication as The Society of Marie Auxiliatrice. Many people are now acquainted with the life of Blessed Marie Thérèse de Soubiran who died an exile from the Order she had founded, and many believe that this last sad phase of her life laid the foundations of that deep and tender charity for the poor and displaced which now marks her Order. This admirable book captures that spirit and lays it before us in a concise letterpress and numerous excellent pictures reproduced in France by the new heliograph process. After a preface containing extracts from the Holy Father's own address to the nuns of the Society on the occasion of the beatification of their foundress we are given a brief history of the Order.