FUNERAL OF A SISTER OF MERCY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 32, 2 September 1871, Page 14

FUNERAL OF A SISTER OF MERCY.

An announcement was recently made of the death of a Sister of Mercy, St Stanislaus Joseph, who had gone from Wellington to Nelson, for the good of her health. In reporting the death and funeral, the "Nelson Colonist" says: —She came from Wellington two or three months since, for a change of climate, as a last remedy to her Jong illness. She died on August 17th. From that day until the following Sunday (the day of her funeral) a good many persons went to see her where she lay. On Sunday morning Parochial Mass was said at'eight o'clock, by the Rev Father Garin. At eleven, the corpse was taken (with the ceremonies of the Church) from the into the Church, where it was deposited until the hour of interment. It was borne from the Convent and from the Church by ten young girls dressed in white. A solemn Requiem Mass was sung by the Rev Father Chareyre and St Mary's choir, the building being crowded. After mass, Father Chareyre delivered an address, explaining the words " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins"—[i Macch xii ch, 46 v. Up to two o'clock in the afternoon the body of the deceased sister was exposed, dressed in her religious dressed on a catafalque surrounded with lights, which had been erected in the centre of the church, all the altar having been very tastefully draped with morning The ceremonial observed on the° occasion of the funeral of the first nun who has died in Nelson since the foundation of the settlement, excited much interest, and St Mary's thronged by a continuous stream" of visitors up to the hour for the removal of the body from the Church. Prior to the appointed hour, Manuka street was filling well with people, and the Church was crowded to excess long before the service began. At two o'clock, the Rev Father Chareyre knelt at the sanctuary with the whole of the congregation, whilst the choir sang the Miserere. An address was then delivered on the words " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." The body, still uncovered, was then carried out of the Church, preceded by the cross-bearers, and acolytes, with tapers ; then came the clergy, followed by the hearse, then the Sisters of the Nelson Convent, the girls attending Mary's school, a number of carriages members of St Mary's congregation, and general public, estimated to be about 2,000, At the cemetry the ceremony was concluded by the blessing of the grave, the reading of the 15th chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians, and a short address explanatory of the same. The coffin was then lowered into the grave with the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, the multitude around showing the most religious respect to the memory of the deceased sister.

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