The Little Sisters of The Poor.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 17 July 1902, Page 29

The Little Sisters of The Poor.

Willing of the Little Sirens of the Poor the Louvuin correspondent of the Catholic Sentinel ' s'i\s • H may interest you to read somi- data concerning lt , brought to light m a recent booklet written by the eh.in iain of their mother house at Si tserviin, France i-Yom thut work we learn that the communiu was founded ,n IX4O ;if Sf Sfi-vair Brittany, by Father Le Pailleur ; that it thL n Z™+ 27 £ houses scattered £,°55. out . Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, America, and that it shelJn r n/5? d su PP llCs th « daily Wants of 40,000 aged people. Whence, may you ask did the means come from to build all these houses '> To ho-u d and clothe all their inmates whence do the means come from > |' M)IU tne alms, and from these onl\ , which the, good Sisters go aiound nathcnnij every day To each band * nic fi Father Le Tailleur sent out to ei<>ct a new home he hnaiuibly gn\i> 10 cents and his blessing Weighted with that wealth, the Little Nisteis started on them mission. I ha\e told \ou with what success Thoy dispose of no fixed revenues , they ha\e no endowed rooms (v bed's ; their old people and they li\e on what is cUnly gi\ ( .,i them on t heir rm]nf ] s Jlie bmad which Christian charity bestows upon i hem they divide lust among their di.imcs, and of what is left they make then, own meals Mo\ed with pity and admiral ion in the j)resence ot siuh de\ouon, a Wealth\ (Mtl/eu o| ()) leans ihici' ofTered to the .LnUe Nm, IS , ( „,,,„: tal ol \\h,(h 11,,j \ejih nit.iesl sliould sulhce In keep nji at It asi one hoU'-r Hit hoiil il.llh <•<) II ,-< t mt , '|- nc Si^fen runse.l, si\ ing •We „, L . t } u , daughtcis of ]'i n \ nhMite we U nnol K'^'J n|) being such •tte must ( ontinui- 1 ( > 111 1 \ c tiom dail\' alms The Hieat J'.Miop of Oilcans, Pupaiiloii p, 111 -i "-peer h made before (lie Fiench Pai h.iiiK lit . nil ni inned tins answri to the [jlainhls of the assembly In the Ijnited States the 'Little Sisteis ha\e .'*!) homes and 8.100 jnmales in tlie.se homes Neither m Amenta nor elsiuheie do they make distinction on account of ieligion or nationality but ie<ei\e under tlieir hospitable roots all the destitute old people they can accommodate Father .Leroy's book infoims us that m New Ot leans one of the two homes' there sheltered at one tmio old folks of IS (hnetent nadotialities Pi oni IS countries of tho Hlobe these poor people had gone to the United States to gadiei Wealth, and they had gat hoi ed iiiimm,\ and hunger until then; old a^> had entitled them to a home with the Little Sisters of the Poor.