Obituary Record

Sister Stanislaus died Monday at 10 o'clock from the effects of a recent spell of grip. Deceased has been at St. Joseph's Convent at the Bay for about fourteen days and was sent across the lake with the hope that a change of air would result in a benefit to her poor health. Mother Albino, late superior of the Baton Rouge Convent, arrived Friday and remained with Sister Stanislaus until the end came. Sister Stanislaus expressed a wish three years since that when her hour came she prayed it might be at Bay St. Louis. The deceased was a native of France and has been in America about thirty years and had been a religieuse several years before she left her native country. When she first came to America, she spent three years at the Bay St. Louis convent, after which she departed for the novitiate at New Orleans, where she remained up to fourteen days ago.

She was dearly beloved by all the sisters, the people who knew her best, and by those she so industriously educated. A few years ago the novitiate at New Orleans began to take little boys to the school and this sister had charge of them, as well as the little girls. She was so fond of her children and so devoted to her Christian duty that she tried to teach soon after her first illness. The Mother Superior, however, saw her condition and finally persuaded her to stop her labors until she grew stronger.

Sister Stanislaus was buried Tuesday morning after a solemn high mass at the church of Our Lady of the Gulf. --Picayune special

Source: Sea Coast Echo 03-13-1897