The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 10, Ed. 1, Saturday, October 1, 1904 Page: 2 of 36
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311 THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
The Indian School of the Sisters
of Loretto.
Bernalillo New Mexico.
Just one year ago did the "City of Holy Faith" celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of the coming of the Loretto Sis-
ters to the "wild and woolly west." Gladly did the humble
zealous daughters of Rt. Rev. Charles Nerinckx respond to
the earnest appeal of Rt. Rev. J. B. Lamy to assist in the ar-
duous missions of New Mexico. There indeed the harvest
was great and it was meet that the first religious congrega-
tion founded in the United States should be the pioneer
teacher of the Red Man in modern New Mexico.
The first trip across the Santa Fe Trail was not the last
nor the most trying. That made in sixty-seven has been im-
mortalized by the pen of the sweet singer Eleanor Donnelly.
The caravan was attacked by five thousand Indians and one
of the Sisters the youngest of the group died of fright and
was buried on the plains.
The deeds of heroines are not often heralded by blast of
trumpet and so that initial quarto of holy souls worked silent-
ly steadily on sowing the seed of virtue and religion in the
heart of the Red Man's child. The savage Indian of the
plain as well as the more docile Pueblo; gradually yielded
to the gentle influence of the Lorettines. Slowely but surely
the mustard seed shot upward until it loomed a majestic
tree whose branches extend to all parts of the Territory. Dear
to the heart of every Sister of Loretto are the souls of God's
little ones; but thrice dear are the Indian children despoiled
as they are of the earthly heritage. Cruelly dark and drear
would those little lives be were they not cheered and en-
lightened by the torch of Christian charity; and yet our hearts
swell with indignation as we say it this last this greatest
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