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Excerpt from The Life of Mother Duchesne: Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and Foundress of the First Houses of That Society in America
The scene of her apostolate was Louisiana, a country which was originally colonized by the French, and which has always retained a strange attachment to the land of its forefathers. From a Catholic point of view America is deeply interesting to Europe. From a material point of view alone it would afford a subject of wonder and admiration to the Old World, for it is a marvellous fact that a people which the famous Comte de Maistre described at the beginning Of the century as an infant in its cradle, which numbered only about four millions.
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