The Holy Family Sisters of San Francisco

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Excerpt from The Holy Family Sisters of San Francisco: A Sketch of Their First Fifty Years, 1872 1922 The Sisters of the Holy Family have passed heir golden years of Jubilee and to-day send forth to their friends and admirers this volume which tells so eloquently the story of the toils, of the labors, of the sacrifices of the days that are gone. Kavanagh in gathering together the thousand details of the half century has done for us a work of great merit, and in touching the narrative with his own fire, his own zeal, his own love has given us a book worthy of himself and worthy of his subject. We feel always that the work of the Sisters has been so known to all, in and about San Francisco, that no words can add to their praise, nor heighten the esteem in which they are held. But we want our children to know something of the great deeds of the great women who laid the foundations of this mighty work and who carried it on until it has become the pride of our City and of our State. We know full well that only a small part of the deeds of our Sisters are recorded here, that many a great conquest is left unwritten, many a mighty victory is seen by God alone. Their life Is verily "hidden with Christ, " and His eye only knows their prayers, their vigils, their mortifications, His eye only sees their early risings, their great fidelity to a rigid rule, their patience in trial, His eye only has knowledge of their victory over self, of their sacrifice of all human consolation, that they may give pure hearts to Him to whom they have consecrated their love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.