The Franciscan Sisters are in charge of their charity Hospital of St. Mary' s which has become too contracted for the work. A new Hospital of St. Agnes is now being erected in the southern part of the city. The order has suffered from calumnies in print against the Superior, Mother Agnes, by a former member of her community who was dismissed. Mother Agnes wants to reprint Donnelly's "Rhyme of the Friar Stephen" printed in the Ave and sell it for the new hospital. Father F. Pila asked Donnelly to send the printed slip. He is anxious that the Italian nuns be brought before the public in the touching extremity of their want to the confusion of the bad government under whose rule the religious of Italy have suffered so much. :: X-2-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.