Five Wounds, M.S.C., Sister Mary of the, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1852 July 22

Blanc has heard of a child who was put into the kitchen of the orphan asylum during the epidemic and whom the Sisters Marianites of the Holy Cross brought to the orphans' "Ouvroir ". Sister had told Mr. Layton of her desire to rent a room where she could gather all the abandoned children like this. The word reached the mayor who sent her $83?. She took two children from the ouvroir and a woman to care for them. The two children died at the end of a few months leaving her $52 of this gift. She asked the Father Superior for permission to use it for abandoned children and he granted it. She also talked to Father Napoleon Joseph Perché, whom she saw as extraordinary confessor, of the need to rent a small house not far from the asylum for $6 a month. The same evening Layton asked if she would take two orphans which a Protestant minister wanted to send with a sum of $50. The next day Sister Francis Regis, S.C. said she had several more orphans to place if she would take them. In less than 4 or 5 days, she has 12 or 14 children with 4 poor mothers, and one and another have brought her almost enough to support all. When she told the Father Superior, he said she had gone too far without Blanc's authorization. She did only as God seemed to ask of her. So she submits it all to Blanc hoping that he will bless this little group supported at so little expense. :: VI-1-d A.L.S. French 2pps. and Envelope 4to.