Pioneer Educator, Visionary Woman of FaithA woman of vision, courage, and faith-this is the story of Mother Mary Ann Aloysia Hardey, the first American daughter of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Born in Baltimore just before the War of 1812 and raised in Louisiana, she emerged as a pioneering Catholic educator and leader during a time of great upheaval-slavery, civil war, and westward expansion.Guided by deep prayer and unwavering conviction, she establis...

This book consists of fifty-two Sections, fifty of which were written for ‘The Sunday School Times’ in comment upon the International Lessons of 1909. Each is complete in itself; but the subjects were chosen so as to work together into a series of typical pictures of the life, the teaching, and the development of the early Church. The growth of the Church was determined by progressive revelation to the earliest Christians through the indwelling Spirit, and by clearer comprehension on their...