May 11

“However she appears before me in these, the bright working years of her life, it is always with the same gentle manners and movements, never too hurried or too important to attend to other peoples’ affairs, however tedious or trivial, or to give a helping hand when it was wanted.”

From Life of Annie Keary

“What struck me then, and often afterwards, was the way in which he took apparently a special interest in whatever he was at the time attending to. . . . He would come in from the parish, and sit down in the study, and talk with his whole mind given to the subject; and then, when called out, as he constantly was, to see some poor or rich persons, he would immediately give them his entire attention, and return to resume the conversation as if he had never been interrupted. I think that it was this, and his sweet serenity of temper, that made the children so fond of him.”

From Life of C. Lowder