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to her guardianship upon earth, and to be required 

 from her hereafter, devoted herself to their early 

 training in the path in which they should walk, so 

 that "in age they might not depart from it." As 

 soon as they could enunciate properly, they were 

 taught their morning and evening prayers ; and that 

 good custom of gathering the little flock to the 

 morning and evening devotions was never omitted 

 in her house ; nor did the family ever retire at night 

 without having first said the Rosary of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary. From this practice sprung that 

 devotion to the Mother of God, which so remarkably 

 distinguished the Bishop through life. 



The example thus set him by his mother; her 

 earnest efforts to instil into his young heart the love 

 of virtue and the horror of sin, made a deep impres- 

 sion upon his pliant mind. In after life he would 

 often say, "I never saw but one, and that one was 

 Bishop Brute, who exhibited so tender a piety as my 

 mother;" and the recollections of the scenes of his 

 childhood's years when he knelt beside that mother's 

 knee, while she placed her hand upon his little head, 

 and taught him to lisp his prayers, could never be 

 blotted from his memory. How often did he thank 

 God for having given him such a mother! and he 

 seemed never to weary of repeating the instances of 

 her kindness, her goodness, and her watchfulness. 

 Frequently, he said, "I owe all that I am to her; I 

 would never have been a Priest, I would never have 

 been a Bishop, but for her;" a tear would gather in 

 his bright eye, and steal over his care-worn cheek, 



