Word: novenae
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...Memphis convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, one hot summer afternoon in 1913, Sister Mary Magdalen (born Mary Hodges) lay waiting for death. Doctors had diagnosed cancer. But Sister Mary Magdalen had begun with other sisters a novena (nine days of prayer) to the Venerable Mary Euphrasia Pelletier who, French-born in 1796, had expanded their Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd establishing 110 houses throughout the world to save fallen women. Sister Mary Magdalen had prayed that she might live to see Mother Mary beatified. Now, suddenly, she felt a flow of strength...
Franciscan order.* In the refectory, brown-robed friars reminded each other last week that years ago-when Princess Maria, little sister of Princess Giovanna, was desperately ill, Giovanna had come to Assisi to make her novena, had sworn that if Maria recovered she, Giovanna, would be married at the tomb of St. Francis under the walls made glorious by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), greatest of "primitive" mural painters...