Son (Émilie Gamelin) happiness was overshadowed by the successive deaths of two of his children. Her husband himself succeeded a long illness (..) A year plustard, she lost her third child she asked (...) now to charity the consolation of his pain and the use of the treasures of affection and devotion of his heart.
"In this same year (1828)," she wrote in her diary of 1850, Mr. St. Pierre presented me with an image of Our Lady of Sorrows and every day I was praying at the foot of the image. I asked him the courage to bear his cross, and the example of the sacrifices that God sent me into the world. The greatest in those days, was the loss a husband and a darling, I cried every day, I had a heart pierced by a sword of sorrow, and I found other consolation than to meditate on the sorrows of my Mother, with the engraving "(...)
Anything pertaining to the worship of Mary's pain, it was expensive. This devotion which she had drawn so much consolation in the trials of her widowhood, she was eager to instill in (his entourage).
In its last retreat, faithful to the feeling and the same duty she finished a passage on its trials (...) "To be the child of the Mother of Sorrows, is expected to carry the cross this world. So often I come to pray at the feet of this good Mother. I ask him to have pity on me in the trials and tribulations which I am constantly stirred. I'll think it was particularly chosen for his daughter, I am obliged to comfort and honor, his devotion to propagate as much as possible, wherever there will be sisters of charity. " (Journal, 1850)
Mother Gamelin delighted to be given to the protection of Our Lady of Sorrows success of its foundations.
Inspired by the "Bread Providence" and " Life Emilie Gamelin "
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