"Monseigneur
"I come again to beg pardon for the liberty I take to write to you, but the fear that you did not receive my last letter makes me come again to implore your kindness and to express the desire that I have to make holy profession when Miss Dillon [Sister Frances Joseph Dillon - first American to enter the Congregation] will receive the holy habit. It is true that I still lack five months to have completed my two years' novitiate; but, my Lord, I think that your great generosity will do me the favor of shortening the time, which I find very long. However, if you judge it proper to have me finish my two years, I submit, hoping that the sacrifice will be agreeable to God and serve to prepare me to make a still greater one. But it seems to me that when I have made my vows I will be more pleasing to God and will have more strength to combat and resist the snares the enemy of my salvation will lay for me. So, Monseigneur, be so kind as to examine the wishes of her who recommends herself to your prayers.
Your humble servant,
Sister St. John [Fournier]
Sister St. John came from France as a postulant with Mother Celestine Pommerel in 1837. They arrived at the log cabin in Carondelet on September 10, 1837.
Letter to Bishop Rosati
Translated from the French
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