Jewels from Jane, November 25

"In order to know better the needs of all the works of charity in the Empire and the means for satisfying them, the Emperor called together, in Paris, in 1807, a general chapter of all the Religious Hospitalers of the Empire. The assembly was set for November 27. Long before this date, the Cardinal [Fesch] had gone to Paris and when the time came for the chapter, he wrote to Father Cholleton to attend it.

"Father Cholleton [founder and spiritual director of the Black Daughters] had hardly recovered from an illness that had brought him to the brink of death. He went, nevertheless, at the invitation of the Cardinal; and scarcely had he arrived in the capital, when the fatigue of the journey obliged him to go to bed from which he never arose. On November 25, [1807] two days before the opening of the Assembly, he expired, dying in as saintly a manner as he had lived."

From Mother Saint John Fontbonne by a Sister of Saint Joseph of Brentwood, New York