Sister M. Euphemia Ract-Madoux died in our Community at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, on the 29th day of November, 1881, in the forty-seventh year of her age and the twenty-fifth of her religious profession.
Many years of the religious life of this dear sister were devoted to the instruction of little children, in which she was eminently successful. She labored with great zeal and in the spirit of a true religious. She suffered much from ill-health, during the last year of her life, but remained at ther post, until she had to be helped out of the school room, where she had fainted away. Paralysis set in afterwards, which considerably increased her sufferings and deprived her of the faculty of speech. Her consciousness, however, remained unclouded to the end. Having been provided with the last Sacraments and blessings of the Church, she peacefully expired on the eve of the feast of the Apostle St. Andrew. May she rest in peace. Amen.
From the Necrology
Many of us have wondered about Euphemia for many years. She was born in 1834 to Claude Benjamin and Gabrielle Derripes Ract-Madoux in Chevron, France. She entered in Moutiers, France and was received on July 2, 1856. She was professed on October 10, 1858 in Moutiers. She arrived in Carondelet from Moutiers in 1859 along with Sister Dositheus Grand and Sister M. Regis Duc-Martin. She is buried in Valle Spring Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
Many years of the religious life of this dear sister were devoted to the instruction of little children, in which she was eminently successful. She labored with great zeal and in the spirit of a true religious. She suffered much from ill-health, during the last year of her life, but remained at ther post, until she had to be helped out of the school room, where she had fainted away. Paralysis set in afterwards, which considerably increased her sufferings and deprived her of the faculty of speech. Her consciousness, however, remained unclouded to the end. Having been provided with the last Sacraments and blessings of the Church, she peacefully expired on the eve of the feast of the Apostle St. Andrew. May she rest in peace. Amen.
From the Necrology
Many of us have wondered about Euphemia for many years. She was born in 1834 to Claude Benjamin and Gabrielle Derripes Ract-Madoux in Chevron, France. She entered in Moutiers, France and was received on July 2, 1856. She was professed on October 10, 1858 in Moutiers. She arrived in Carondelet from Moutiers in 1859 along with Sister Dositheus Grand and Sister M. Regis Duc-Martin. She is buried in Valle Spring Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
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