Mission Helpers, Sister Desales's Report on the 1906 Crisis, 1950s (Part A)

Sister DeSales had been a Mission Helper since the 1890s and was intimately involved in the crisis of 1906. As such she played a significant role in aiding Mother Demetrias in her effort to hold an election in November, 1906. Sr. DeSales compiled this account of events years later, in the 1950s, after both Mother Demetrias and Anna Hartwell had died. Liked to this is a PDF scan of the first half of the report, the second half can be accessed on the following document link.

(NOTE: There are several copies of the document in the collection. The original is printed in black-and-white and has some of Sister DeSales's handwritten notes. However, the copies (lacking these notes) were printed in blue and thus could be scanned more clearly. Some of the pages of the report, however, were missing in the blue-ink copies, and thus pages from the black-and-white original have been used to supplement those missing pages)

The Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart

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1950s