Abstract
Not often do the makers of history put into writing a record of the deeds for which men of later days hold them famous. They penetrate into virgin lands, build their pyramids, lay their roads, fling out their cities, establish their schools to perpetuate their ideals, and then go on to the great beyond to take the place assigned them by a just but merciful God.|After the manner of the makers of history, and within a single decade of the last century, came three groups of Sisters of Mercy into the Diocese of Kansas City, Missouri, to establish foundations wherein they might carry out the plan of life designed by their holy foundress, Mother Mary Catherine McAuley, and thus perpetuate in the minds of the young whom they were to serve the ideals for which their Divine Spouse lived and died.|And now, more than half a century after the first group came, it is expedient that the fragments of memory be gathered up, "lest they be lost,” and placed in a record wherein men may read of the works of these valiant women.