Sisters Celebrate Anniversary At Our Lady Of Peace

By Pam Folse

Sixty-five years ago the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross first came to Vacherie from Merrill, Wisconsin to begin their “Negro Apostolate”, as it was referred to at the time. This weekend a host of the Sisters returned to Vacherie to celebrate that anniversary. The Holy Cross Sisters intended to start a mission in China. Sister Marie Theodosia Laufer was at the motherhouse in Ingenbohl, Switzerland when the matter was being discussed. She told her superiors that there was a need for mission work in the United States. 

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