 |  FEAST OF ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
FOUNDING DAY OF THE SOCIETY 1846
DERBY, ENGLAND
Cornelia arrived in Derby with three other women and her two younger children, Adeline and Frank. It was six years to the day since Pierce had asked Cornelia to agree to a separation so that he could explore becoming a Roman Catholic priest.
The Society was founded on a breaking heart.
–Mother Mary Francis Bellasis and other early biographers who quoted Cornelia |