Webster’s Third Unabridged Dictionary, 1935, defines “doctor” as teacher, with the etymology of the French verb, docere, “to teach” being noted. to Mother Paula-Jéronyme (L’Année Sainte, Vol. Blessed are the eyes which have seen the things that you have seen!įather François Barroise, S.J. This letter is meant to let you know that there are others besides the domestic servants who honor and cherish the master of the house, that is to say, your venerable Father… You must then be a daughter and Religious with a great heart, as your holy Father once wrote to a very courtly lord: “The house of the Visitation has to be a house of daughters with great heart, in order to be daughters of a Father who had a heart that was greater and larger that the diameter of the earth.” Francis de Sales, whom I named, in the presence of your daughters yesterday, ‘ the Prelate of divine love, the Bishop of charity‘.
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