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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 25

Neither the Capuchins nor the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul left Alexandria during the bombardment. Many of the wounded were rescued by the Sisters at the risk of their lives ; and the monks fearlessly walked through the streets trying to lessen the sufferings of the fallen, or, where that was hopeless, administering the consolation of religion.