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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 26, 17 October 1884, Page 20

The devotion of which the Sisters of Charity daily give proof has just been ennobled by a, new name lo be added to the list of their martyrs. Sister Macedonia of the Order of St. Vincent de Paul has succumbed to the plague while caring for the cholera patients at T° j 9 n ' L J h I cc otber boly women > among them tbe lady superior, died by the dread disease. M. Edouard Herve writes of these humble heroines of Christian duties : " Noble daughters ! They avenge, in a dignified manner, the base insults and ignoble persecutions of which their Order has been the object. They die for those who outrage them, who chase them away, who empty over them the vials of their hate. But no. We do wrong in speaking of vengeance. The heroism of the Sisters of Charity, finds its inspiration in hiaher regions and purer sources. Between them and their peraecujjlttfth.e dutince is too great to speak of revenge or even of pardon.Wjhfir.do not even see them, for they, gaze upward^and the latter are%elow."