INSTITUTE OF NOTRE DAME DES MISSIONS, CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 35

INSTITUTE OF NOTRE DAME DES MISSIONS, CHRISTCHURCH.

A cable message has just been received at the ■Provincial Mother House and Novitiate of the Institute of . Notre Dame des Missions, Christchurch, announcing, that at the " General Chapter of the Institute, held at Deal, England, the Very Rev. Mother-General (Mother M. St. Raceme) -has been re-elected to that important position; also . that Rev. Mother M. St. Genevieve, a former Provincial of the Institute in New Zealand, and of late- years head superioress of the community in the diocese of Perth, West Australia, has been elected General Econome, and will remain ,at the Mother House in Deal. ■ The beautiful chapel '. attached : to the convent of the Order in Christchurch has been recently enriched by the installation of a Pieta, a magnificent piece of statuary, the figures being life-size. or' the reception of the Pieta ~ a special crypt has been cut out of the wall of the chapel opposite the altar, and altogether the effect is very striking. On the Feast of Our Lady’s Seven Dolors, his Lordship the Bishop, in the presence of the community, solemnly blessed .the Pieta.