Purgatory
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TO THE GRACIOUS MEMORY OF MY DEARLY-BELOVED SON, REV.
FRANCIS X.
SADLIER, S.J. WHOSE TENDER DEVOTION TO THE Souls in Purgatory
LED HIM
TO TAKE A DEEP AND ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE PROGRESS OF THIS WORK,
BUT
WHO WAS NOT PERMITTED TO SEE ITS COMPLETION, BEING CALLED
HENCE,
SCARCELY THREE MONTHS AFTER HIS ORDINATION, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
MONTH
CONSECRATED TO THOSE Holy Souls, November 14th, 1885.