The grave marker of some of Toronto's first B.V.M. sisters in the basement crypt of St. Michael's Cathedral.
They [religious] live more purely, they fall more rarely, they rise more speedily, they are aided more powerfully, they live more peacefully, they die more securely, and they are rewarded more abundantly.
– St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Et audivi vocem de caelo dicentem "Scribe 'Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur. Amodo iam dicit Spiritus ut requiescant a laboribus suis; opera enim illorum sequuntur illos.' "
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