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and furniture to be sold to the public. By 1856, the needs of the orphanage were so great that they
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Within six months, though, the two canonesses sought the permission of the bishop to return to France. Perhaps this was due to the hardships of life on the frontier, dealing with an unfamiliar language and a historically severe winter
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