Women’s History Month: Mother Theodore leaves the ship

When Mother Theodore Guerin and her sister-companions arrived in New York Harbor on Sept. 4, 1840, they did not immediately disembark from the Cincinnati. The sisters remained on board until the next day when a small rowboat met them. Saint Mother Theodore writes about climbing down a rope ladder to the rowboat:

“I whispered to the Sisters, ‘Come, if we have to die, let us die, but say nothing!’ With these words I descended first, by the rope ladder, without experiencing the least uneasiness; the others followed, none showing fear except poor Sister Ligouri, who was pale and trembling as though she were sure of meeting her death in the waters.”

To learn more about Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, click here.