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Rose was born into a wealthy French merchant’s family in the year of Our Lord 1769. Inspired by a visiting Jesuit missionary, she attempted to join a convent of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, despite her parents’ opposition. During the diabolical French Revolution, however, the convent was suppressed, and Rose returned home to minister to others as best as she could during the bloody Reign of Terror. When peace was restored somewhat under the Emperor Napoleon, Rose attempted but failed to restore the convent, and eventually joined the Society of the Sacred Heart under St. Madeleine Sophie Barat. After over a decade of other duties, Sister Rose’s dream of missionary work was realized when she and four sisters were called to the United States. With Rose as mother superior, the nuns founded their first American house in a log cabin at St. Charles, Missouri. Though she never learned English, Mother Duchesne was successful in establishing several more houses and schools in Missouri and Louisiana. After resigning as superior, she personally began a school for the American Indians in Kansas, but age, poor health, and language barriers forced her to retire to St. Charles. Mother Duchesne died there in the year of Our Lord 1852.
AT Rome, the Dedication of the basilicas of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. The former, having been enlarged, was on this day solemnly consecrated by Urban VIII.; while the latter, more sumptuously rebuilt after its total destruction by the flames, was solemnly dedicated on the 10th of December by Pius IX, though the festival in commemoration of that event was transferred to this day.
At Antioch, the birthday [into heaven] of St. Romanus, martyr, in the time of the emperor Galerius. When the prefect Asclepiades broke into the churches and strove to destroy them completely, Romanus exhorted the Christians to resist him, and after being subjected to dire torments and the cutting out of his tongue (without which, however, he spoke the praises of God), he was strangled in prison and crowned with a glorious martyrdom. Before him suffered a young boy named Barula, who being asked by him whether it was better to worship one God or several gods, and having answered that we must believe in the one God whom the Christians adore, was scourged and beheaded.
Also, at Antioch, the holy martyr Hesychius, a soldier. Hearing the order that anyone refusing to sacrifice to idols, should lay aside his military belt, he immediately took off his. For this reason, he was precipitated into the river with a large stone tied to his right hand.
The same day, the Saints Oriculus and his companions, who suffered for the Catholic faith, in the persecution of the Vandals.
At Mayence, St. Maximus, bishop, who, after suffering much from the Arians, died a confessor, in the time of Constantius.
At Tours, the departure from this life of blessed Odo, abbot of Cluny.
At Antioch, St. Thomas, a monk honored with an annual solemnity by the people of Antioch, for having obtained the cessation of a pestilence by his prayers.
At Lucca, in Tuscany, the translation of St. Frigdian, bishop and confessor.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.