GIRLS

Grade 7 B. Madeleine Delaney, 92%

Rhoda Burton, 91

Marie McCrohan, 89
Della McGowan, 88
Mary Murray, 88
Ellen Boyle, 86

Mary Kane, 86
Agnes McLoughlin,
85
Genevieve Wools, 84
Barbara Vaughan, 83
Marie Donegan, 83
Mary Malone, 82
Mary Clarkin, 82
Veronica Russell, 80
Ellen Carey, 80
Margaret Haugh, 80

Mary Neeson, 80

Rose Mitchell, 85

Anna Duffy, 85 Marie Sullivan, 80 Mary McGowan, 81

Grade 6 A.

Mary Fitzgerald, 82%
Florence Tiernan, 81
Grade 5 B.
Anastasia Phelan, 99
Madeline Bielemeier,
93
Helen Walsh, 92
Mary Barry, 92
May Sullivan, 90
Mary Duffy, 90
Anna McMahon, 90
Margt. McCusker, 89
Nellie Brosnan, 86
Florence Clark, 85
Ellen Porteus, 85
Mary Breen, 84

Mary McCormack, 82 Josephine Dennehy,

Grade 6 B.

84

Ethel Hollenstein, 86 Margt. Simmons, 84

Grace Roeding, 83 Isabel Connelly, 82 Catherine Callagy, 82 Loretta McGrann, 80

Grade 5 A. Teresa Hannon, 83% Cecilia Stanford, 82 Mary Callanan, 80

Grade 4 B. Catherine Cowie, 88% Mary Hyland, 83 Rose Donohue, 81 Mary McGowan, 81 Anna Theoricht, 80

Grade 4 A. Emma Schaub, 93% Helen Heaphy, 90 Cath. Malone, 89 Margaret Moore, 89 Anna McKeon, 88 Agnes Haugh, 87 Mary Callahan, 87 Margaret Dalton, 87

Lillian Carson, 86
Frances Kelly, 83
Anna Shea, 81
Rose McHugh, 81
Ellen Coppinger, 81
Ida Hopkins, 80
Madeline Ludeke, 80
Sarah Johnson, 80
Anna Murray, 80

Grade 3 B.
Julia Cusack, 98%
Loretta Fitzpatrick,
95
Ethel Delaney, 95
Lillian Moore, 92
Margaret Bauer, 92
Mary Duffy, 90
Albertina Kronen-
berger, 90
Mary Moffitt, 89
Belinda McKeon, 87
Marie Warrington, 83
Anna Derrig, 81

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the vindication of innocence and virtue is grateful to Pius X for this latest act of courage and of justice.

The story of her life and persecutions fills all with admiration; and although it is a plain, simple story, it is a noble and most interesting one.

She was born in the East of France, near what is now the German frontier, in the year of Our Lord, 1412. It was the beginning of the stormy fifLeenth century, characterized by great disorders, wars and schisms, both in the Church and in the State. Her birth-place was called Domrémy, a small village. Her parents, James Her parents, James d'Arc and Isabel Rowée, were plain, pious and uneducated people. Indeed, in those days very few peasants knew how to read or write; and yet they were intelligent, for the Catholic religion infused into the minds and hearts of the least educated, often gives to them a keenness of perception and a sentiment of appreciation for culture and beauty, which the best education without religion will never confer. Faith and the constant practice of the Christian virtues are always mental tonics, elevating the intelligence, purifying the imagination and softening the manners of a people. Witness the Catholic peasantry of the world; and Joan's family belonged to this class. She had a younger sister-Catherine-and three brothers. "No one in the village," testified the priest of the place, "equalled Joan in piety." Every Saturday she had the custom of visiting, in the neighboring wood, a little chapel dedicated to our Blessed Lady. This chapel was locally famous as a place of pilgrimage; and near it stood a large beech tree, round which the villagers (Joan among them) often gathered for May feasts and for other festivities. Like all her townspeople, Joan felt deeply. for the woes of her native land, France, then disturbed and disrupted by internal factions, and harassed by constant wars begun by Henry V of England in union with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, against

Charles VI and continued against his son, Charles VII, Kings of France. It is well to remember, in studying the history of these wars, that neither the England nor the France of those days was the England or the France of the seventeenth century, when Feudalism had been almost destroyed, and when the idea of nationality and the sentiment of patriotism,-which is chiefly a consequence of that idea,-developed into its modern form. More than half of the generals and soldiers who aided and abetted Henry V in his attempt to conquer the French King's title, were the French King's feudal lords, but helping the English King for the furtherance of their own interests. The play of Shakespeare, "Henry V"-written when Elizabeth was on the English throne, and national sentiment strong-is, to a great extent, responsible for the myth that Henry represented England alone in the conflict. Many of his men who fought at Agincourt were Norman knights, or soldiers of Norman descent; for the Saxon was still in England very much in the condition of "Gurth," the swineherd, as described by Walter Scott in "Ivanhoe." The bodyguards, some of the best soldiers of kings, even later than the fifteenth century, were foreigners; Louis XI's body-guard were Scotchmen. This lack of national spirit explains the condition of France in the time of Joan of Arc. The Duke of Burgundy (who ought to have been the ally of France) became the ally of Henry V after Agincourt. Charles the Sixth of France died a prisoner of the Burgundians, leaving to his son, Charles VII, a France so dismembered and weakened by the revolt of feudal lords and the combined aggression of England and Burgundy that his kingdom comprised only the territory south of the Loire. But the sympathies of the peasants, and their power in the conquered territory, so far as they had the exercise of it,--were with the Dauphin, who was not yet crowned as Charles VII, King of