Mary Tamisier

"... DQcDVCBIMKBOQt THE incidence of the 35 th International Eucharistic Congress in Barcelona, Spain, focuses at tention on the fact that the foundress of the movement was a -woman, Miss Mary Tamisier, -who obtained ap proval for the project from the then reigning Pontiff, Pope Leo XIII. Miss Tamisier, a native of Tours, France, had worked for a number of years without ?success for the idea of Inter national Eucharistic Con gresses. Then she met Bishop Claude M. Dubuis, ..."

"... like so many other wonder ful works of God, in a most humble manner. The first idea of them came as a happy inspiration, from a woman, Martha , Mary Tamisier, born at Tours, France in 1834. Among the pious- pic Most Rev. Dr. Redwood, Archbishop of Wellington. tiires shown to her immediately after her first Communion, she was greatly impressed ..."

"... 28th of the series, which were inaugurated in France in 1881. The first'idea of such .an international Eucharistic gathering arose in the mind of-.a devout lady of Tours (France), Mary Martha Tamisier, who "had been ?spiritually formed in the school of the "Apostle of the Eucharist," Blessed Peter Julian Eytnard, and who entered religion at his instanse. But she was riot destined ..."

"... OF THE IDEA, By Mary Muir. (For The Southern Cross.") The Coming Congress in Ireland will throw a clear and vivid light upon the beautiful and pious character of Mary Martha Tamisier, known better to her intunate friends- as " Emilia," a charac ter- that exhibited a most unwearied and self-forgetting devotion to the Eucharistic Presence in our midst. " Emilia" Tamisier so completely seemed to realise that the worship of the Blessed Sacrament is the great oc cupation of the Catholic Church, that to this worship is ordered and designed our ..."