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The Chapel of Saints was held in reverence as the most sacred place
in the monastery. It contained the shrines and relics of many
saints and martyrs. The devout nuns lavished upon it their choicest
works of embroidery, painting, and gilding, in the arts of which
they were eminent. The old Sacristaine was kneeling before the
altar as Amelie and Heloise entered the Chapel.
An image of the Virgin occupied a niche in the Chapel wall, and
before it burned the silver lamp of Repentigny which had been hung
there two generations before, in memory of the miraculous call of
Madelaine de Repentigny and her victory over the world.
The high-bred and beautiful Madelaine had been the delight and pride
of Ville Marie. Stricken with grief by the death of a young officer
to whom she was affianced, she retired to Quebec, and knelt daily at
the feet of our Lady of Pouvoir, beseeching her for a sign if it was
her will that she should become an Ursuline.
The sign was given, and Madelaine de Repentigny at once exchanged
her gay robes for the coarse black gown and veil, and hung up this
votive lamp before the Madonna as a perpetual memorial of her
miraculous call.
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