The foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares in the United States, Mother Mary Veronica von Elmendorff died on this day in 1905. “Where did this frail suffering woman find the strength to follow Jesus on the road of suffering… if not in her implicit faith in His word, in her firm and unshakable confidence in his promises, in her tender love for her crucified Savior, in fervent prayer in the stillness of her cell or before the tabernacle, and to the frequent reception of the sacraments?”