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Bishop Ullathorne invited Margaret and three others to Coventry to begin a new foundation in England. Margaret Mary’s religious life in England began as a third order secular Dominican with vows made to the Bishop. The little group moved from Coventry to Stoke on Trent and finally to Stone before they found a suitable location. Wherever she went Margaret brought with her a processional image of the Blessed Virgin. For a time Margaret had been deathly sick and her only consolation was this image Blessed Virgin that she claimed spoke with her and consoled her. The image, depicted in the post called Processional Image of Our Lady, is Our Lady of Consolation, Refuge of Sinners. Bishop Ullathorne hoped that, in addition the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, other practices such as the devotion of the Forty Hours and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament would be reintroduced. He proposed the establishment of confraternities of the Holy Rosary and promotion of the prayer to help England “overcome the predominant national vice of pride.”
Drane, Augusta Theodosia (Mother Francis Raphael), Life of Mother Margaret Mary Hallahan: Foundress of the English Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena of the Third Order of St. Dominic, Longmans, Green and Co., New York, New York, 1929, pp. 51-52.
