The cross on the coffin on Mother Marie-Salome
From the book by Colonel de l’Éprevier
On the morning of the 18th, she received Holy Communion; she now felt that she was leaving.
The good Lord will come for me soon,” she said to the nuns who surrounded her. “I feel weary, I can hardly pray anymore.”
As they could not hold back their tears, she said to them, “Do not cry, my dear Sisters, I forbid you. Just pray for me.”
From her room, she could hear the singing in the chapel.
“It is the Sisters praying for you,” they told her. “Oh yes, pray well for me,” she replied, “I need it, so that the good Lord will forgive me and welcome me into his paradise. ”
Then they said to her,
Venerable Mother, you must also pray for the Congregation. When you are with God, what will you ask of him for us?”
She replied,
That you may all be holy missionaries and that you may keep the spirit of our Venerable Father.”
During the day, she heard the hymns of salvation, the Miserere and the Tantum ergo, and joined in. But in the evening, she lost the power of speech; life gradually left her, and around midnight, she passed away peacefully.
She was 83 years old.
