Hyacinth Day - May 6
On May 6th, we celebrate Janet Erskine Stuart’s call in Hyde Park over 130 years ago. Blue Hyacinth Day is an opportunity to reflect upon Mother Stuart’s vocation and to consider our own, as well
Janet Erskine Stuart
Janet Erskine Stuart
Janet Erskine Stuart was born November 11, 1857 in the Anglican Rectory of Cottesmore, Rutland, England. As a child of thirteen, she set out on a solitary search for Truth, having been urged to this venture by a casual remark of one of her brothers that every rational creature must have a last end. The search for this last end took, she said, seven years and brought her to the Catholic Church at the age of twenty-one. In 1882, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton, outside of London, where she was to spend 30 years of her religious life.