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A treaty was signed in a railcar in Paris. On November 11, 1918, “at the eleventh hour ... of the eleventh day ... of the eleventh month ...” the fighting would cease. Armistice was declared. Soldiers throughout Europe laid down their weapons and a tenuous “peace” finally settled in. But it came only after great losses. Millions had been killed – soldiers and civilians alike. The “Great War” was over but the world was forever changed. History would show that even this peace was only temporary. War would be fought again.

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A treaty was signed in a railcar in Paris.

On November 11, 1918, “at the eleventh hour ... of the eleventh day ... of the eleventh month ...” the fighting would cease.

Armistice was declared. Soldiers throughout Europe laid down their weapons and a tenuous “peace” finally settled in. But it came only after great losses. Millions had been killed – soldiers and civilians alike. The “Great War” was over but the world was forever changed.

History would show that even this peace was only temporary. War would be fought again.

No group around the world was untouched by this pandemic, including the Salvatorians.

In the United States, many of the priests, sisters, and brothers fell ill to the flu. Most tragic was that the community lost four of its young-adult members – two seminarians from the Society, and two of the youngest Sisters. All four of these were among the first USA-born Salvatorians! How hope-filled the early Salvatorian

pioneers must have been when they first experienced new vocations in this new “mission” territory. But how heart-broken they must have been when some of the earliest of their “first-born spiritual sons and daughters” in the USA lost their lives to the flu before their prime.