Friday Afternoon Inspirational Moment.

Disputations has a post on three Dominican women who show three quite different "paths to sanctity."

One of these women was Rosa Hawthorne, who at age 45 moved into a tenement in the poorest area of New York City, and began nursing incurable cancer patients. Her apostolate became the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.

Now for the "gosh-wow" portion of the program: Rosa was the daughter of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.