Mary Josephine Rogers (Mother Mary Joseph), born 1882, was inspired by the interest of Protestant students at Smith College (Boston) for the foreign missions. Her desire to organize a group of Catholic students eventually led to founding, with Father James A. Walsh, the Order of Maryknoll Sisters, the first American congregation of women dedicated to the work of the foreign missions. She encouraged her sisters: "...We have tried from the beginning to cultivate a spirit which is extremely difficult and which for a long time might have been misunderstood even by those who were nearest to us, and that is, the retention of our own natural dispositions, the retention of our own individuality, having in mind, of course, that all of these things should be corrected where radically wrong, and all of it supernaturalized.... Each one of us, in her own work, with her own particular little sweetness or attractiveness, is to be used by God as a particular tool to do particular work and to save particular souls...." *Mother Mary Joseph died October 9, 1955. (People's Companion to the Breviary: The Liturgy of the Hours with Inclusive Language by the Carmelites of Indianapolis)
Here is the link about Mother Mary Joseph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Joseph_Rogers
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