Mother Marie des Anges, our Superior General for thirty one years, was specially chosen by God through the instrumentality of our foundress Mother Veronica, for the Indian Mission. A valiant woman of faith, she stood firm and unshaken amidst the raging winds and the initial storms that rocked the Congregation and threatened to destroy it in its very infancy. She nursed the young Congregation with deep faith in God, with motherly love and tender care and gave the Apostolic Carmel a sense of direction and firm foundation.