Sister Lucinda Savage, CSJ tells us a lenten story from our pioneer days,
Blocked by the ice in the Mississippi river, Lent 1839, Bishop Matthias Loras of Dubuque and the soon to be Bishop of St. Paul, Mgsr. Joseph Cretin was obliged to stay in St. Louis with Bishop Rosati and thus Bishop Loras gave a three-week mission there. Due to the cramped space in Bishop Rosati's house, however, it was decided that both were to dine every day at the Sisters' convent in Carondelet!
Sister Philomene was distressed that their meager resources would hardly be "worthy of a Monseigneur” but she soon found out that the monseigneur was a missionary bishop, accustomed as such not only to partaking of homely fare but to preparing it on occasion for himself.
Her cookbook was richer when he left for many simple recipes which he dictated, among them "bouillon without meat"!
Sister Lucinda Savage, The Congregation of Saint Joseph at Carondelet
[St. Louis, Missouri: Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 1923, 54)