Poland.—I. GEOGRAPHY.—The western part of the Sarmatian Plain together with the northern slopes of the Carpathians, i.e. the territory included between lat. 46°...
and that the country already had bishops and priests when Rome “usurped” their authority. Elizabeth was citing the authority of the sixth-century monk Gildas, whose shrine at Glastonbury Abbey had been destroyed when King Henry VIII suppressed all the monasteries, convents and friaries in Englan...
Taine has proved that vocations to the religious life increased remarkably in the France of the nineteenth century, when they were entirely spontaneous, as compared with the France of the eighteenth century, when many families, for worldly reasons, placed their daughters in convents. MISSIONARY FRAN...
Her youth was frivolous and flirtatious and she deeply regretted 20 years of indifference. But they were a “happy fault”—giving reason to praise God’s infinite mercies. In convents then, the wealthy had freedom to come and go, an entourage of family, friends, and servants, good wine,...
A Traditional Convent is Taking Aspirants: A true Catholic Convent is beginning near Los Angeles, California. Female candidates who may be discerning the religious life may contact the Editor of (TCW) who will put them in contact with the Mother Superior. For more information on the ...
care of her at Mercy. In September, Rhoda was attracted to the crucifix on one of the Sister's rosary. When Sister came over to her bed Rhoda took the crucifix and held it in her hands. Heat radiated from the crucifix as she held it."Sister, will you teach me how to pray the ...
‘leaving everything and following Him’, Helena embarked on the next bus to Warsaw, with no luggage, wearing only the dress she had worn at the dance, and not telling anyone; a parish priest found her a room, whence she asked at various convents, all of them refusing the impoverished ...
It was eventually judged heretical in significant part, and it disturbed French Catholicism, and eventually European Catholicism, for a century and a half after Jansen’s death. During Pascal’s life, the movement was institutionally centered on the convents of Port-Royal in Paris, and Pascal ...
“calling” to serve God, and also much time to consider one’s choice. There are numerous orders of nuns, each with different missions. Those who do not work in the outside world are more traditionally called a nun, while those who work outside of the convent, and are not cloistered ...
There fell into the hands of this gentleman, on the breaking up of the convents of Saragossa in 1835, a rich collection of original documents, comprehending, among other things, the autograph correspondence of Ferdinand and Isabella, and of the principal persons of their court. It formed, ...