Six Months in a Convent, Or, The Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, who was Under the Influence of the Roman Catholics about Two Years, and an Inmate of the Ursuline Convent on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, Mass., Nearly Six Months, in the Years 1831-2

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Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1835 - 192 σελίδες
First edition of this American anti-Catholic memoir, one of the bestsellers of the then-popular borderline-"gothic" genre of "convent horror tales." [description from Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts].
 

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Σελίδα 116 - There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and...
Σελίδα 48 - ... without any expense to them. In the nunneries also young women were taught to work and to read English and sometimes Latin also. So that not only the lower rank of people who could not pay for their learning, but most of the noblemen's and gentlemen's daughters were educated in those places.
Σελίδα 47 - ... is substituted. This was accompanied with another fundamental principle, that all religious sects and denominations shall be equally under the protection of the law, and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall be established by law.
Σελίδα 53 - Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with thee : blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Σελίδα 48 - Thirdly, all the monasteries were in effect great hospitals, and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor people every day. They were likewise houses of entertainment for almost all travellers.
Σελίδα 53 - Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Σελίδα 61 - ... blessing ; after which, she embraced me, and I returned to my father's house. I shortly after visited the Misses H. in Charlestown, and was introduced to Mrs. G., who was acquainted with the tenets of the Catholic Church, and also with Mr. B., the Catholic priest. After a short acquaintance with her, I was requested to converse with Mr. B., the priest ; which I did, and liked him very much. He also supplied me with books, from which I learned that I ought to venerate and receive the religion...
Σελίδα 64 - I then took my leave, promising to see her at my friend Mrs. H.'s. The next time I saw her, she advised me to leave my father's house, and all, for the sake of Christ. She said she would procure me ornamental work, which would, support me, independent of my relatives, &c., which she did. I thanked her most heartily, and told her I thought I should be happy, if I were certain of going to a cloister. She gave me her word that I should. I then took up with her advice, and left my friends, I thought...
Σελίδα 81 - Next morning being holy day morning, the bell rang at three, instead of four, as it usually does, for meditation in the choir. While the angelus was ringing, at five AM, we were called to attend complin and prime, until half-past six ; then litany to the saints. After litany, the bell rang for diet in the refectory, every morning, except Friday ; on which day we assembled for confession to the Superior. " The manner of confession to the Superior is as follows : the room is first darkened, and one...
Σελίδα 3 - ... did not in sixty days send or bring his retraction to Rome, was pronounced an obstinate heretic, was excommunicated, and delivered unto Satan for the destruction of his flesh. We do not propose to institute a grave comparison between Luther's little treatise in the sixteenth century and the Narrative of a six months...

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