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Celsus O'Brien quotes the Poor Clare Annalist: "The Third Abbess of said Convent, Mary Bonaventure (alias) Browne, was a very good holy and perfect religious Sister, and was endowed with many rare virtues, as obedience, poverty, chastity, humility and charity. She was prudent and wise, well spoken in English, Irish and Spanish.
Poor Clare monasteries (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Poor Clares" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Fresco of Saint Clare and nuns of her order, Chapel of San Damiano, Assisi. The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Latin: Ordo Sanctae Clarae), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the ...
Dillon was one of their 19 children, including her brothers Lucas Dillon and James Dillon. Along with her older sister, Eleanor, Dillon was one of the first Irishwomen to join the English Poor Clares at Gravelines in Flanders. Dillon professed as Sister Cecily of St Francis on 8 September 1622. [1] [2] [3]
On September 1, 1936 she joined the Poor Clares in Evian as a postulant, but remained only until April 10, 1937, when the mentally ill abbess dismissed her. After this upsetting convent experience, Louisa worked temporarily as a nanny in Lausanne with a working-class family which had six children, and then again with Countess Agliardi in ...
She entered the English Poor Clares at Gravelines in Flanders with her sister and was professed, alongside her sister, on 8 September 1622 as Sister Eleanor Mary of St Joseph. Dillon led a group of five young Irish nuns from Gravelines for Dunkirk in 1625, to found the first convent for Irish women since the suppression of the monasteries.
The Convent of Poor Clares at Gravelines in the Spanish Netherlands, now northern France, was a community of English nuns of the Order of St. Clare, commonly called "Poor Clares", which was founded in 1607 by Mary Ward. [1] The order of Poor Clares was founded in 1212 by Saint Clare of Assisi as the Second Order of the Franciscan movement.
Una O'Connor (born Agnes Teresa McGlade, 23 October 1880 – 4 February 1959) was an Irish-born American actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actress in film and in television.