Word: abbesse
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...asceticism that is extraordinary even for her order. She is one of the few nuns in the world with ecclesiastical permission to attempt the hermitlike life known as reclusion. Her only contacts with the outside world are with the priest who daily gives her communion and with the convent abbess who visits her from time to time. This week Sister Nazarena and her sister nuns are busy cutting palm leaves for the Vatican's Palm Sunday. It is a time of "extra strict silence...
...Manhattan. She was briefly engaged to marry, but broke it off and joined a convent of Carmelite nuns in Newport, R.I. The Carmelites were not strict enough for her ; she left the convent and went to Rome, where a priest advised her to try the Camaldolese. In 1945 her abbess gave Sister Nazarena permission to attempt reclusion...
...that certain religious use to scourge themselves in mortification. In her soli tary life, Sister Nazarena prays, explains one nun, "for you, for me, for all of us." Solitude with her God seems to agree with her. "She is the most serene person I have ever known," says her abbess Mother Hildegarde. "She is a saint...
...theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred her fierce love for her daughter to the peasant actress. Only Eva Le Gallienne's abbess managed to imbue the production with some of the pretty metaphysics of the original. "We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten,' she says. "But the love will have been enough . . . Memory is not necessary for love." Then a few seconds before final curtain, Actress Le Gallienne...
...republic that perches on the Apennines 60 miles east of Florence in north central Italy. But last week an unlikely rebel had the people talking angrily about throwing out the Reds once and for all. The issue: progressive education. The rebel: Mother Veronica, the frail, 74-year-old abbess of the Convent of St. Clare, who runs a top-notch traditionalist school for about 90 of San Marino's girls...