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...founded in what is now Budapest the first Hungarian convent of the Poor Clares of the Order of St. Francis, and for the rest of her life, she showered it with gifts. Among these was a "small altarpiece for domestic use of silver gilt." Was this the same work now at The Cloisters? Hungarian scholars have always thought so. Cloisters Curator Margaret Freeman, who presumably knows (but will not tell) where the museum got it, feels ready to agree...
These include dormitories for Brazilian and Swiss students in University City outside Paris, a new museum of modern French art in Tokyo, the pilgrimage church of Notre Dame de Ronchamp, and a convent for the Dominican Order at La Tourette, near Lyon...
JENNIFER BRITTO St. Francis' Convent Jesselton, North Borneo...
...seasons, she has been pregnant and unmarried (The Nurses), a dope addict (The New Breed) and an assault suspect (The Defenders); she has suffered medical miseries ranging from a simple subdural hematoma (Dr. Kildare) to epilepsy (Ben Casey], will appear next month as a girl about to enter a convent (Empire). She played the second Mrs. De Winter (to James Mason's Mr.) in a widely acclaimed special of Rebecca, and won a slew of awards for her performance as the promiscuous heroine of off-Broadway's Call Me by My Rightful Name...
Near to the Ministry. France's most famous religious center for Protestant women is a bustling combination of hospital, school, medical training center and convent at Reuilly in Paris. Best known as nurses, the Reuilly sisters run their own hospital, have a home and school for delinquent girls. A well-known Anglican sisterhood is the 100-year-old Order of St. Andrew, which runs a convalescent home and assists parish priests in West London. The ladies of the order are ordained both as deaconesses and sisters, and Mother Clare, their superior, says: "We are as near to being...