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...Bernanos plot is based on the historical martyrdom of 16 Carmelite nuns during the revolutionary terror in Paris in 1789. The opera follows the spiritual struggles of a young noblewoman, Blanche de la Force, who has joined a Carmelite convent in Compiègne on the eve of the Revolution. Weak and fearful at first, she gradually gains spiritual strength. In a strange contrast, it is the doughty Mother Superior who dies in fear, while the once cowardly Blanche dies a glorious martyr's death; she twice spurns a chance to escape and, with other Carmelites, goes serenely...
...lived in a dazzling palace he built for her. Her end is shrouded in legend. In his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder relates that her beauty was so marred by smallpox that she never afterwards left her mansion, except when she sought solace in a convent. Her nickname, La Perricholi, is supposedly a combination of chola, which in Peru means a woman of mixed birth, and perra, which means bitch...
...RYAN won the refugees' confidence even more quickly by producing her International Passport of the Society of the Sacred Heart -an identification card issued by this world-circling order of nuns to traveling former students. Finding a young woman who had been a student at the Sacred Heart Convent in Budapest, Deirdre showed her card from the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington, D.C. After that, the Hungarians were convinced they were among friends...
...health of the natives gives The Nun's Story the warm glow of Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life," and probably brought Gabrielle close to peace of mind. But once, when she learned that three men were caught in quicksand and rushed out of the convent in a vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into the difference between religious vocation and mere doing good. "Not only did you leave the convent without permission," said Mother Mathilde, "but . . . you failed also in charity . . . I might have wished . . . to assign Sister...
...grant reduced fares to clergymen on a "space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations. ¶ The Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Religious has relaxed the rigors of "enclosure" to which contemplative orders of nuns are subject. Contemplatives are now divided into two classes: "major," permitted outside their convents for such reasons as an air raid, requisition of convent property, voting, surgery, or visits to medical specialists; "minor," permitted outside for these reasons, and also to educate the young. ¶ After eight months of collective bargaining, some 105 Jain priests from 21 temples in Ahmedabad. India won most...