Word: prioress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the neighboring convent of Sant Lazare has taken in a beautiful young waif, Dolores. The saintly prioress soon finds she has got more than she bargained for. Dolores' passionate influence is like a spark among the dry tinder of the convent. The nuns work hard, rise early and sleep in their own coffins, but some of them are overyoung to be the brides of heaven. Among these, Dolores' influence seems sinister if not definitely devilish. The prioress thinks she can make her into a good nun. But then young Pedro comes prowling around the walls, sees Dolores...
...interdenominational,' was her answer. 'For further information you had better talk to the Mother Prioress...
...Prioress explained to "The Pilgrim" that the sisterhood had been founded because of the Christian Century discussion...
...Marveling at the promptness with which this proposal had been realized, I walked around the cloister, and observed the humility of the Dry Methodist Sister Refectorian, as she set out on the table tiny bottles of beer, 'just to keep peace in the community,' explained the Prioress. 'It really does help,' she added...