Word: spezzaferri
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...Little Hosts" which, founded in his honor, had grown too impassioned and hysterical. Also disciplined were the "Little Victims of Christ," the Order of St. Bridget of Sweden, and a Carmelite group who had so cut themselves off from the world as to be called "buried alive." Margherita Spezzaferri, founder of the "Little Hosts," was forbidden the use of any religious building for services. The other nuns were to be transferred to less ecstatic nunneries...
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