Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna reports circulated that Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians would follow the example of her dead husband's sister, Princess Josephine von Hohenzollern, enter a Catholic convent...
...reckoning set by the County Board neared last week, Bob Sweitzer motored down to Terre Haute, Ind. to see his daughter graduate from a convent school. Back in Chicago, he maintained a fine show of aplomb, admitted a "100% moral responsibility," talked of paying $335,000, contesting the rest. Meantime, he held a succession of night conferences with his bondsmen, who were reported ready to renege on their $3,000,000 obligation on the grounds that Sweitzer had filed false information with them. Important Chicago politicians gave no indication of willingness to rescue reputedly penniless Bob Sweitzer from his financial...
...York's silver-haired Patrick Cardinal Hayes journeyed up to Throggs Neck in The Bronx one day last week, entered the chapel of a Poor Clare convent where were gathered many a nun and priest. They were to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the entry into the sisterhood of the Reverend Mother Mary Seraphim, first public jubilee of a Poor Clare ever held in the U.S. Cardinal Hayes said a few praiseful words, read aloud a cablegram of felicitations from the Pope. Priests celebrated mass. A choir of friars sang. But not a person in the jubilee throng laid...
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...
Philippine Rose Duchesne was born in Grenoble, France, in 1769. Defying her parents, she entered a Visitation convent at 18, left it during the Revolution, later tried to run a little sisterhood of her own. Finally she joined Mme Barat's new order. In 1818 Mother Barat sent her to the U. S. with four companions. Of the trip she said: "There is not much fun in it unless you do it for God." Arrived in New Orleans, she soon made a 40-day trip to St. Louis where the local Bishop welcomed her to his "palace," a barn...