… … You may now state the following facts: A house has been taken in the Via S. Niccole da Tolentino, and several ladies of good position are, under the guidance of the Lady Abbess Pynsent, 0.S.B., living together in the observance of regular life. This is with the encouragement of ecclesiastical authority pending canonical approbation. Although in the meantime the ladies wear no external distinctive habit, their domestic life is disposed according to the practices of a formed community, with the recitation of the divine office, rising to Matins at 1.30. A special object which they have in view in their preparation is to be of use in giving instruction to others who are led to seek admission into the Church, and so to assist the clergy in this part of their work. Until the present, Mass was said in a room fitted up as a chapel. They have now, however, constructed on the ground floor an oratory tastefully decorated in the Gothic style. Behind the altar is the choir, separated from the sanctuary by open tracery. The altarpiece is a copy of the fresco painting of our Lady before which St. Benedict is said to have prayed when a child. Two life-size statues of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica stand on either side of the chancel arch. There is accommodation in the body of the oratory for about too externs. On Sexagesima Sunday his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar solemnly blessed the new oratory and the picture of Our Lady, and then celebrated Mass, all the music of which was rendered in well executed Gregorian, without external help … … (continues) … …
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GRO1138 Devonport: Lucretia Anna Maude Pinsent: 1857 – 1934