St. Benedict’s Rome: The Benedictine Community, founded under the patronage of the holy Patriarch, in the Via San Nicola da Tolentino, by the Lady Abbess Pynsent, which has existed for a few years with the approval of the Roman ecclesiastical authorities, presented on St. Patricks Day, in October last, a petition for its formal recognition. Thanks to the interest personally manifested by the Holy Father himself, the nuns are now enabled to celebrate the feast of the Pater Monachorum, after the additional gratification of having received full and explicit acknowledgment as the members of a Monasterium. The glad tidings came early in the week, while Father Magnier, C.SS.R., was preparing to preach on “Sin.” He changed the subject of his discourse and bade the nuns to pray for the welfare of the Holy Father, which they did, going in procession to the shrine of St. Benedict, outside their chapel. The enclosure is a modified one, conceived in the spirit put forth in A Feature in Benedictine Life (St. Benedict’s, Rome, 1896), one of the manuals published by the community. … (continues) …
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GRO1138 Devonport: Lucretia Anna Maude Pinsent: 1857 – 1934