The English Benedictine Nuns in Rome: Defense of the Irish Augustinians:
Father O’Gorman writing from Hythe (Kent) gives the “other side of the story”, relating to the alleged harsh eviction of the English Benedictine nuns from their home in Rome as related by ex-Abbess Pynsent.
After telling how the Irish Augustinians labored to collect money to build a shrine in honour of St. Patrick in Rome and succeeded in building a monastery out of the funds, Father O’Gorman, who writes on the highest authority of the Order, proceeds: – (long discourse) …
Father O’Gorman concludes: “Miss Pynsent has endeavoured to arouse racial animosities by hinting that the Irish Augustinian Fathers have acted with undue severity towards her and the members of her community for no other reason than that they are Englishwomen.
I will leave it to the good sense of your readers to decide whether such a course of action was ever likely to be pursued by a bod of Irish gentlemen, more especially when we bear in mind that some of Miss Pynsent’s own subjects were themselves, either by birth of descent. …
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GRO1138 Devonport: Lucretia Anna Maude Pinsent: 1857 – 1934