The Religious Houses of the United Kingdom; Containing a Short History of Every Order and House Compiled from Official Sources (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... Habit.--Black tunic, scapular, and veil, with white veilette, wimple, and fillet. In choir the cowl or great habit is worn. Abbesses wear a pectoral cross and abbatial ring, and use a crozier. The Benedictine houses of Nuns in England are classed under two heads--I. those incorporated in some Congregation; II. those that are self-contained, and subject to the Ordinary. I. Stanbrook, near Worcester, St. Mary's Abbey (education of young ladies), belonging to the Anglo-Benedictine Congregation. In 1623 the Monks of the English Benedictine Congregation founded an English Nunnery at Cambray, belonging to their own Congregation, and wholly subject thereto, instead of to the Ordinary. The Nuns ultimately, after imprisonment at Compiegne, returned to England in 1795, and established themselves successively at Woolton, near Liverpool; at Abbot's Salford, in Warwickshire, in 1807; and in 1838 at Stanbrook. MlNSTER-lN-THANET, near Ramsgate. St. Mildred's Convent, belongs to the Cassinese Congregation. II. Atherstone, Warwickshire, St. Scholastica's Priory. A Community of Benedictine Nuns, with the Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. They are strictly enclosed, and have no schools. The Community was an affiliation from St. Benedict's Priory, near Colwich, in May 1859. COLWICH, St. Benedict's Priory. A filiation was made from Cambray to Paris in 1652, from where, after suffering great hardships from the Revolution, they arrived in London in July 1795. At first they settled at Marnhull, Dorset, removing successively in 1807 to Cannington, near Bridgwater, and in 1835 to their present house at Colwich. At Cannington they were the first to establish in England, in 1829, the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Dumfries, N.B., of...