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English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century

, 2017
Between 1598 and 1800, an estimated 3, 271 Catholic women left England to enter convents on the Continent. This study focuses more particularly upon those who became Benedictines in the seventeenth century, choosing exile in order to pursue their vocation for an enclosed life.
Laurence Lux-Sterritt
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