Such Devoted Sisters ; Chris Upton Traces the Arrival and Work of the Sisters of Charity

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'Get thee to a nunnery!' said Hamlet to Ophelia, and we know that the poor girl had a long journey in front of her. Catholic convents in Protestant Denmark would have been pretty thin on the ground.

The same could be said for England under Henry VIII. All those hundreds of communities of monks and friars and nuns who had once filled the landscape with clerestories and cloisters were systematically scattered to the four winds and the buildings sold off.

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Such Devoted Sisters ; Chris Upton Traces the Arrival and Work of the Sisters of Charity

And so it remained for the next 300 years. It was just about possible to remain a Catholic in England, but making a habit of it was certainly not. There was a window of opportunity in the late 17th century to adopt the old faith...

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