Taking the Veil.
Perhaps ono of the saddest sights in the world is tho ceremony of a lovely young girl taking the veil and burying herself alive in a convent. There lately died in Baltimore a nun of the name of Agnes Gubert who, according to Bubinstein's testimony, possessed the richest and_ most wonderful voice ever known within the memory of man. Tho operatic impresario Strakosch offered her in his time £10,000 for a six months' concert tour, which she, however, refused, in order to take the veil and bury herself and the enormous fortune which was in her voice within the gloomy walls of a convent. It is even said that she was never allowed to sing in the choir, for fear sho would grow vain and repent what she had done. It is more than likely that this brutal restriction had the opposite effect, and that, deprived of the right to use the voice which she had dedicated to her God, it broke her heart.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 28 August 1886, Page 3
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