ROYAL SISTERS.
There can hardly be a stronger contrast in contemporary European life (renia<rks the Roman Catholic journal Universe) than that between the lot of the new Empress of Austria, and that of two^of her sisters, who are. Benedictine nuns of the Abbey of St. Cecilia, Ryde (Isle of Wight), which has been the ham© of a French, community since it was obliged to lea-Te Solexnes. On© of these Royal nuns wae formerly known as Princess Adelaide of Bourbon; she is now called Sister Maria Benedicta, and is now 31;. her sister, Princess Mario Joseph©, is Sister Scholastioa, and is 26—two years older thaai the new Empress. Although the life of a nun is severely Tegular and "methodical, it is possible that the Empress, amidst all the pomp and pageantry of the Austrian Court, may sometimes have cause to envy the two nuns who Lave exchanged the trappings of royalty for the habit—the world forgetting, almost by the world forgot.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 14
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