TWENTY-THREE YEARS A RECLUSE

Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 4

TWENTY-THREE YEARS A RECLUSE

THE STRANGE .RELIGIOUS CAREER. OE AN AMERICAN LADY. After being a recluse in an Anglican community for 25 years, Miss Pemberton, an American lady, has been received into the Catholic Church. She first came under the influence of the late Father Maturin when he was in Philadelphia. Coming to England, she entered the All Saints' sisterhood, an Anglican community, at St. Margaret street, London, making her profession- in 1885. Sent out to the branch of the sisterhood in Baltimore, U.S.A., she was recalled on account of her religious doubts, and was sent to Cowley, Oxford, which is under the direction of the Cowley Fathers. Still unsettled, she desired to live the life of a recluse, and did so for five years in a convent, separated from the rest of the community. This was in 1894. Five years later she took a lifevow of enclosure. Early this year she corresponded with a former sister of this Anglican community—since a convert, and now the Mother Superior of a convent in Sussex—and ultimately was received into the Catholic Church on the eve of All Saints' Day.