NUNS TO SEE ALTERED WORLD
QUEBEC (By Many of them natives of this ’ ancient French-Canadian city and I some of them cloistered for half-a- ■ century, sisters of the Ursuline and , Augustinian orders will see a new and I altered world next August when they ; participated in tercentenary celebra- , tions of North America’s oldest hos- I pital—Hotel Dieu here. j By special dispensation of the Roman Catholic Church the nuns, who have been kept within convent confines by their own vows, will make their first public appearance since they forsook the world from 10 to 50 years ago. The sober-garbed sisters will march in procession from their respective convents, through the city’s narrow, winding streets to ’ the Basilica, where special rites will I mark 300 years of service at Hotel Dieu, which the, nuns administer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 142, 19 June 1939, Page 2
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