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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 27, 22 April 1892, Page 7

It will be remembered that tbe daily papers mentioned that among those who Bent memorial wreaths to deck the bier of Cardinal Manning were the East Gnnstcad Sisters who had gone over in a body to the Catholic Church. A lady writes to an Anglican paper to to explain that they were a small nuising community in Hoxtonsquare, LondoD, who seceded in the year 1874. She was connected with them »t the time and was the only one who lemained in the Church of England. In defending her own orthodoxy Miss Ellen Burton BaveLbill, wboee signature is at the foot, only confirms and gives more prominence to this remarkable conversion of the entire body save one I Only about twelve months ago quite a nnmber of Father lgnatius's Sisterhood of Anglican nuns availed thtmselves of tbe opportunity of his absence in America to embrace the ancient faith. Now the announcement is made that a community knewo as ••The Bisters of the Faith "has been formerly dissolved. Whether they, too, showed Bomeward tendencies is not stated, but it is certainly remaikable bow precarious is the existence of these Anglican sisterhoods and fraternities. They may well say— what shadows we are, what shadows we pursue.— Liverpool Catholic Time*.