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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Birth and Family of Catharine Burton
- CHAPTER II The English Teresians at Antwerp
- CHAPTER III Introduction to her Autobiography
- CHAPTER IV Early Years
- CHAPTER V First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VI First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VII Continued Suffering
- CHAPTER VIII Consolations and patience
- CHAPTER IX Favours and Trials
- CHAPTER X First Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
- CHAPTER XI The ten Fridays repeated
- CHAPTER XII Miraculous Cure
- CHAPTER XIII A second miracle
- CHAPTER XIV Passing the Sea
- CHAPTER XV In the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVI Advance in Prayer
- CHAPTER XVII Second year in the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVIII Among the Professed
- CHAPTER XIX Employments and Crosses
- CHAPTER XX Sub-Prioress and Mistress of Novices
- CHAPTER XXI Union with God
- CHAPTER XXII Anecdotes of Religious Life
- CHAPTER XXIII Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
- CHAPTER XXIV Mary Xaveria when Prioress
- CHAPTER XXV Spiritual History
- CHAPTER XXVI Recollections of the Religious
- CHAPTER XXVII Confidence in God
- CHAPTER XXVIII Religious Virtues
- CHAPTER XXIX Last Sickness and Death
- CHAPTER XXX After Death
- APPENDIX
CHAPTER II - The English Teresians at Antwerp
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Birth and Family of Catharine Burton
- CHAPTER II The English Teresians at Antwerp
- CHAPTER III Introduction to her Autobiography
- CHAPTER IV Early Years
- CHAPTER V First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VI First Year of Illness
- CHAPTER VII Continued Suffering
- CHAPTER VIII Consolations and patience
- CHAPTER IX Favours and Trials
- CHAPTER X First Devotion to St. Francis Xavier
- CHAPTER XI The ten Fridays repeated
- CHAPTER XII Miraculous Cure
- CHAPTER XIII A second miracle
- CHAPTER XIV Passing the Sea
- CHAPTER XV In the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVI Advance in Prayer
- CHAPTER XVII Second year in the Noviceship
- CHAPTER XVIII Among the Professed
- CHAPTER XIX Employments and Crosses
- CHAPTER XX Sub-Prioress and Mistress of Novices
- CHAPTER XXI Union with God
- CHAPTER XXII Anecdotes of Religious Life
- CHAPTER XXIII Visions of Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven. The Spiritual Exercises
- CHAPTER XXIV Mary Xaveria when Prioress
- CHAPTER XXV Spiritual History
- CHAPTER XXVI Recollections of the Religious
- CHAPTER XXVII Confidence in God
- CHAPTER XXVIII Religious Virtues
- CHAPTER XXIX Last Sickness and Death
- CHAPTER XXX After Death
- APPENDIX
Summary
The Monastery of the English Teresian nuns at Antwerp was founded under the protection of St. Joseph and St. Anne in the year of our Lord 1619, thirty-seven years after the death of St. Teresa. It was founded by the piety and liberality of the Lady Mary Lovel, daughter to the Right Honourable Lord Roper, Baron of Teynham. In the writings of the foundation I find these following passages.
This virtuous lady understood by revelation that the Queen of Heaven required that she should found a monastery, of an order most devoted to her service, upon which her director, a priest of the Society of Jesus, advised her to address herself to the Rev. Father Thomas of Jesus, Provincial of the Carmes. At the beginning he was unwilling to give in to the lady's proposals, hence this affair seemed dropped for a whole year, till at last he was severely reprehended by our Blessed Lady in his morning prayer for opposing the designs of heaven, so much conducing to the glory of God. This he owned afterwards to the first Prioress of the convent, and withal assured her he had received several commissions from the Blessed Virgin relating to the concerns of that house. In effect, he immediately condescended to what the Lady Lovel had proposed, and was instrumental in obtaining a licence from the Infanta Clara Isabella Eugenia, to found a monastery in any part of her dominions.
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- An English CarmeliteThe Life of Catharine Burton, Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels, of the English Teresian Convent at Antwerp, pp. 6 - 13Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1876