Research Catalog

Title

Priceless spirit : a history of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, 1841-1893 / by M. Georgia Costin.

Author

Costin, M. Georgia, 1923-

Publication

Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1994.

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Details

Description

xi, 268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Recounts the history of the Sisters of the Holy Cross from the time of their founding in 1841 to the death of the "architect of their autonomy," Father Edward Sorin, in 1893. Here is a lively, detailed study of a women's religious community in nineteenth-century America, wherein the complexities of frontier life, tensions with their community leaders in Europe, and collaboration with a male clergy and hierarchy are fully detailed in stories that run the gamut from humor to poignancy.

Subject

• Sisters of the Holy Cross > History > 19th century
• Sisters of the Holy Cross
• Sisters of the Holy Cross > Histoire universelle > 19e siècle
• 1800-1899
• Monasticism and religious orders for women > Indiana > History > 19th century
• Monasticism and religious orders for women
• Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins > États-Unis > Indiana > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Indiana

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-255) and index.

Contents

Preface -- 1. These fortunate shores, 1841-42 -- 2. An association of pious persons, 1840-42 -- 3. Wild roses and sweetbriar, 1843-47 -- 4. As edifying as Carthusians, 1847-49 -- 5. Maintain your independence, 1848-49 -- 6. I saw a man! 1849-52 -- 7. Here will I dwell all the days of my life, 1852 -- 8. This question of final separation, 1852-53 -- 9. The one I have been praying for, 1853-54 -- 10. The marsh between the lakes, 1854 -- 11. Thinking I was conning to certain death, New Orleans, 1849-52 -- 12. Many changes and troubles, 1852-55 -- 13. An entirely different style, New Orleans, 1855 -- 14. The house at New York, 1855-56 -- 15. Wonderful unheard-of event, 1857 -- 16. They do all the governing, 1858-60 -- 17. Autonomy without separation, 1861-62 -- 18. Good and bad and very bad, 1862-63 -- 19. Overflowing with patients, 1861-65 -- 20. A taste of our hospital tea, 1861-65 -- 21. Change is unanimously requested, 1862-65 -- 22. The secret vote being t, 1866-69 -- 23. A province yet not a province, 1870-79 -- 24. Priceless spirit, 1880-93. -- Notes -- Works consulted -- Index.

ISBN

• 026803804X
• 9780268038045

LCCN

93023642

OCLC

• ocm29255683
• 29255683
• SCSB-2036288

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library