Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published

ies-Jane Ray

ast six to awaken us. The old nun who was ac

nt." (Behold the Lord come

lui." (Let us g

ion. Thus we were soon drawn up in a double row the whole length of the room, with our hands folded across our breasts, and concealed in the broad cuffs of our sleeves. Not a word was uttered. When

du Saint Esprit-Ainsi soit il." (In the name o

sed the floor; then, st

inning: Divin Jesus, Sa

oul). Then came the Lo

and five confessio

understood a word of.) Next we said the litanies of the holy name of Jesus, in Latin, which was afterward to be repeated several times in the course of the day.

rom a book, which occupied five minutes. Then profound silence prevailed for fifteen minutes, during which we were meditating upon it. Then she read another chapter of equal length, on a different subject and we meditated

e time, and having then to sit in another position more uncomfortable, with my feet

rayers, and the litanies of the providences, "providence de Dieu," &c.; then followed a numbe

made our meal in silence, we repeated the litanies of the "holy name of Jesus" as we proceeded to the community-room; and such as had not finished them

d by a nun appointed to perform that duty that day;

ure. This exercise continued until ten o'clock, when the recreation-bell rang. We still continued our work, but the nuns began to con

ersation instantly ceased, and the recitation of some

r, when we stopped. The first two dipped their fingers into the font, touched the holy water to the breast, forehead, and each side, thus forming a cross, said, "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen," and then walked on to the dining-room, repeati

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rayer in French, and stepping aside from the head of the table, let us pass out as we came in. Each of us bowed in passing the little chapel near the door, which is a glass case, containing a waxen figure of the infant Jesus. When we reached the community-room

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itted subjects; that is what is called recreation till one o'clock. We then began t

able to answer correctly, were obliged to kneel down, until that exercise was concluded, upon as many dry peas as there were verses in the chapter out of which they were questioned. This seems like a penance of no gre

, when we were allowed, as usual, to

and the "prayer after sacrament." Thus we continued our work until dark, when we laid it aside, and began to go over the same prayers which we had repeated in the morning, with the exception of the orison mental; instead of that long exercise,

d her companions "for the scandal she had caused them;" and then requested the Superior to give her a penance to perfor

and went out bowing to the chapelle, and repeating litanies. Returning to the community-room which we had lef

Ave Marias, 3d, Four Glor

ion till half-past eight o'clock, being allowed to converse on permit

was read to us, in a book of meditations, to emplo

blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual orde

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ive you m

prinkled it on our beds to drive away the devil,

awake repeated a prayer, called the offrande;

r. It would be very difficult to give an accurate description of this singular woman; dressed in the plain garments of the nuns, bound by the same vows, and accustomed to the same life, resembling them in nothing else, and frequently interrupting all their employments. She was apparently almost always studying or pursuing some odd fancy; now rising from sewing, to walk up and down, or straying in from another apartment, looking about, addressing some of us, and passing out again, or saying something to make us laugh, in periods of the most profo