, 1874-02-21
WASHINGTON.
The Cl9ister and The Capital. Echoes from
The Roman Convent at
Georgetown.
The Case 0i Bertha Geroit---Limoe|an,
the Assassin-Abbe.
Exciting Tale Of Clerical Bandit---Rem-
iniscences Of Bishop Carroll.

Exciting Tale Of Clerical Bandit---Rem-
iniscences Of Bishop Carroll.
From Our O1ra Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1874.
Bertka Gerolt daughter OF the late frass'an
Minister to the United States), who entered
the
uoSAsTEny OF THE VISITATION,
in the District OF Columbia, about three years
ago took the final vows on Saturday, Feb.7,
1874 and will hereafter be seen no more in the
midst Of that unconscious history performing
within her daily hearing. The same day nun
died within the congent-walls who had been I'M
INJURED there twenty-five years, and belonged Ii
the past to respectable official family, still nu
merous in Washington. Persons at distance
may be struck with the dramatic situation OF
monastery under the dome OF the American Cap
ital, in all respects as secluded aud rigorous Us
those Of ultra-monarchical ages, and fully as e1-
citing in it's legends of human sorrow, devotion,
and despair Many nun can look from its
windows ever the city, like Hildegunde from tho
convent in the island Of the Rhine to the castle
on the bank, where her lover-Knight watched for
her until be heard hef funeral-bell- In political
society at Capital where, to the ferEor OF nat
ural affection, courtship often adds
high social aspiration, there are apt to bo moro
despairins couples than in quiet places where
young people meet, consider each other, indulge
the pleasures of hope, and suddenly turn about
and marry in different directions. All the lays
and tales OF unhappy loves in the age Of legend
clustered about persona connected with the
Court, the Army, or the Church and one dis
inclined to Put credonce in such stories might
have more faith il he lived between the Convent
OF the Visitation and the Halls Of Congress-.
Many years ago, one
SISTER GERTRUDE,
or Miss Ann G. Wight, beautiful girl OF m
old Maryland family, was sent to this Convent
school while her family we're visiting Europe;
and, when they returned, she WAS pledged to the
Church There she showed such zeal that she
waa talked OF for Lady Superior; bct, FOR some
cause ueyor known, she covered herself With q
Monks cloak one night. and escaped into the
city, refnsing all applications to return, and she
agnin became . brilliant woman OF society. not
without influence in official things, and demon
atrate. her cleyerness by going to the City of
Rchoolmate, the daughter OF the Emperor
AIu1oaue, ao0 AeeoseAi16 49, 4'44o" ''6usI
never married, and, little while prior to the
Rebellion, she died in the family of John 7.
Mason, United States Senator.
THE HEROINE OF THE CONVENT.
Miss Bertla Gero1t WAS OF Catholic family,
although her father represented q Protestant
sweetness and sensibility, aud probably felt for
her father, who was growing old was quite poor,
and, in the movement OF Count Bismarck against
the Catholic Church, stood in danger Of losing
his Legation. About that time, there lived with
Baron Gerolt, as Attache, young man belons-
houses Of Brandenburg, people as proud Of
their religious consistency as OF their rank> He
grew enanored OF our Miss Gerolt, and the al-
lance would have been proper and acceptable in
every way but for the matter OF religion. The
Attaches mother, in Prussia, repelled the idea
of the Catholic connection; while the ecclesins-
tics in America, seeing an apparent opportunity
to do come p1oselytizing around the PEussian
Court, operated upon Miss Gerolt's mind. After
the parents on both eiees we're tolarab1y agreed,
tie religious issue was kept up, and tho ques-
ton Of children had to be settled in advance,
til the young mans patience Was worn
out, and he broke the engagement. The
Church. which had been successful in the maj
ter. WAS, OF course, entitled to the bride aud,
about this time, some controversy arose between
our Government and the State authorities ut
Berlin. winch ended in the recall Of the old
Minister,-the only one, although a Catholic, to
adhere with enthusiasm to the cause OF tho Fed
eTA Government during the dark days ct the
Rebellion.
Bertha Gerolt has disappeared, as did before
her, and within the same walls, daughter Of
the Emperor iturblde and daughter OF Gen.
scott. A few weeks ago. the daughter OF Ad-
mural Sands took the white vel in this convent; /;
hef 1ather Is q native of MARYLAND, and superln-
tehoent OF the Naval Observatory.
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