The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-06
EXlLED NUNS HERE
Dominican Sisters Settle In New
Home Near Baltimore.


In 1 severely unpretentious house,
whose uncurtained windows stare
plankly out on Mount Druid Hill, Baiti.
more, the FIRST OF the exiled nuns OF
france have found = temporary shelter
The house Is now called the Convent OF
the Perpetual Rosary, and the sisters
are the Dominican nuns OF Rouen, whose
convert OF Bon Secours was closed by
order IL the French government. 1t IL
evidently their intention to settle per
mansntly In the United States. for they
have purchased, at Iryington, near Bal
timore, IS acres OF ground, on which Is
a pretty house, containing 10 rooms.
The property cost $4,000, and an archi.
tect has been instructed to prepare
plans for chapel and other improve
nsnts 1t cost OF 500, 900.
The house Is now being transformed
into convent. When all is ready the
sisters IN the old world will be notified
and a general pilgrimage to America will
be begun. BY that time the convent
grounds win be inclosed by a wall IL
Net high, which will shut from the view
II the world the Sisters Of the Ancient
order Of st, Dominic. when the gates
ave closed on the exiled nuns they VIII
seldom afterward be seen outside thelr
convent grounds.
The Order Of ST. Dominic Is a curious
one III that It's discipline Ia little more
elastic than that OF most bodies OF the
Kind, The aim OF the founder appears to
have been To consecrate to the service
OF the church such talents as men and
women possessed, rather than to cloister
beings who would thereafter be OF little
use "a humanity, and the Dominican nun
who has a talent for art in any form
nav devote her life to Its cultivation
The French nuns embroider the mag.
nihcent vestments worn by dgnitaries
of the church and fashion statues and
uaint pictures to adorn sacred structures
The order Is one OF the most progressive
I'm the Roman Catholic church, and there
are already many Dominican sisters in
American cities.
They visit the sick, teach In school, al
AZ mothers I'm the institutions fo'
fonndling wallis, provide employment
for old women and homes for WORKING
girls. In appearance they are scarcely
10 be DISTINGUISHED from other Roman
Catholic orders, for over the ghostl,
white costume. which is said to hav'
been revealed to ST. Dominic by tn
Blessed Virgin herself, they wear when
aver they leave their converts biacl
mantle. which nearly covers It. Away
worn conspIcuously, however. Is tn
rosary. for 81. Dominic is credited witt
having introduced this religious symbol
The sisters decline to discuss the,
plans for life In this country or the cause
which led to their emigration. They dc
elared that they bore no III will to thei
prosecutors In France, and even regard
cd the action Of the French governmen
With some degree OF satisfaction, sine
II had led to their coming TO America an
finding an Ideal home. Their only %
sire now. they say, is 10 retire from tn
world and fulfil their various mission
quietly ard without ostentation.
PsntiRs Once We're Red.
There are many people who vii
doubtless be interested TO know tina
I, is only since the thirteenth centur
thar the popes have been accustome
To wear white. Until that time the