Excerpt from The Bridgettine Order: Its Foundress History and SpiritSyon Abbey has a story that should make all stand at gaze. For five centuries indeed have these Englishwomen - and they alone in religious or worldly life - clung together.All these centuries have gone to dust about them: but that is far from all. Far less in our eyes is their survival, wondrous as it is, than the extraordinary protection given them by God.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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