by Koren Whipp Isabella Losa de Cardona (1491-1564) was born in Cardona, a town north of Barcelona, Spain. After the death of her husband in 1539, she became a Clarissan abbess and moved to Vercelli in Piedmont in 1553, where she founded an orphanage, Santa Maria di Loreto.[1] Losa is said to have mastered Latin,…
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Aebbe the Younger
by Koren Whipp Æbbe the Younger (d. 870) Abbess of Coldingham, Ireland. The Abby was founded as a double separate monastery for men and women by S. Æbbe the Elder in 642; in 660 he also founded Ebchester, in County Durham. At the time both were in the Kingdom of Northumbria, united by Æbbe…
Juliana Berners
by Sam Greenberg Juliana Berners [Bernes, Barnes, Barne] (d. c. 1460) cannot be authoritatively identified.[1] She may have been the prioress of Sopwell nunnery near St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, and the daughter of Sir James Berners of Essex .[2] The Book of St Albans, an early example of vernacular English provincial writing on practical…
Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld
by Gina Luria Walker Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld, called La Mère Angélique 1591 – 1661, one of twenty children and five sisters, was given to the worldly convent of Port-Royal des Champs near Paris against her wishes, by her parents because they couldn’t afford her dowry. Abbess Johanna von Boulehart chose Angélique as her successor at the…
