Sisters of St. Joseph in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
by
Marguerite Vacher
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of...