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Six months in a convent, or, The narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, who was under the influence of the Roman Catholics about two years, and an inmate of the Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, Mass., nearly six months, in the years 1831-2

Reed, Rebecca Theresa, ca. 1813-, 1835. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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Reed, Rebecca Theresa, ca. 1813-

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Boston : Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf; New York, N. Hall; [etc., etc.]

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1835

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'- , • THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES X •». •*v» ^ • j • -j V ^ SIX MONTHS IN A CONVENT, ^ ;.-..- . \ x n < OR, THE NARRATIVE OP REBECCA THERESA REED, WHO WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE ROMAN CATHO- LICS ABOUT TWO YEARS, AND AN INMATE OF THE URSULINE CONVENT NEARLY SIX MONTHS, IN THE YEA WITH SOME PRELIMINARY SUGGESTIONS BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. BOSTON : RUSSELL, ODIORNE & METCALF- NEW- YORK, NELSON HALL, JOHN ST. ; PHILADELPHIA, WILLIAM MARSHALL AND CO. ; CINCINNATI, C. )'. BARNES; AND ALL THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN THE U. STATES. 1835. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAH 1835, BY RUSSELL, ODIORNE AND METCALF, IN THE CLERK'g OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF MASSACH PSETTS. Bureotj-ped bj Shcpard, Oll»er ft Uo. PRELIMINARY SUGGESTIONS FOR CANDID READERS. IT is related in the history of the Reformation, that about the middle of the year 1320, Martin Luther published in his native language a little treatise, in which he ad- dressed the emperor and German nobility on the necessity of a reformation in the church. Some friends of Luther, however, there were, who were startled at the boldness of the publication, and CONSIDERED IT AS THE SIGNAL FOR WAR; but the more thinking and judicious part of mankind looked on this measure as the wisest step which, even in n merely worldly and prudential light, could possibly have been taken to render contemptible and abortive the ex- pected fulmination of the Roman court. This little treatise was the origin of that immense move- ment in public sentiment, the Protestant refotm in the church. No sooner was it known, than Leo X. issued that famous damnatory bull against Luther, which in the event proved so fatal to the established hierarchy. The writings of Luther, though at that period they were of a mild and persuasive character, were condemned as hereti- cal, scandalous, and offensive to pious ears ; all persons were forbidden to read them upon pain of excommunica- tion ; such as had any in their custody were commanded to burn them ; and he himself, if he did not in sixty days send or bring his retraction to Rome, was pronounced an obsti- nate heretic, was excommunicated, and delivered unto Sa- tan for the destruction of his flesh. We do not propose to institute a grave comparison be- tween Luther's little treatise in the sixteenth century and the Narrative of a six months' residence in a Convent in tha nineteenth century, but there are some points of resefn- . rr <r 4 INTRODUCTION. blance in the treatment of the two cases that are not altogether unapt. In August, 1831, a young lady, then eighteen years of age, a daughter of one of our fellow-citizens residing in Charles- town, became an inmate of the Community of Nuns esta- blished at Mount Benedict in that town, and voluntarily submitted for some time to a course of study and disci- pline designed to prepare her to become a teacher in the Convent, and a religious recluse for life of the Ursuhne order. After a residence of about six months, she be- came dissatisfied with the religious profession she had em- braced, and desired to return to her friends, against whose wishes she had renounced the Protestant for the Catholic faith. Having sufficient reason for believing that her re- turn to the world would be opposed, and having no means of c

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