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Updated: June 14, 2025
She took Beatrice up to the dormitory, showed her where she was to sleep, and gave her a seat on the form beside her at supper, which was almost immediately served. Beatrice noticed that whenever Eularia helped herself to any thing edible, she made the sign of the cross over it. "Why dost thou do that?" asked the young Jewess. "It is according to our rule," replied the nun.
"Sancta Hilaria, or a pro nobis!" "What language is that?" innocently asked Beatrice. "The holy tongue, of course." "It is not our holy tongue." "Have Jews a holy tongue?" responded Eularia, in surprise. "Yes, indeed, Hebrew." "I did not know they believed any thing to be holy. Have they any relics?" "I do not know what those are." Eularia led the way to the sacristy.
"But what can make you keep such things as those?" asked Beatrice, opening wide her lustrous eyes. "And this," enthusiastically added Eularia, opening another reliquary set with emeralds and pearls, "is our most precious relic, one of the small feathers from the wing of the holy angel, Saint Gabriel."
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