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Updated: August 16, 2026
There are about forty chapters still in existence of this ancient order, with a royal residence at Prague. The abbess possessed the right to crown the queen at coronation ceremonies, and exercised it as late as 1836, wearing all the magnificent insignia of her rank in the order. A more numerous order of consecrated women, presided over and governed by one "mother-general," is that of St.
Winthrop had got some distance ahead; but he was walking slowly, and I soon overtook him. "Is it your custom to remain chatting with your friends after the sermon?" he asked, carelessly. "Oh, no; but a lady who sat near us fainted just as I was standing by her." "And, of course, as a sort of mother-general of the sorrowing, you stopped to comfort her?" "Yes; but a few drops of water sufficed.
Under the mother-general there are mother-superiors, one to each estate, administering and governing it, but under this mother-superior at Paris.
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