volaverunt

Updated: July 14, 2025

There were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the latter had taken their departure. Volaverunt. The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits. In 1845, it still obtained lay-sisters here and there. But of professed nuns, none at all.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables