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Show IM8LX1NKS. Somewhere near the seventies a con vent of Ursuline sisters in Cracow, Austrian Aus-trian Poland, was entored by the police and a nun, Barbara Ubrick by name, found therein, who for eighteen years had been walled in, as mall orifice barely bare-ly sufficient to pass ber food through, being the only means of communication left to her with the other inmates. A heap of decayed straw comprised her bed and the rats of the convent with whom she seemod on intimate terms were her only companions. Of course the Woman was demented and so accustomed accus-tomed had she become to the foul air about ber that she died soon after she was rescued and forced Into a purer atmosphere. - . Recently the convent of the Buried Alive, in Naples, Italy, when visited by government authorities, was found to contain sisters in a similar condition and yesterday like dlsooveries were made at Tincuraboli, Italy, both houses being In charge of the Ursuline order. At a time when education was not as common as it is today the Ursuline .sisters .sis-ters devoted themselves assiduously to the task of teaching female children and especially in France under the celebrated cel-ebrated sister Madolelne de St. Beuve they achieved considerable renown in that respect and they may fairly claim the merit of having been mainly Instrumental Instru-mental in maintaining among Catholics the education of the girls of the higher classes through Vibe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They have convents con-vents Id France, Italy, Germany,' Austria, Aus-tria, Ireland, England and the United States; but in modern times they have found many competitors among the younger sisterhoods and restricted themselves mostly to a life of penance and discipline in some instances akin to torturo. It seems the ecclesiastical authorities au-thorities object to the visitation of the police as a violation of mnnasterial laws, while the government claims not only the right to Interfere but to prosecute prose-cute the former under the penal code. The result whatever it may be will not tend to modify the hostile feeling already al-ready existing between the Vatican and the Qulrinal. |