14 novembre 2018
Laurence Lux-Sterritt, « The monstrance, the thief and the Dominican nuns of Brussels », Early Modern English Nuns, ID : 10670/1.ox9xhk
Stories from the archives of the English convents in exile The English Dominican nuns of the second Order were founded by Cardinal Philip Howard at Vilvorde (near Brussel) in 1661; in 1669, they settled in what was to be their long-term house, locally known as the Spellikens, in Brussels. On 7 April 1705, the nuns were horrified to find that their monstrance, containing the Blessed Sacrament, had been stolen. For six weeks altogether, they prayed continually and sang the Great Litanies ...