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Dedicated to God : an oral history of cloistered nuns / Abbie Reese.

by Reese, Abbie.

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New York : Oxford University Press, c2014.

Corpus Christi Monastery (Rockford, Ill.)

Monastic and religious life of women -- Illinois -- Rockford.

Colettines -- Biography.

Oral history -- Illinois -- Rockford.

Oral biography.

9780199947935 (alk. paper) :

0199947937 (alk. paper)

Oxford oral history series.

xvii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Introduction -- Called / Sister Mary Monica -- Community life -- Called / Sister Maria Deo Gratias -- The claustrophobic nun -- Called / Sister Mary Michael -- Monastic living in a throwaway culture -- Called / Sister Mary Joseph -- Little house, big heart -- Called / Sister Mary Clara -- Mothers of souls -- Called / Sister Joan Marie -- The suffering servants -- Idealism and reality -- Called / Sister Ann Marie -- Erased from the landscape -- Called / Sister Mary Veronica.

As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois.

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