A VILLAGE OF NUNS.

Evening Star, Issue 3714, 18 January 1875, Page 3

A VILLAGE OF NUNS.

Although occasionally in Great Britain young ladies who are uncomfortable hotnr, or who And th. r the ploasun s of life are more than neut.rali;;e 1 by its duties, become Roman Catholics -nd immure themselves in convents, yet their disappearance from the world excites but little sensation outside of their own domestic circle. If, however, all the young ladies in Em.land “ took the veil ” en masse, it is jprobablo that society would rise “as one man,” and protest against the proceeding, Such a catastrophe has lately occurred at a Roumanian village, Beilina, Giurgevo, where not long ago certain Catholic priests came in for some hard usage from the inhabitants. The priests however, in spite of persecution, not only continued preaching, but preach d in such a persuasive manner that the hearts of all the ladies of Beilina became filled with pious ethusiasm More and more eloquent became the pri b s. and more and more ethusiastic became then fair an-'knees, until a religious epidemic ret in with the results which, as reported by the Towns, are positiv-ly frightful. A neigh boring convent wa? suddenly invaded by a host of village maidens, who insisted, notwithstanding the energetic opposition o t’m-ir lathers, brorhers, uac'es, cousins, and admirers, in ass ming the veil The majority of the marriageable girls of Beilin thus disappeared within the convent walla I’he religious party were exultant, while the unregenerate portion of the community were desperate. In an evil moment the priests incautiously determined to send the young novices to Bucharest and distribute them among the convents of that city. This was too much for the youth of Beilina to endure Headed by t> e ex sp rated and heraved relatives of the novices, the whole population of the village have, by latest account risen to oppose by force a departure which, acco.'d ing to the Towns, “ will close the door to hope, and lead to the ultimate depopulation of Beilina.”