Dedicated to God

Description:

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.

subjects: Nuns,  Monastic and religious life of women,  Christianity,  Women, united states,  Colettines,  Biography,  Oral history,  Oral biography,  Corpus Christi Monastery (Rockford, Ill.)