. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . igion as Sister Angela. The ceremony was asimple one. After the Mass, the postulant, hearken-ing to the invitation, ^Veni, Sponsa Christi, ap-proached the altar rail where she received the habit,scapular and veil of the Order and pronounced thesolemn promise to renounce the world and itsmaxims and to bear with fortitude the trials and pri-vations she had voluntarily taken upon , on the same day, according to the Constitutionaccepted by the sisters o
. Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue . igion as Sister Angela. The ceremony was asimple one. After the Mass, the postulant, hearken-ing to the invitation, ^Veni, Sponsa Christi, ap-proached the altar rail where she received the habit,scapular and veil of the Order and pronounced thesolemn promise to renounce the world and itsmaxims and to bear with fortitude the trials and pri-vations she had voluntarily taken upon , on the same day, according to the Constitutionaccepted by the sisters of the Third Order of SaintDominic, Father Wilson gave the habit toMary Carrico, Sister Margaret; Judith McMahon,Sister Magdalen; and Severly Tarleton, Sister Co-Jumba, in Saint Magdalen Chapel. Father Wilson was assisted by the Rev. R. , 0. P., who on the same day was appointed thesisters first chaplain. He gave the sisters the Ruleand Constitution which Father Wilson had trans-lated from the latin, and the approval of which theRev. R. L. Concanen had secured from Pope PiusVII and from the Pro-Vicar General of the < The Foundation 49 The manuscript Rule and Constitution were takenfrom those of the sisters of the Second Order andadapted to the conditions and the times. The sisterswere to make only simple vows, but it was stated inthe formula used in their profession: Whereas, forwant of proper enclosure I cannot make solenmvows, but simple ones, my wish and intentions are,as soon as proper enclosure can be procured, to joinin petitioning His Holiness to allow us to makesolemn vows as the nuns of the Second Orderusually make.* As soon as the sisters had received the habit, theyappealed to Father Wilson to appoint a wisely advised them to consult among themselvesand to decide upon the one they thought best fittedfor the position. The choice fell upon Sister AngelaSansbury. Father Wilson appealed to the Pro-VicarGeneral, the Very Rev. Pius M. Viviani,
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