Friday, October 23, 2009

Sometimes you get lucky

Interesting day today. Met and had lunch with Robert Moynihan, who introduced me to this lady


Sr. Margarita is an American, 88 years old, and a member of the Religious Teachers Filippini, an order of active sisters founded to teach religion, which is actually, surprisingly, a rather rare charism.

And she's working to get Pius XII canonised.

You see these sisters around Rome quite a bit, with their little bonnets. But mostly they wear the modified bonnet. Not Sr. Margarita. I remember seeing her for the first time on the bus, wearing the full gear.


And this lovely bonnet with the pleated edges.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a coincidence, I was just reading the blog of this nice Dutch lady who wrote a thesis on frilled caps.

She made a reconstruction of a relic of St. Birgitte.

http://m-silkwork.blogspot.com/2008/11/womens-caps.html

- Karen

BillyHW said...

Is she the one who had the series on EWTN?

Anonymous said...

A bonnet revival would likely heal all schisms, restore the liturgy and save Western Civ. Where can I get one?