Sacred Calling

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Princess Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was the daughter of King Louis VIII. She wished to form a community of Sisters minor. A new monastery was named the Convent of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The nuns were called the Humble Order of Servants of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. Isabelle did not join the community.

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Louise Hollandine (1622-1709) was the daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart. On September 19, 1660 she became a nun in the Cistercian Maubuisoon Abbey.

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Isabella of France was the wife of King Edward II of England. She took the nun's habit of the Poor Clares before her demise on August 22, 1358 at Hertford Castle.

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Queen Eleanor of Provence (Queen Consort of England) changed her title when she entered the convent. She styled herself 'a humble nun of the order of Fontevrault vof the convent of Amesbury'. She did not choose to retire altogether humbly. She never became a fully professed nun.

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Elizabeth Henriette Amalia of Lippe-Detmold (1721-1793) was the daughter of Count Simon Henry Adolph of Lippe-Detmold. She was abbess of Cappel Abbey in Lippstadt and St. Mary's Abbey in Lengo in 1751.

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Ottilee (1470-1490) of Baden was the daughter of Margrave Christopher I of Baden. She was Abbess in Pforzheim.

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Landgravine Anna Sophia of Hesse-Darmstadt (1638-1683) was the daughter of Landgrave George II of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1655 she entered Quedlinbury Abbey. She became the abbess in 1681.