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2 unusual facts about Mary Joseph Butler


Mary Joseph Butler

She made her religious profession 4 November 1657, at the English Benedictine convent at Boulogne, at the age of sixteen.

On the closing of the Dublin convent, the Duke of Ormonde assured his cousin, Abbess Butler, of his special protection, should she consent to remain in Ireland, but she decided to return to Ypres, upon which the duke procured for her, from the Prince of Orange, a passport (still preserved at Ypres) permitting her and her nuns to leave the country without molestation.



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