There she was visited by an angel, who ordered her to found a convent in a certain spot, which a bear would indicate to her.

Henrietta had founded a convent at Chaillot in 1651, and she lived there for much of the 1650s.

She was a particularly austere and generous woman who founded a convent.

Laois, where they founded a convent and school which survives to this day.

She eventually founded a convent in Jerusalem which had about fifty nuns.

In 1282, she founded a second convent at Florence, where she died in 1310.

Nearby at Coyroux they founded a convent for 150 nuns along similar lines.

In 1549, she founded a convent in Athens and became its abbess.

He also founded a convent of nuns at roughly the same time.

The second bishop realized that some of the young women were as devout as he himself, and founded a convent.