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Florence Catherine Flanagan helping to re-establish an order of nuns wiped out by the Reformation
By Simon Caldwell
3 July 2009
The Vatican has put a south London dressmaker on the road to canonisation for helping to re-establish an order of nuns wiped out by the Protestant Reformation.
Florence Catherine Flanagan was just 19 years old when she left Wimbledon for Rome with the aim of becoming a Bridgettine nun.
She soon found herself at the forefront of a drive to open Bridgettine convents throughout Europe - including the first in England since King Henry VIII dissolved the order’s Sion Abbey that stood on the River Thames at Brentford.
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By Simon Caldwell
3 July 2009
The Vatican has put a south London dressmaker on the road to canonisation for helping to re-establish an order of nuns wiped out by the Protestant Reformation.
Florence Catherine Flanagan was just 19 years old when she left Wimbledon for Rome with the aim of becoming a Bridgettine nun.
She soon found herself at the forefront of a drive to open Bridgettine convents throughout Europe - including the first in England since King Henry VIII dissolved the order’s Sion Abbey that stood on the River Thames at Brentford.
More…