FAINT VOICES OF THE CLOISTER. VOCATION LETTERS AT MONASTERY OF SAN CLEMENTE REAL SEVILLE

Abstract

Cloister nuns’ life has barely left tracks behind than those found in Registry Books and Vocation Letters. Letters record the ceremony that novice agrees and becomes engaged for life. Some of them are preserved at Monastery of San Clemente, one damaged from 17th century, none from 18th century, thirty three from 19th century and several more from 20th and 21th centuries. Letters from 19th century have been deeply transformated as they have used, adapting the text, for following vocations. Six of the nine letters found from 1904 to 1917, have been used too. From this period to present, amount of illuminated letters have been progressively decreasing.