Convent Of The Holy Infant Jesus
The Congregation of the Holy Infant Jesus (whose members use the postnominal initials of C.H.I.J.) is a religious institute of Religious Sisters founded by the French Minim friar, Father Nicholas Barré, to provide an education for underprivileged schoolchildren. Today, the IJ sisters and their lay volunteers have a presence in every continent, except North America and Oceania, through social projects and schools.
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“The nightingales are singing near
The Convent of the Sacred Heart,
And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud,
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”
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“The nightingales are singing near
The Convent of the Sacred Heart,
And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud,
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
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man whom predestined fate
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—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“...and the angels waited on him.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:13.
Of Jesus during the temptation.