This book tells the story of St. Margaret’s Convent, the first religious house founded in Scotland since the Reformation, and of its first religious sister, Agnes Xavier Trail. Through Trail’s autobiography, readers gain insight into the challenges faced by women seeking to establish religious communities in the turbulent political and religious climate of 19th-century Scotland.
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