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230 MARIA BOCCI IiA MOINETTE.
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comprising Regent history , have and the Bertha proudl valley Queen y enreg of the of istered Trans Lac- - de the Jurane - Joux noble Burgund to exertions improve y , a of king the Theodolinde dom countries then
whose endeavors over which narrower to they spread sp rei here gned the of . ble action "We ssings have , and of in not civilization Maria , feebler Bocci , not and another less knowled strenuous female ge ,
and thus ameliorate the condition of the people amongst whom she voluntarily dwelt , are chronicled by two of her compatriots , long
years after she 11 Her worldly task liad done , Ta ' en her wage , and home was gone . "
Side by side in soul , although immeasurably apart in all else successor ¦ from the , hap the less royal French Bertha princess , stands , and this her their more humble fortunate but invariabl yet German
illustrious course designated follower of active from . La the benevolence Moinette peculiarit , or y six little of centuries her monkess parentage after , as she , her commenced was prototype her of y her
glorious memory , Queen Bertha , had entered on her rest , when reign and her industry had passed into a proverb— the " The good hter time of
church an when Italian Bertha , ha < monk J courage rode , who and , and having spun princi . " _subsequentl p Maria le to confess Bocci y renounced the was sin , and daug the Romish
thenceforth devote himself to the care and education of its living witness . Long Switzerland affcer the several Reformation convents was were established secularised in the or larger dissolved cantons either of
on the plea , of alleged immorality , or because the , ancient buildings , being deemed dilap advisable idated , to and disperse the members the community diminishing and in numbers appropriate , it was the
rich funds of their corporation to public or charitable purposes . Under these circumstances the dispersed monks received a life
pension , and were commonly permitted to enter other religious institutions , or return to the world , as might best suit their inclination .
Giacomo or Jacques Bocci doubtless belonged to one of these suppressed sequestration amongst monasteries the wilds of their of , the and possessions , Jura after Al the ps , . had dissolution He soug died ht whilst of a retired his his order daug shelter hter had and
was in the first bloom of early womanhood , but not before she been imbued with some tinge of his scholastic learning , and the penitent sacred spirit of profession fri self ar - , denial whose must which voluntary have charact cost revelation erised him many his of later a pang this days shame was . The forg to poor iven his
the fault in the greatness of its expiation , and the atonement , made to society by the virtue with which he had inspired his exemplary
daughter . No tradition points to her maternal ancestry . From this utter silence it may be inferred that she was of gentle blood ;
born of one whose error was studiously concealed by shocked and sorrowing kindred . The same paucity of authentic information
exists as to her paternal relatives , easily accounted for by the
230 Maria Bocci Iia Moinette.
230 MARIA BOCCI IiA _MOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/14/
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