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PGCJ.772.015
4 Apr 1772:22 (430)
The ceremony of taking the veil at Rome.
This morning I went to the Convent of St. Ursula, to see a
nun take the veil. The company was very numerous, and
composed chiefly of the first people of Rome, who were all
in full dress. . . The service was begun by saying mass;
then Cardinal de Rossi entered in great state, while the
organ was playing, and the mass was singing; the music, both
vocal and instrumental, was performed by the nuns and ladies
of the convent, who were placed in the organ-gallery. The
composition was pretty, but ill executed; the organ was a
bad one, and too powerful for the band; most of the best
hands, as I was informed, were occupied in the convent with
the internal ceremony, the external was all performed in the
chapel.
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