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Theresa within the enclosure of the Augustine Convent. She was permitted to stay at home through the festivities of her sister’s wedding, and on the day following this great event her clothes were packed, and, much against her own will, the young girl was taken away from her pleasant, cheerful home, and given into the charge of the Augustinian nuns.