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Sister Belén de la Cruz received the Carmelite habit on March 25, 2006.
The Catholic Association of Propagandists hosted a conference Nov. 15 titled “What’s the use of a cloistered nun in the 21st century?”
According to its statutes, the Spanish group is “a private association of lay faithful who want to respond to their vocation to holiness through the evangelization of public life and the organization of social structures, according to the requirements of the kingdom of God.”
The conference focused on the life of Sister Belén de la Cruz, a Spanish Carmelite nun who, in 2018, like Christ, died at age 33. Estanislao Pery, the nun’s father and author of the book “Belén: Discalced Carmelite, Our Daughter,” was scheduled to give a presentation.
Simplicity, Charity, and Dedication Without Reservations
It is tradition that, when a Carmelite nun dies, her sisters write a “letter of recommendation,” a review of her life to be distributed to the convents and among the friends and benefactors of the order.
In the case of Sister Belén de la Cruz, this letter aroused great interest from the very beginning — so much so that the mother prioress of the convent of the Virgen de la Sierra in San Calixto, Spain, had to print more than a thousand copies to satisfy the demand. It was then that her parents, Estanislao Pery and María Osborne, decided to write Belén’s biography.
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The Catholic Association of Propagandists hosted a conference Nov. 15 titled “What’s the use of a cloistered nun in the 21st century?”
According to its statutes, the Spanish group is “a private association of lay faithful who want to respond to their vocation to holiness through the evangelization of public life and the organization of social structures, according to the requirements of the kingdom of God.”
The conference focused on the life of Sister Belén de la Cruz, a Spanish Carmelite nun who, in 2018, like Christ, died at age 33. Estanislao Pery, the nun’s father and author of the book “Belén: Discalced Carmelite, Our Daughter,” was scheduled to give a presentation.
Simplicity, Charity, and Dedication Without Reservations
It is tradition that, when a Carmelite nun dies, her sisters write a “letter of recommendation,” a review of her life to be distributed to the convents and among the friends and benefactors of the order.
In the case of Sister Belén de la Cruz, this letter aroused great interest from the very beginning — so much so that the mother prioress of the convent of the Virgen de la Sierra in San Calixto, Spain, had to print more than a thousand copies to satisfy the demand. It was then that her parents, Estanislao Pery and María Osborne, decided to write Belén’s biography.
Continued below.
Is a Cloistered Nun Still ‘Useful’ Today? The Life of Sister Belén de la Cruz
Sister Belén de la Cruz received the Carmelite habit on March 25, 2006.
