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Priceless Spirit: A History of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, 1841-1893. By M. Georgia Costin. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. xii, 2G8 pp. 824.85, ISN 0-268-03804-X.)
Sister M. Georgia Costin, in Priceless Spirit, turns her attention to the widely neglected subject of Catholic women who lived in religious congregations. Costin examines the early United States history of a specific group, the Sisters of the Holy Cross, who are perhaps best known for Saint Mary's College, in Notre Dame, Indiana.
This book seeks to rework previous accounts of the congregation's formative years in the United States, to unravel contradictory information from that epic, and to reassess long-standing interpretations of the congregation's early leaders. It does so by drawing on the materials in the congregational archives of the Sisters of...