Violet Buel
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Violet Buel
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Posted: 22 Dec 2007 3:51PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Buel, Hyde, MacDougall, Hillhouse
Now a Cloistered Nun
In Corpus Christi Monastery of the Sisters of St. Dominic at Hunt’s Point, New York city, on the 17th instant, Mrs. George Merriam Hyde, a widow, daughter of the late Oliver Prince Buel, made her solemn profession and will henceforth be known as Sister Mary of the Tabernacle. The community at Hunt’s Point is strictly cloistered, Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament being its specific note, and the ceremony of the 17th instant marked the aspirant’s permanent retirement from the world.
Among the conditions of life which Sister Mary of the Tabernacle has chosen are an almost perpetual fast, never eating any meat, long hours of prayer, severe silence except for an hour or so of “recreation” daily, lying on a hard board, extentuated by the thinnest of mattresses, and other severe flouts to natural inclinations.
Mrs. Hyde, or Violet Buel, was a convert to Catholicity, as was her entire family. Through her mother’s family, the MacDougalls, she has many affiliations with the army. Her maternal grandfather was General Charles MacDougall. Her mother married Lieutenant Colonel David Hillhouse Buel. Her uncle is Captain MacDougall. Mrs. Buel’s second husband was the late Oliver Prince Buel, the ninth and youngest son of David Buel, Jr., Troy, N.Y., first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Renssalaer county, and of Harriet Hillhouse, of the Connecticut family of that name. At the time of his death Oliver Prince Buel was senior partner in the firm of Buel, Toncey & Whiting, counsel to the United States Insurance Company.
Mrs. Buel and her two children became Catholics. Her son, Rev. David Hillhouse Buel, S.J., recently completed a most successful term as president of Georgetown University. He is now stationed at St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia.
(From "Our Parish Register," St. Columba's and St. Patrick's [NY].
October 1908
I have no further information.)
In Corpus Christi Monastery of the Sisters of St. Dominic at Hunt’s Point, New York city, on the 17th instant, Mrs. George Merriam Hyde, a widow, daughter of the late Oliver Prince Buel, made her solemn profession and will henceforth be known as Sister Mary of the Tabernacle. The community at Hunt’s Point is strictly cloistered, Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament being its specific note, and the ceremony of the 17th instant marked the aspirant’s permanent retirement from the world.
Among the conditions of life which Sister Mary of the Tabernacle has chosen are an almost perpetual fast, never eating any meat, long hours of prayer, severe silence except for an hour or so of “recreation” daily, lying on a hard board, extentuated by the thinnest of mattresses, and other severe flouts to natural inclinations.
Mrs. Hyde, or Violet Buel, was a convert to Catholicity, as was her entire family. Through her mother’s family, the MacDougalls, she has many affiliations with the army. Her maternal grandfather was General Charles MacDougall. Her mother married Lieutenant Colonel David Hillhouse Buel. Her uncle is Captain MacDougall. Mrs. Buel’s second husband was the late Oliver Prince Buel, the ninth and youngest son of David Buel, Jr., Troy, N.Y., first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Renssalaer county, and of Harriet Hillhouse, of the Connecticut family of that name. At the time of his death Oliver Prince Buel was senior partner in the firm of Buel, Toncey & Whiting, counsel to the United States Insurance Company.
Mrs. Buel and her two children became Catholics. Her son, Rev. David Hillhouse Buel, S.J., recently completed a most successful term as president of Georgetown University. He is now stationed at St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia.
(From "Our Parish Register," St. Columba's and St. Patrick's [NY].
October 1908
I have no further information.)