| Content Description | Reports that the Queen of Spain has decided to re-establish a community of monks at the Escorial Palace; a seminary will be attached to it at which monks will educate students for secular professions; Father Claret, the Queen's confessor, will be appointed Superior of the house; the Papal Nuncio has hesitated to recommend its adoption due to the influence that Father Claret has over the Queen; a convent of nuns at Aranjuez is to be divided into three, with one third remaining at Aranjuez, one third moving to Madrid, and one third moving to San Ildefonso; the nuns will be under the direction of Patrocinio, whose influence in matters of state has at times compromised the interests of Spain; this reactionary step will probably have worse implications for the Queen's ministers than herself. |