Mary Bonaventure
b. circa 1610, Ireland; d. circa 1694, Ireland
Mary Bonaventure Browne served as abbess of a Franciscan convent of Poor Clares founded in 1642 in Galway, Ireland. Mary was apparently fluent in English, Irish, and Spanish. She wrote a memoir of her experiences in the Galway convent (1647–50), which was recently published as Recollections of an Irish Poor Clare in the Seventeenth Century (1993).
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