Hieronymite

Sor Juana entered the convent of the Hieronymite nuns because it was the only way she could exercise her intellectual vocation.

There were Hieronymite nuns founded in 1375, who became very numerous.

Sabina is the Hieronymite Church and Convent of S. Alessio, the only monastery of Hieronymites in Italy where meat was allowed to be eaten,—in consideration of the malaria.

There are only six Hieronymite brethren here now.

The Heresy of Love The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon Until 9 MarchBox office: 0844 800 1110 http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/the-heresy-of-love/ Edmundson charts the struggles Sister Juana had to face as an Hieronymite nun who was also a writer: although patronised by the Spanish colonial court, she was up against an inflexible church establishment and the corrosive envy of some of her sisters.