About Barbara Constable
Lived 1617 – 1684 (aged 66–67). Barbara Constable was a nun and writer.
Barbara Constable (1617–1684), professed as Dame Barbara Constable, was an English Benedictine nun, writer and transcriber. Her writing was a support to recusant Catholic communities and some of her transcriptions are the only known copies of Father Augustine Baker's works. Barbara Constable and her family were Roman Catholics.
Religious life Constable arrived in 1638 at the monastery of Our Lady of Consolation in Cambrai, France, which had been founded in the 1620s; she died there in 1684.
Writing Constable wrote and compiled devotional writing collections as well as transcribing the writings of Father Augustine Baker, spiritual director at Cambrai from 1624 to 1633 Some of her transcriptions of Baker's writings are the only known copies.
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Benedictine nun and writer (1617–1684)
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Barbara Constable died in 1684.
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Barbara Constable was a nun and writer.
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