#prioress

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My priest father and I were at a convent to investigate the death of a nun, which for some reason was killed in a room filled with blue flowers.

The prioress offered us the best tasting apple pie I’ve ever had in a dream.

[scotianostra]

On 14th January 1529 after a long legal dispute, Euphemia Leslie secured her position as Prioress of Elcho near Perth.

Euphemia Leslie seems to have been the illegitimate daughter of Walter Leslie, the Parish Priest at Kirkton of Menmuir in what is today Angus. She was brought up in the Nunnery at Elcho, south east of Perth. The circumstances are unclear, but on 6 November 1526, Euphemia sought Papal dispensation to become Prioress of the Convent. She needed the dispensation because of her young age - she was only 18 - and because of her parentage.

This caused a problem, because there was already a sitting Prioress of Elcho, Elizabeth Swinton, who had no intention of relinquishing her post to Euphemia. Quite how this came about, and why Papal dispensation was given in light of this, is unclear. In 1527, Euphemia pressed her case more strongly by arriving at the nunnery with her brother and a hundred armed supporters, imprisoning Elizabeth Swinton in her rooms until she agreed to resign, which she duly did. The legal dispute between the two rumbled on until 14th January 1529, when Euphemia Leslie finally secured her position as Prioress.

Euphemia’s first move was to grant leases of land to her brother and to others who had supported her during her dispute with Elizabeth Swinton.

The Nunnery was damaged by the English in 1547 and had not recovered by the time of the Reformation in 1560. Elcho carried on in a diminished form after the Reformation.

When she died in 1570, Euphemia left a will (the only will left by a Scottish Prioress to have survived) in which she set out the pension rights of the nuns who remained at the nunnery.

Not much remains of the Abbey, the castle , as seen in the pic, which was adjoined to the Abbey has survived but only the occasional remnants of Elcho Abbey can be seen.

[goblinkick]

Paper Girls, Issues #16-20, covers.

Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Cliff Chiang (artist), Matt WIlson (colors), Jared K. Fletcher (letters).

Alt Ver. without title:

[vampireddreamland]

Prioress

And grandfather

i love how different prioress and grandfather are because prioress is more futuristic and grandfather dresses like my actual grandpa 💀

[scredgirl]

I finished Paper Girls last week and I already miss it 😔🤟 Adina Porter was fantastic as Prioress

[incorrectpapergirlsquotes]

Prioress: I could kill you if I wanted to, you know that Ms. Coyle?

Mac: Oh yeah? So could another human being.

Mac: So could a dog.

Mac: So could a dedicated duck.

Mac: You aren’t special, lady.

[messmouse]

Prioress: If you're smart, you should run away and never return.

KJ, confidently: Well, I'm not!

KJ: Running away that is.

KJ: I am smart.

[danskjavlarna]

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Conventual, not conventional: my modest collection of vintage nun imagery.