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BRENT, MARY MARGARET

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Article: 186 years of Carmelite history, The Catholic Review, 1976, 10/22/1976

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 17
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.987
Scope and Contents

Article: 186 years of Carmelite history: Sisters organizing books, artifacts from The Catholic Review, 10/22/1976, on the rare books and archives of the Baltimore Carmel.

Dates: 10/22/1976

Article: The Carmelites in America: in USCM, 1849, 1/13/1849-1/20/1849

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.869
Scope and Contents

An article from the United States Catholic Magazine entitled "The Carmelites in America", published in Vol. 8, No. 2, and in Vol.8, No. 3.

Dates: 1/13/1849-1/20/1849

Biography: Mother Mary Margaret Brent, n.d.

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: GAMMS.1.2.60
Scope and Contents

This consists of two brief biographies of Mother Mary Margaret of the Angels Brent. One is a copy of a manuscript kept in Ghent, made by Reverend P. Corballis, OSB, in 1928. The second is a sketch composed by Mrs. Isabelle Hagerty, a member of the Restorers Guild, at the time of the restoration of Port Tobacco in 1936.

Dates: 1600-1950; Majority of material found in 1750-1950

Community Life/Spirituality: Brent's regulations for superiority, 1780, 1/1/1780

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: GAMMS.1.2.64
Scope and Contents

On "the sentiments of our Venerable Mother" concerning her duties as superior. 8 pages, written on reverse of notes of letters by others.

Dates: 1/1/1780

Correspondence: Fragment, Brussels, 3/19/1784, 3/19/1784

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 13
Identifier: GAMMS.1.2.72
Scope and Contents

Author, unknown, mentions failed health of Mother Mary Margaret Brent and aims of Fr. Plunkett to remain in Brussels.

Dates: 3/19/1784

History: Antwerp/Hoogstraet, Lists, biographies of Superiors,1776, 1/1/1776

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: GAMMS.1.2.61
Scope and Contents

Lists the superiors at Antwerp and Hoogstraet, plus names of Sisters who established Lierre. Written in the hand of Mother Mary Margaret Brent, the last notation concerning the twenty-first superior at Antwerp, is in hand of Mother Clare Joseph. (See also Currier, Carmel in America, p.357.

Dates: 1/1/1776

Kelly Research: A Carmelite Shrine in Maryland, 1950, autographed

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 33
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.1135
Scope and Contents

Laurence Kelly Research: An autographed booklet entitled: A Carmelite Shrine in Maryland, written by Laurence J. Kelly, SJ, in 1950; subtitled: The Carmelites Come To America.

Dates: 1674-1990; Majority of material found in 1800-1990

Kelly Research: A Southern Maryland Shrine, 1940

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 32
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.1134
Scope and Contents

Laurence Kelly Research: A Southern Maryland Shrine, a booklet published in 1940, the year the Carmelite Nuns celebrated "the sesquicentennial of the introduction of their Order into this country."

Dates: 1674-1990; Majority of material found in 1800-1990

Kelly Research: The Foundress of Carmel in America- Mo. Seraphim, 1936

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 37
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.1139
Scope and Contents

Laurence Kelly Research: Mother Seraphim's notes on "The Foundress of Carmel in America," including chronologies for Mother Clare Joseph and Mother Mary Margaret Brent. This manuscript gives three reasons why "Mother Clare Joseph is considered the principle Foundress of the Carmelite Nuns in the United States."

Dates: 1674-1990; Majority of material found in 1800-1990

Lanherne: Corresp, M. Teresa of Jesus, 1886-1888, 12/12/1886-12/31/1888

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 32
Identifier: GAMMS.1.3.105
Scope and Contents

Community news: death of memmbers; answers to questions posed; information on American foundation copied, concerning Mr. De Villegas d'Estainbourg amd foundation, on prioresses; repeats that records of CJ's lost; reports that devotion to "Our Lady's Bondage" has "so entirely died out" and this may be so because it was not approved by church; Reverend Mother's operation, use of chloroform; cause of her illness, poisoning through repairing.

Dates: 12/12/1886-12/31/1888

Lanherne: Corresp, re history of Antwerp, M.Brent, 1961, 04/09/1961

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 36
Identifier: GAMMS.1.3.109
Scope and Contents Details on history, entrance of Mother MM Brent (10/10/1752) listed as at age 28; Clare Joseph's profession (6/3/1773); her birth at Middlesex, England, 18 years previous; beginnings of Lanherne (1793 sic). Sent by M. Xavieria of the Angels. (n.b., Although the age at date of entrance for Mary Margaret is given as 28, all other sources give it as 18 b. 9/1/1731 as nun at Antwerp), see Chester Horton Brent, The Descendants of Coll Giles Brent, Capt George Brent, and Robert Brent, Gent (Tuttle...
Dates: 04/09/1961

Notes: History of Carmel, by S. Mary Joseph Daly, ca 1944

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 10
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.981
Scope and Contents

Notes on the history of Carmel written by Sister Mary Joseph Daly including: notes on the foundresses, development of Carmel in America, Carmel in England, death notices from England and America, information on The Pious Guide, and extracts from correspondence. Handwritten manuscript on scrap papers.

Dates: 1674-1990; Majority of material found in 1800-1990

Personnel: Anniversaries, Nuns of Antwerp, ca 1780s, 1/1/1780

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1; Series Series 2; Series Series 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: GAMMS.1.2.62
Scope and Contents

This lists the nuns of the English monastery at Antwerp, from 1697-1756, and of superiors, 1678-1784. There is a notation that reads "on death of our most dear esteemed beloved Mother Mary Margaret of the Angels" d. Oct 18, 1784 (21 days after she left office).

Dates: 1/1/1780

Scrapbook, page 49, 1875, 1882

 File — Box 4: Series Series 3, Folder: 49
Identifier: GAMMS.3.17.502
Scope and Contents

Why I became a Catholic: lecture at Chestertown, MD, by Rev. Father Curtis, cont.; Divine love; The names of Our Lady; The place of the Crucifixion; St. Teresa: a very interesting article on her daughters in America; Monthly triduum in New Orleans, in honor of St. Teresa.

Dates: 1674-1990; Majority of material found in 1800-1990

Sermon: On the 150th Anniversary of Carmel in America, Oct 20, 1940, 10/20/1940

 File — Box 6: Series Series 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: GAMMS.3.28.875
Scope and Contents

Sermon: On the Occasion of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Coming of Carmel to Maryland. Delivered at the Shrine of the first Carmel, Charles County, Maryland, Sunday, October 20, 1940; no author, typed manuscript, 18 pages. Includes a list of the religious and secular names of the four foundresses and those who entered Carmel at Port Tobacco and a list of foundations in the United States.

Dates: 10/20/1940