In this presentation, Dr. Joseph Mannard reveals how American Catholic leadership, male and female, engaged in successful damage control following the 1831 flight from Georgetown Visitation Convent of Sister Ann Gertrude Wightt, America’s first “runaway nun.” The story is drawn from Mannard’s new book, The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt: How a Runaway Nun Became a Grand Lady of Washington, DC, Society (Georgetown University Press.) |
