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When still a young girl Juana Ines became a maid-in waiting in the viceroy's palace, where her beauty and wit attracted much attention. But she soon renounced the worldly life of the court, and apparently moved by a determination never to marry, joined a religious order. In the convent of San Jeronimo she turned for solace to books. She was an indefatigable reader, and in time she accumu lated a library of four thousand volumes, as well as several musical instruments and some scientific apparatus. Two years before her death Sor Juana received from the bishop of Puebla a letter that affected her greatly. The bishop censured her devotion to worldly studies, and urged her to give her mind thereafter entirely to God. The sister, who was now forty-two years old, complied with the advice even more fully than the good bishop had intended. After selling her books and instruments and giving the proceeds to the poor, Sor Juana made a general confession, wrote with her own blood a solemn declaration of faith, and renouncing all worldly things during the remaining months of her life, she gave herself entirely to religious meditation and penance.
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When still a young girl Juana Ines became a maid-in waiting in the viceroy's palace, where her beauty and wit attracted much attention. But she soon renounced the worldly life of the court, and apparently moved by a determination never to marry, joined a religious order. In the convent of San Jeronimo she turned for solace to books. She was an indefatigable reader, and in time she accumu lated a library of four thousand volumes, as well as several musical instruments and some scientific apparatus. Two years before her death Sor Juana received from the bishop of Puebla a letter that affected her greatly. The bishop censured her devotion to worldly studies, and urged her to give her mind thereafter entirely to God. The sister, who was now forty-two years old, complied with the advice even more fully than the good bishop had intended. After selling her books and instruments and giving the proceeds to the poor, Sor Juana made a general confession, wrote with her own blood a solemn declaration of faith, and renouncing all worldly things during the remaining months of her life, she gave herself entirely to religious meditation and penance.
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