Capitolo 68
stronger to such extension that the apostle has proclaimed that the
head of the woman is never the man (me Cor. xi, 3), and in signal
thereof he ever offered him harbors his/her covered head (the ib. 5). For this
reasons I greatly marvel me to the customs in which you/they have walked to on all four
convents, from what, also as abbots have put reigning of the
men, abbesses authority is now given on the women and the women
tie in their votes to accept the same rules as the men.
They are still there in these rules a lot of things that cannot possibly be
performed by women, or as superiors or in the lowest orders.
In many places we can also see an inversion of the natural order
of things, from what the abbesses and nuns have authority on the
clergy, and even on those of what him am responsible the
people. The anymore the power such women practice on men, the more
easily they conduct them to them in iniquitous desires, and in this way
you/he/she can place a very heavy joke on their shoulders. It was with this way
things in mind that the satirists have said:
"There is no anything more intolerable of a rich woman."
(Juvenal, Saturday. You, v 459).
I CAPITULATE XV
OF THE DANGERS OF HIS/HER ABBEY IT IS OF THE REASONS FOR THE WRITING OF
THIS HIS/HER LETTER
Often reflecting on all these things, I determined to do
you provision for those sisters and to undertake their care in each
way that I was able. Besides, in order that is probable that they has the greatest
reveres for me, I worried me about to look above at them in person. And
since then the persecution continued by my children was now greater and
more incessant than that of what I previously suffered for cause
my brothers, I frequently returned to the nuns, while abandoning the anger of
the storm as to an I bring some peace. Indeed it was able there me, I draw
breath for a small in quiet, and among them my works it was
fertile, as they was never among the monks. All this it was of the
maximum benefit to me in body and soul, and it was equally essential