Crossword-Solution: BEATAS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Storms and snows vanished out of our ideal year; and then morning, noon, and night, wherever we breathed, we _felt_, what now we but _know_, the inmost meaning of that profound verse of Virgil the Divine-- "Devenere locos lætos, et amoena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas.

They were embraced by the greater part of the nuns of Santa Clara and of the Sistercian order of San Belem, and converts were found among the class of devout women, called in Spain _beatas_, who are bound by no particular rule, but addict themselves to works of charity.

Preguntaba por los fondos de cierta cofradía del Rosario, que no parecían, hablaba en términos irrespetuosos de las Hijas de María, y decía chuscadas a propósito de la novena, de las confesiones y de los escapularios con que se adornaban las jóvenes beatas de la villa.

Although the fathers of the Society do not have charge of it and its government, because of the prohibition in their statutes, it is, through the common error of the crowd, called "Las Beatas de la Compañia" ["Devout women of the Society"], for they hear mass, confess, and receive communion in their church at the college of the Society.

Accordingly, some _beatas_ [_i.e._, devout women] lived there in retreat for some years, in the care of the Dominican religious.