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  • The best kept secret in Canada's Quebec maritime is Les Isles de la Madeleine, www. tourismeilesdelamadeleine.com/magdalen-islands an isolated archipelago of seven inhabited islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with only 15,000 residents.

    Margie Goldsmith: Les Isles de la Madeleine (Magdalen Islands), Canada 2010

  • Part of the land became the home of the School for the Indigent Blind, with a magdalen hospital and a home for female orphans nearby.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Part of the land became the home of the School for the Indigent Blind, with a magdalen hospital and a home for female orphans nearby.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Part of the land became the home of the School for the Indigent Blind, with a magdalen hospital and a home for female orphans nearby.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Sisters from the mother-house of Algersdorf, Graz, 9, with 1 institution 1 magdalen asylum, with 17 canonesses, and 15 lay sisters; Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross, 3, with one establishment; Sisters of the Teutonic Order, 9, with one hospital; 1

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • And bitter tears mingled with the salt brine flashing by -- the tears of a repentent magdalen.

    The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

  • Had you, Mrs. Douglas, put on (as became you) the garb of a magdalen; and solicited through me, the means to bring up your child, and support yourself in a state of penitence, and humility; if I had not succeeded in my application to your paramour, there are well disposed christians, there are some virtuous women, who would not with-hold their alms from so pious a purpose.

    Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale 1789

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  • mawdlin

    August 2, 2008

  • Or indeed maudlin :)

    January 2, 2009