Mary Ann Foster (1784-1789)

Title: Mary Ann Foster (1784-1789) See all items with this value
Publisher: Moravian Lives Project
Date: 1829 See all items with this value
Type: Text
Format: image/pdf
Description: Biographical narrative and spiritual sketch of Mary Ann Foster, a child who frequented the Moravian Children's Meetings in Bristol and died at four and a half years old. The text captures a highly detailed example of Moravian childhood piety and the early internalizing of liturgy surrounding salvation, Christ's wounds, and a serene view of mortality. It documents her reactions to the funeral of her contemporary Maria Grinfield, her spiritual warning to a family servant, her premonition of her own death over an intended move to a school in London, and her explicit deathbed requests regarding a white Moravian choir-style burial processional. The account concludes with her death from a putrid sore throat and fever in April 1789.
Subject: Foster, Mary Ann, 1784-1789
Moravians--Biography
Children--Death--Religious aspects
Bristol (England)--History--18th century
Girls--Biography
Biographies See all items with this value
Identifier: Ful/SS/49
Language: eng
Extent: 8 pages
Rights Holder: Fulneck Moravian Archives, Fulneck, UK