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It is the only Benedictine community for nuns in Ireland and, like many other orders, is experiencing a serious decline in vocations.
The Benedictines and Franciscans were also represented by both priests and nuns.
There are many women who, as abbesses or as ordinary nuns, did much for learning and welfare.
While they waited for the disease to burn itself out, they entertained each other with racy stories about wicked priests and randy nuns.
The nuns wore special garb that day in addition to their wimples, belts, beads and veils.
Two nuns live in the monastery nowadays, who, always willingly and kind-heartedly, open the heavy door to visitors and offer them cool water.
A second branch of the clerical hierarchy was composed of nuns and monks who were members of the regular religious orders.
In England, for example, there were some fifty religious houses in 1066 and perhaps 1,000 monks and nuns.
The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals.
The church, through its nuns, priests, and laypeople, positions itself in direct opposition to tyranny and oppression.
Saints, mystics, spiritual writers, priests, nuns, and quintessential laywomen are well represented.
A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in a remote Himalayan community.
The white nuns who run the leprosarium insist that the entire staff wear rubber gloves when dealing with the mestizo patients.
In the emergency feeding centre, Malawian nuns feed withered infants with protruding ribcages an emergency mix.
At the same time, it's moving to see how panicked the older nuns are at the changes taking place in their formerly rock-solid world.
It's the sort of garment that nuns would approve of, as it renders a woman completely asexual.
She lived in a compound in the outback with Salesian nuns, about three hours drive from Nairobi, and survived on a diet of fruit and vegetables.
Things, though, go awry with the food poisoning, and the remaining nuns scramble to bury their dead.
It was the linen of nuns and convents rather than of brides and marriage beds.
Assembled for the meeting were theologians, pastors, priests, nuns, and lay church leaders.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In reply, he asked me to visit a house which had been made over into an obstetrical hospital for Belgian nuns.
The rich plaintive voice of one of the nuns in the choir, singing the Agnus Dei, moved me to a chill sort of wonder.
At that time a sisterhood of Carmelite nuns was driven from France to Antwerp.
At Cheshunt in 1367 the nuns declared that they often had to beg in the highways.
The nuns looked upon them with disfavor, and the pope withdrew his protection.
At Littlemore in 1445 the nuns did not sleep in the dorter for fear it should fall.
She and Joan Tates, a novice, had not slept in the dorter with the other nuns, but in a private chamber.
Another habit against which bishops constantly legislated was that of having the children to sleep in the dorter with the nuns.
At the same time, for better security, he ordered the nuns to be locked into their dorter every night until service time.
There, aided by nuns, she cared for and educated two hundred and fifty pupils, dowerless daughters of impoverished nobles.
Caesarius narrates a great many other exempla concerning nuns, but I have quoted the most characteristic.
When nuns have relapsed from other-worldliness to this-worldliness how have they been?
A marble tabernacle, decorated in mezzo-relievo and originally made for the nuns of the convent of the Murate.
Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking!
The premonstratensian nuns were not to sing in choir or church, and to pray in silence.
The nuns had ever been good and generous and helpful to the people of Quimper.
Only four of the nuns have taken the vows according to the regula.
He spoke to a priest who served a convent of Franciscan nuns.
There are capitals knitted of nuns and monks, shamelessly coupled, as on the hall of chimney pieces in the Palais de Justice, in Paris.
And I gnawed the rope and ran into the chapel to hide among the nuns.
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