It is the only Benedictine community for nuns in Ireland and, like many other orders, is experiencing a serious decline in vocations. |
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The Benedictines and Franciscans were also represented by both priests and nuns. |
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There are many women who, as abbesses or as ordinary nuns, did much for learning and welfare. |
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While they waited for the disease to burn itself out, they entertained each other with racy stories about wicked priests and randy nuns. |
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The nuns wore special garb that day in addition to their wimples, belts, beads and veils. |
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Two nuns live in the monastery nowadays, who, always willingly and kind-heartedly, open the heavy door to visitors and offer them cool water. |
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A second branch of the clerical hierarchy was composed of nuns and monks who were members of the regular religious orders. |
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In England, for example, there were some fifty religious houses in 1066 and perhaps 1,000 monks and nuns. |
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The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals. |
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The church, through its nuns, priests, and laypeople, positions itself in direct opposition to tyranny and oppression. |
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Saints, mystics, spiritual writers, priests, nuns, and quintessential laywomen are well represented. |
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A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in a remote Himalayan community. |
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The white nuns who run the leprosarium insist that the entire staff wear rubber gloves when dealing with the mestizo patients. |
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In the emergency feeding centre, Malawian nuns feed withered infants with protruding ribcages an emergency mix. |
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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. |
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It's the sort of garment that nuns would approve of, as it renders a woman completely asexual. |
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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. |
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Things, though, go awry with the food poisoning, and the remaining nuns scramble to bury their dead. |
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It was the linen of nuns and convents rather than of brides and marriage beds. |
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Assembled for the meeting were theologians, pastors, priests, nuns, and lay church leaders. |
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While girls picked fights with other inmates they often saved their fury for the matrons and nuns who oversaw them. |
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The mass was said in Totonac by a Nahuatl-speaking priest and nuns who had learned Totonac. |
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An additional letter of support came from nuns in twenty-two other Benedictine communities. |
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He was especially well known among the religious sisters, the nuns of that time. |
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He seems to have established a firm exploitation of monasteries and he misconducted himself with nuns. |
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The white nuns who came here made a big effort to try and teach your mother. |
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The first time he calls for her, he pretends to the nuns that he is her father and to the girl that her biological parent sent him. |
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There are also monasteries where monks and nuns practice a life of religious devotion and scholarship. |
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Soon the effects of the new teaching were widely felt, with monks and nuns leaving their monasteries and convents. |
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Both forms of ordination require a quorum of five ordained monks or nuns with a minimum of ten years in the Order. |
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And then there were the 40 or 50 lesser nuns following behind her, two by two, just like a parade of schoolchildren on a daytrip. |
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By masking all other parts of the painting we were able to isolate the information that each volunteer needed to see either the nuns or Voltaire. |
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Bridget was just two weeks old when her mother, who was unmarried, left her in the care of the nuns. |
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Aging populations of nuns, brothers and priests still reside in large properties throughout the state. |
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The Committee also wishes to invite all priests, nuns and brothers who are natives of the Parish. |
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And the nuns had black uniforms and black and white veils, which disguised their faces and covered their hair. |
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The nuns bustled Julie and her family down to the end of the furthest row, by the wall. |
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Even in countries where women can take monastic vows, nunneries tend to be poorer and nuns hold lower status than monks. |
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A cluster of old nuns flit around Byzantine style interiors while a bitter monk shows me his pet dog and cat aptly called Billy and Monica. |
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Inside, the nuns and their guests were making a novena to the Sacred Heart. |
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His taste for images dated from his novitiate and is marked by a sensibility comparable to that of the nuns he later governed. |
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He and other engineers huddled over the gun like nuns inspecting a novitiate, but they could find no flaw. |
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Now Wats are inhabited by monks, teachers, nuns, novitiates, school children, street-side sellers and tourists. |
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There are teachers, nuns, novitiates, school children, street vendors and even tourists. |
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Once the ceremony was over, the novitiates, priestesses and nuns gathered together in the great hall beneath the statue of Auset for a feast. |
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Then, as if some invisible nuclear winter descended on southern Louisiana, the nuns died out and disappeared from the face of the Earth. |
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Like Whitby in Northumbria, several of the Kentish minsters had been double houses, comprising communities of nuns and monks ruled by an abbess. |
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A Jesuit uncle, then chaplain to the Seattle community of Carmelite nuns, made an emergency appeal for prayers. |
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A number of priests and nuns were killed, and churches and convents were torched. |
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Once a year I spend a weekend at a Buddhist monastery populated by a community of monks and nuns. |
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During the 500's, Saint Benedict of Nursia established monasteries where monks and nuns lived in separate communities. |
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These monks and nuns live in their monasteries or nunneries all the rest of their lives, with no contact with the outside world. |
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By 1216 there were approximately 700 houses and some 13,000 monks, nuns, canons, and canonesses. |
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Priests and nuns were known to kidnap Baptists and force them to become papists. |
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When anticlerical legislation sought to curb the power of the clergy institutionally, nuns and priests made pastoral work welfare work. |
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A few feet away, a group of priests, nuns and Protestant ministers sang hymns while they waited to be removed. |
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Monks, and occasionally nuns, were among the most famous liturgical hymnographers. |
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We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns. |
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They spoke personally about nuns who dedicated their lives to teaching in poor neighborhoods for little pay. |
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Most early accounts of incubi involved nuns as victims, although there were also virtuous women and priests. |
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It is the only Benedictine community for nuns in Ireland and is experiencing a serious decline in vocations. |
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The nuns, most dressed informally in pants or skirts, gave her a standing ovation. |
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Her nuns, by their own admission, weren't very good at singing, with their plainsong and intoning more than a little out of tune! |
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The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for contemplative life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us. |
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Bishops, priests and nuns, both Rwandese and foreign, were involved in Rwanda's politics. |
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Today, there are not so many Irish nuns and priests but they are part of the folk memory. |
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The nuns had a special social role in care for the sick and in rescuing foundlings. |
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A convent was founded close by the site of the old gallows, and a small group of snooker-playing nuns still pray for the souls of the dead. |
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For example, at Loudon, France, a prioress, Sister Jeanne des Anges, was part of a contagious outbreak of writhing, convulsing nuns. |
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Sometimes inheritance disputes began with professed nuns claiming a portion of a brother's estate. |
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For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony. |
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If she wasn't beating us herself, she was delivering us up to the nuns for a whack. |
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All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishments. |
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Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns. |
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Eleven thousand monks, nuns, and their dependants were ejected from their communities, most with little or no compensation. |
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She was educated by British nuns who insisted on public-school elocution, and there you are yet again. |
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He then progressed through a variety of lovers including nuns, novices, duchesses, prostitutes, peasants and rich old ladies. |
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The monk and nuns accused of killing her said they had been exorcising her of evil spirits. |
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Kellie Mackereth plays the lead role as Mother Superior with Michelle Raisbeck, Jessica Yates, Andrea Collins and Crystal Cleghorn as the other principle nuns. |
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Three young nuns, all sisters-in-law of his sons, superintended the staff of twenty-five teachers on the payroll, and they took his surname as theirs under vows. |
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It was still dark, of course, and our coach was full of elderly nuns and young children in pushchairs, all carrying picnics and giant thermoses of tea. |
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The rebel leader also prays within concentric circles drawn in ash or pebbles and has a choir of young girls, some dressed as nuns, to sing his praises. |
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Autobiographies of overly ambitious youth relate how they were harassed by their classmates and warned against the sin of pride by the priest and nuns. |
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First of all, this telecast featured some of the best singing nuns since Whoopi Goldberg was Back in the Habit. |
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She brought choice cuts of meat to the porter's dog, and ordered full meals for the gaunt nuns who came to collect alms at awkward hours of the day. |
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We need to think about the nuns who stood at a sink for 60 years washing delph to augment the measly contribution of the state to the care of the young. |
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Today, there are eighteen Benedictine nuns in Kylemore Abbey. |
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At a gathering of nuns in Washington in 1979, he ordered the sisters to dress in proper religious garb and to remember their true vocation as acquiescent helpers. |
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When a group of nuns came through Sligo looking for a place to build a convent novitiate and school for girls, great grandfather gave them several acres of his little farm. |
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The shopkeepers and aristocrats, peasants and military grandees, nuns and nudes all share an exaggerated pudginess that gives them a pleasant comic quality. |
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Jim's trawler Seaworthy pulled away from his dock and there were nuns on the bow, nuns at the stem, nuns on the flybridge and nuns down below in the cabin. |
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These nuns are far more enmeshed in the world, with all its messiness and ambiguities, than the male hierarchy is. |
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It was this letter which enabled the founding of Carmelite communities for nuns, and gave official recognition to lay people as members of the order. |
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The purpose of these scriptures is to regulate in all detail the life within the community of monks and nuns as well as their relationship with the laity. |
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The setting is revolutionary France and a cloister of Carmelite nuns. |
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Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform. |
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This article examines the contentious and frequently litigious relationship between convents and the families of professed nuns in early-modern Spain. |
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From jockeys to poets, singers to nuns, barbers to bewildered sportsmen, they all combine to bring you on a two hour side-splitting journey of pure entertainment. |
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He felt that bad painters would move the nuns in their simplicity to laughter and to lascivity, and he pleaded for the figures to be clothed very modestly. |
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He, on the other hand, was accused of mishandling allegations of mistreatment of children by an order of nuns when that scandal blew up three years ago. |
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Afterwards, mourners were invited for refreshments by the nuns. |
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The parents were cold and uncaring, the nuns were brutal and cruel. |
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In 2010, nuns who were visiting the monastery had taken pictures of the waterfall just past where Escobar's bunker had been. |
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I guess the nuns must have asked for a beautiful day for our commencement. |
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When it comes to nuns, though, the church is somehow able to act with alacrity. |
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There are dinner scenes where the nuns, dominated by Sister Aloysius, drink their milk and eat in silence. |
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In 2002, Michelle Elzay began photographing the Benedictine nuns of the Saint Marie Du Maumont convent, in the Charente in France. |
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The elderly nuns protected women and children in Burundi, then paid with their own lives for their mission. |
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Still, somewhere beneath your feet is a subterranean passage that obligingly ran from this all male seminary to the next door convent of Nazarene nuns. |
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Also, I suspect that nuns don't usually jiggle like that when they dance. |
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As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy. |
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The book shares the stories of 10 courageous nuns, all fighting fights at an advanced age that few others would dare. |
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Her father died when she was a small girl, thus compelling her desperate mother to give up her only child to the care of an order of nuns, the Ursulines. |
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The first orphan asylum in the United States was established in 1729 by Ursuline nuns to care for children orphaned in massacres by Native Americans at Natchez, Mississippi. |
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Scientists are using brain imaging to pinpoint the circuits that are active and connecting when Tibetan Buddhists meditate and Franciscan nuns pray. |
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In 1970, 750 people were seeking to become priests, brothers and nuns. |
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In that same year a Fever Hospital, Infirmary and Dispensary were incorporated into the workhouse buildings and the Saint John of God nuns began nursing in the hospital. |
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They will also meet the archbishop of Seattle, Peter Sartain, who has been given the task of reining in the American nuns. |
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There were rumors, too, that nuns might be permitted to doff their habits and move through the world like 'normal' people. |
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But there's a whole network of tailors, painters, nuns, guards, gardeners, canonical lawyers, and others who sustain the life of this fascinating, mysterious place. |
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Their children included three priests, two nuns and a naval captain. |
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This was after ten years in France when priests and nuns were killed and alters were being desecrated. |
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His largest work, De virginitate, dedicated to the nuns at Barking, is a twofold treatise in prose and verse, which became a stylistic model for subsequent Anglo-Latin works. |
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According to Hamburger, the devotional image develops in order to record and provoke the visionary experience cultivated by the nuns and, to a point, imitated by the laity. |
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Despite the physical and spiritual barriers of the cloister, nuns used their dowries and other property interests to exercise fiscal influence and autonomy. |
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She comes from a deeply religious background, which has four nuns and two priests in the family tree. |
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In fact, it is so short that, in its Chinese translation, it is memorized by Chinese monks and nuns and recited daily as part of morning devotions. |
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The kneeling nuns, roused from their devout abstraction, made their reverence and went away. |
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In one town, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like prisoners of war after burning their Franciscan school. |
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Elation turned to puzzlement as six infected nuns who received infusions all died. |
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Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line. |
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A factory document of 1743 reveals that a series of holy water stoups had been commissioned by the nuns in the Royal Convent of Unshod Carmelites in Madrid. |
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The job of these officials was to superintend the other monks and nuns. |
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Thus, unordained monks, friars, nuns, and religious brothers and sisters are not part of the clergy. |
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Religious sisters and nuns have been extensively involved in developing and running the Church's worldwide health and education service networks. |
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This put all the monks and nuns in England under one set of detailed customs for the first time. |
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In the early 18th century, the order of Ursuline nuns established a nunnery and school for girls. |
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In one room, there's a printed-out mood board of nuns behaving unprintably badly. |
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Herbal remedies, known as Herbals, along with prayer and other religious rituals were used in treatment by the monks and nuns of the monasteries. |
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Monks and nuns also devoted a large amount of their time in the cultivation of the herbs they felt were necessary in the care of the sick. |
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I haven't yet begun the second half, but it appears that the ending will be full of nuns, starting with 112 and 113, ununbium and ununtrium. |
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The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted. |
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He assured monks and nuns that they could break their vows without sin, because vows were an illegitimate and vain attempt to win salvation. |
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By the time of the Second Vatican Council, the bestowal of the consecration was limited to cloistered nuns only. |
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The king's death and cremation was to inspire the creation of an order of nuns. |
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These may reflect the different traditional views on Buddhist vegetarianism and the precepts for monks and nuns. |
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I carried the broth that poisoned the nuns, and he and I, snickle hand too fast, strangled a friar. |
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There should be well-regarded and informed pastoral priests and nuns included. |
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The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean. |
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Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession. |
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Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too. |
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Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry. |
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He converted wealthy women, some of whom became nuns in the face of family opposition. |
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Males pursuing a monastic life are generally called monks while female monastics are called nuns. |
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Many monks and nuns live in monasteries to stay away from the secular world. |
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Monks and nuns were encouraged to return to private life and a small percentage did eventually marry. |
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In the ancien regime, new opportunities for nuns as charitable practitioners were created by devout nobles on their own estates. |
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During the Revolution, most of the orders of nuns were shut down and there was no organised nursing care to replace them. |
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The only role open to women in the Church was that of nuns, as they were unable to become priests. |
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As of 2011 there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 75 countries throughout the world. |
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Three Dominican nuns were arrested for an act of civil disobedience at a missile silo near Greeley, Colo. |
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At least one source considered it likely that she received her early education with the Benedictine nuns at nearby Carrow. |
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Similarly, Mother is the correct form of address for nuns who have been tonsured, while Novices are addressed as Sister. |
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This is also true of widowed wives of clergy, who do not remarry and become nuns when their children are grown. |
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According to this story, which charters the injunction against nuns making a living through the practice of medicine, a bhiksuni should not also be a vaidyika. |
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In fact, the legends of the life of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara, frequently stress that nuns far outnumbered monks among his followers. |
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Nguyen was found in a bombed out village called Cholon by some nuns. |
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Helped by publicity over the more sensational scenes, featuring sexuality among nuns, the film topped British box office receipts for eight weeks. |
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The deceased nun's funeral was held at Kizhathadiyoor near Pala on Saturday morning, attending by a large number of mourners, clergy and nuns from different convents. |
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There is always a pastor between the collection plate and the nuns. |
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Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. |
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The sisterhood was founded by the Bishop of Truro, George Howard Wilkinson, in 1883 and closed in 2001 when the two surviving nuns moved into care homes. |
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In 1932, a South African hurling team sailed to Ireland to compete in the Tailteann Games, where they carried a banner donated by a convent of Irish nuns in Cape Town. |
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He chose Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire because of its remote location and because the Gilbertines were an order in which nuns were hidden from view behind high walls. |
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Jain monks and nuns are required to observe these five vows strictly. |
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An alternative female renunciant order of ten-precept nuns was founded in 1905 at a time when there was still insufficient support for a bhikkhuni revival in Sri Lanka. |
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The monks and nuns reorganized older texts so that they could be utilized more efficiently, adding a table of contents for example to help find information quickly. |
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The Las Capucinas Church and Convent is in Salvatierra and is one of only three complexes built for nuns in the entire state during the colonial period. |
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It's been said for many years that nuns tend to menstruate together. |
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Vinaya is the specific code of conduct for a sangha of monks or nuns. |
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In his last decade in Rome he lived in a home run by the Blue Nuns, an Irish order so called because of the color of their habit. |
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Nuns celebrated their solemn vows with a marriage ceremony and a ring signifying their wedding to Christ. |
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Nuns also provided cheap personnel for preschools, infirmaries, sanitariums, asylums, soup kitchens, and orphanages, especially in the North. |
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Yet that question, and its sad answer, hangs over If Nuns Ruled the World, by jo Piazza. |
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Nuns of some religious orders wear a hair cloth or cilice next their skin. |
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Nuns in a few places gained permission to live out their lives in nunneries, though without governmental financial support. |
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The grave with the inscription is within sight of the ruins of the Kirklees Priory, behind the Three Nuns pub in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. |
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Subtile Silks of Ferreous Firmness, Buddhist Nuns in Ancient and Early Medieval Sri Lanka and their Role in the Propagation of Buddhism. |
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