| These double monasteries were presided over by abbesses, some of the most powerful and influential women in Europe. |
| Also, at Beaconsfield, the abbesses took part in the council. |
| There are many women who, as abbesses or as ordinary nuns, did much for learning and welfare. |
| Not only bishops, priests, deacons and subdeacons but also of porters, lectors, exorcists, acolytes, canons, abbots, abbesses. |
| Paris metro station entrance at Abbesses designed by Hector Guimard for the 1900 Exposition universelle. |
| That is why we have abbesses in our tradition, as well as female doctors of the Church. |
