Most of the opera is about the conflict and competition between her and the new prioress.
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In 1332, for example, the local bishop nominates a certain Dame Emily to be the new prioress.
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But Ms. Mattila's steely prioress can't help succumbing to Blanche's touching combination of fragility and determination, as suggested by Ms. Leonard.
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The prioress warns Blanche that the convent is not a refuge from fear, or life, or anything, but a house of devotion.
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"We thought that he was a tremendous individual," said Mother Anne Brackmann, the prioress of the Carmelite Monastery in Terre Haute, Ind.
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But first Blanche must endure an interview with Madame de Croissy, the convent's older and ailing prioress, here the great soprano Karita Mattila.
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Writhing almost athletically in her deathbed, as she poured her dramatic soprano into the last words of Madame de Croissy, the convent's dying prioress.
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" He revealed one: Ms. Mattila will sing Madame de Croissy, the prioress of an order of nuns during the French Revolution, in Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites.
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At first, they accidentally carried off the prioress Justina instead (also Gregory's niece, which might explain his later hostility towards the women), but they succeeded in nabbing Leubovera on their second try.
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Its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, leads John Dexter's 1977 production of Poulenc's masterwork with a cast that includes Isabel Leonard as Blanche, Karita Mattila as the Prioress and Adrianne Pieczonka as Madame Lidoine.
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The soprano Erin Morley also reprises the role of the young nun Constance, while the international soloist Karita Mattila — known to the Met's audiences as Tosca, Manon Lescaut and other title characters — is the prioress, Madame de Croissy.
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His drawings were passed down through the other artists at the monastery and ended up in the hands of Suor Plautilla Nelli, the first known female artist in Florence and the prioress of the convent of Santa Caterina da Siena.
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Yet he gives each of them a distinct character; under Mr. Nézet-Séguin (and the revival stage director, David Kneuss), these impressive singers found their individual dramatic voices, especially the beguiling, pure-toned soprano Erin Morley as the chatterbox Constance; the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as the benevolent Mother Marie, who longs for martyrdom with her "daughters" but is denied it; and the soprano Adrianne Pieczonka as Madame Lidoine, the new prioress, who arrives with a slightly sanctimonious air, only to find inner strength and heroism.
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Euphemia Leslie (1508-1570) was a Scottish prioress. She was the prioress of Elcho Abbey at Perth in 1526-1570.
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She was elected as prioress in 1258 – against her will – but despite her position she liked to do the most menial of domestic duties in service to her fellow sisters. Bicchieri was reconfirmed as prioress in 1273. The prioress became noted for her frequent reception of the Eucharist and for often giving into ecstasies. During her tenure as prioress the rule in force at the time prohibited members from drinking in between meals without the express permission of the prioress, which was something that was conceded on ultra-rare occasions.
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The Prioress Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the six-week meet at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Inaugurated in 1948 at Jamaica Racetrack, it was raced there through 1959 after which it was hosted by Aqueduct Racetrack through 1986. The Prioress was named for the filly Prioress, out of the great mare Reel, herself by Glencoe. In 1858, Prioress became the first American Thoroughbred ever to win in England.
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Prioress' Tale by Edward Burne-Jones. Ruth Gleaning c. 1859 by Randolph Rogers.
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At that point in time, the community consisted of the prioress and three nuns.
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Prudenza Cambi was elected prioress in both 1587 and 1593. She died in 1601.
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In 1264, St. Agnes' Priory was founded north of the city outside the walls. Princess Agnes of Denmark (1249–ca 1288) served as its first prioress from 1264-1266. Her sister Jutta of Denmark (ca. 1246 - 1284) was prioress in 1266-1270.
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The Cabo Noval Gardens (formerly the Orchard of the Prioress), in the East Plaza. The smaller building in the middle of the photograph is the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation. The Gardens of the Prioress were destroyed in the early nineteenth century. The Gardens (or Orchard) of the Prioress were the result of a redesign of the grounds to the north and west of the Royal Alcázar, at the start of the seventeenth century.
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In 2014 they were four. Convent: Tithe Barn (Zehntscheune), 2012 The president of the Knighthood appoints a prioress for a five-year term, which may be extended several times until the prioress reaches the age of 75. Currently Veronika von der Decken functions as the prioress. In order to broaden its cultural and spiritual activities the convent started in 2012 a coöperation with the Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Bad Bederkesa (Protestant Centre for Education at Bad Bederkesa).
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In 1686, Nolan returned with Maria Lynch; they been appointed prioress and sub-prioress, in an effort to reestablish the community in Galway. Within two years, thanks to the regime of James II of England, the nuns had both prospered and gained new recruits.
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On 16 October 1346, while campaigning in France at an important stage of the Hundred Years' War, Edward III licensed the prioress and convent of Brewood to appropriate the church of Rode in Somerset, where they already held the advowson.Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1345–1348, p. 475. There is no indication of which prioress and convent. However, this was at the request of Thomas Swynnerton and Alice Swynnerton is known to have been prioress of Black Ladies until 1332.
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He bequeathed most of his estate to his cousin Friedrich XII. Anna, Friedrich's widow, became prioress of Reuthin.
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She was the prioress in Barcelona when she died in 1594. Her body is said to be incorrupt.
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Julia Nolan (1611–1701) was a prioress of the Dominican nuns in Galway, Ireland from 1686 to 1701.
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House of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Langley, footnote 11. the prioress of Farewell was allowed to take part in the election of the prioress of Langley when a vacancy occurred. However, the election would go ahead even if she failed to attend or to send representatives. Other claims were withdrawn.
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Louise was elected prioress of the convent on 25 November 1773. She served as prioress from 1773 to 1779 in two consecutive terms, and a third term from 1785.Leathes, Stanley, The religion of the Christ, its historic and literary development, Oxford University, 1874, p. 356 Louis XV died on 10 May 1774.
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Bishop Goldwell found a community of only six nuns, including the prioress and Margaret Causton, the sub-prioress, and that they were not attending mass in the conventual church but in Flixton parish church because their priest had broken his arm and was unable to celebrate. No reforms were needed.Jessopp, Visitations, p. 48.
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Anne Worsley (1588 – 1644) was an English nun. She was the founding prioress of the English Carmelite convent in Antwerp.
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The priory normally supported five canonesses and a prioress,Angold et al. Priory of St Leonard, Brewood, note anchor 21.
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Jane Burrell, the last prioress, received a pension of £5 10s. on her surrender, and enjoyed the same until 1553.
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Arthington Hall, built on the priory land, possibly re-using the old front door The archives show that all was not well at the priory for a good portion of its history; discipline had to be enforced on various nuns and, at one point, on the prioress. Following a visit on 9 June 1307, William Greenfield, the Archbishop of York, wrote to the prioress concerning four nuns. Dames Dionisia de Heuensdale and Ellen de Castleford were forbidden to leave the precincts of the cloister. Two others, Agnes de Screvyn, who had resigned as prioress four years earlier, and Isabella Couvel, had claimed certain animals and goods belonging to the priory were their private property and the prioress ordered them to resign within three days as punishment.
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Wolsey, however, declined in the King's favour and died in 1530, and Flixton was not yet suppressed. In 1532 Master Miles Spencer, Commissary of Norwich, found the priory all in order with no complaints. Elizabeth Wright, prioress, Margaret Olton, sub-prioress, Alicia Laxfield, sacristan, Agnes Asshe, precentor and Margaret Rouse, infirmarer, were all present, with two new admissions: Margaret Punder was also still there, and knew of nothing needing reform, but as ex-prioress had drawn herself apart from the obedientiary offices ("non est de gremio").Jessopp, Visitations, pp.
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A few prioresses are mentioned in conjunction with court cases or gifts beginning in 1388 when Prioress Christine was given a cloak. Prioress Christine Palsdatter was in charge in 1457 through 1459 when the priory had legal troubles with a local knight, Niels Eriksen. The last Prioress "old" Else, was the niece of a powerful noble and was allowed to run the priory until it was closed, sometime in 1547. The priory priests were usually elderly priests or canons from other monastic houses in the purview of the Bishop of Ribe.
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We know some details of the priory from an agreement made between Alice Hampton and the prioress Elizabeth Prudde in 1492. Alice was the only known unmarried vowess; she was rich and had influence in London. She had inherited her uncle's riches but also his influence. She paid the prioress eight pounds of pepper a year.
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Joanna (prioress of Lothen), a twelfth century nun, was the prioress of the monastery of Lothen in Germany. Joanna is remembered for her tapestry work. Around the year 1200, Joanna, along with two of her nuns named Alheidis and Reglindis, wove a series of tapestries. The tapestries were well regarded, and have been described as brilliant.
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Patricia Twohill, the prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Peace described the joke as "salacious" and said the sisters are "deeply offended".
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Jessopp, Visitations, pp. 133-34 (Internet Archive). Prioress Elizabeth Blenerhassett had succeeded by 1518.'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey' (V.
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Soon after that, the Bishop of Bayeux authorized the prioress to receive Thérèse. On 9 April 1888 she became a Carmelite postulant.
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"Criticism, Anti- Semitism, and the Prioress' Tale." Chaucer: New Casebooks. Ed. Valerie Allen and Ares Axiotis. St. Martin's Press: New York, 1996, 203.
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Mother Patrick Mary Anne Cosgrave (22 May 1863 – 31 July 1900) was an Irish Dominican nun, pioneer nurse in Rhodesia, educationist, and prioress.
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Mother St. Ursula publicly describes Agnes's death at the hand of the sisters. When the procession crowd hears that the Prioress is a murderer, they turn into a rioting mob. They kill the Prioress, begin attacking other nuns, and set the convent on fire. In the confusion, Lorenzo finds a group of nuns and a young woman named Virginia hiding in the crypt.
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She was professed as a full member of the order on 8 September 1578. She also was said to have borne the stigmata. She served as prioress of the institution from 1591 to 1595 and in 1598. She was accused of an offence in 1600 - an unjust accusation - and was removed as the prioress and was isolated for two decades.
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Edgewood Junior College opened September 4, 1927, with the enrollment of 12 women.Paynter 33-34 Sister Grace James was the first prioress and principal; each prioress was also the “president” of the college. Mathematics, English, art history, music, philosophy, speech, religion, biology, French, Latin, Greek, and German were offered. Tuition was less than $600 a year (Paynter 31,32) (Gilligan 39).
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John III promoted a stronger adherence to the Benedictine rule and stricter claustration. During his visit John III removed the previous prioress and, the convent elected Margarethe Eytzen their new prioress, whom he consecrated.Heinz-Joachim Schulze, „Neuenwalde“ (article), in: Germania Benedictina: 12 vols. so far, Bayerische Benediktiner-Akademie München / Abt- Herwegen-Institut Maria Laach (ed.), St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 1970seqq.
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391, citing Stowe Charter no. 353. Cecilia Creke was herself elected prioress in 1446.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing Norwich Episcopal Registers XI.3.
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It was dissolved in 1537. At that time there were only one nun and the prioress, both very aged. They had two women servants.
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The church of St. Mary, Hartley Wintney, was included in the original endowment and the prioress and nuns presented the vicars till the Dissolution.
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Maria served many roles while in the convent. These roles included the function of porter, mistress of novices, and twice as office of prioress.
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Gracciano is about 58 km from Siena and 6 km from Montepulciano. Dominican prioress and saint Agnes of Montepulciano was born in Gracciano in 1268.
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In "Chaucer's Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise", Sherman Hawkins juxtaposes the Pardoner and the Prioress as the representatives of two radically different forms of religious expression. The Pardoner's materialistic orientation, his suspicious relics and accusations of sinfulness (evident in his conflict with the Host) align him with Paul's account of the "outward Jew, circumcised only in the flesh," rather than the "inward" Jew of Romans 2.29 who is spiritually rather than literally circumcised: "the Pardoner, outwardly 'a noble ecclesiaste,' actually reduces Christianity to a code as rigorous and external as the Old Law itself."Sherman Hawkins, "Chaucer's Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise." JEGP 63 (1964), 623 n.
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At the Visitation of 1526, when the sisterhood had shrunk to six, Margaret Punder spoke favourably, the nuns, led by Alicia Laxfield and backed up by the prioress Elizabeth Wright, did likewise, and Margaret Olton, now sub-prioress, mentioned only that the roofs of the refectory and cloister were leaking, which the prioress was instructed to amend.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing Jessopp, Visitations, p. 261. A greater threat loomed, for Flixton Priory was among the East Anglian monasteries named for suppression by Thomas Wolsey in 1527–28, authorized by the second Papal bull of Clement VII to resource Wolsey's College at Oxford and for his School at Ipswich.Page, 'Priory of Flixton'.
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At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII in 1540 there were nine nuns at the priory, including the prioress, Elizabeth Hall, who was then 45 years of age. In the priory records, Domus monialium Arthyngton clunienc ordinis S[anct]i Benedicti, (The House of Nuns in Arthyington of the Cluniac Order of St. Benedict), against the names of the nuns, except the prioress, is written "continue", meaning that she wished to continue in vows. The records state that "All these persons (including the prioress) be of good religious liffying and not slanderid." The ages of the nuns ranged between 72 and 25 years.
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The Prioress Stakes was run in two divisions in 1951 and again in 1958. This race was downgraded to a Grade II for its 2014 running.
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Sister EmmanuelNée in 1949 Rose Armelle Marie Claude Lorenchet de Montjamont was named general prioress of the monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno by the Congregation of Religious, succeeding Sister Isabelle. The Congregation of Religious accepted the resignation of Sister Isabelle, former general prioress, “thanking her for the years of service when she succeeded the founder, Sister Marie, and for her courageous and timely decision to hand over her responsibility in this new stage for her monastic Family.” The Dicastery named a new general prioress, Sister Emmanuel, helped by 5 sisters who are her advisers, and two visitors as apostolic assistants: Father Jean Quris, a priest in the diocese of Angers and an episcopal delegate for consecrated life, and Mother Geneviève Barrière, former Abbess of Jouarre (see above : "controversies"). The role of the assistants chosen by Rome consists in remaining close to the general prioress and to the permanent advisers in order to cooperate in the implementation of the recommendations given by the Dicastery and of the renewal of the Constitutions, in view of a future general chapter to vote on the constitutions and to elect a general prioress.
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Nevertheless, she accepted her unanimous re-election for a third term as Prioress General at the congregation's General Chapter of 1939. She died on 24 February 1940.
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Eventually the other Sisters became aware of the spiritual basis for her behavior. By the age of 30 she had risen to the post of prioress. She is reported to have been a nun with visions, states Constance Classen, who miraculously held baby Jesus dressed in swaddling clothes, and was mystically married and united with adult Jesus. As the prioress, De' Ricci developed into an effective and greatly admired administrator.
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The others kept quiet apart from Isabella Asshe, who mentioned the meagre fare and said the prioress was meeting with a servant Richard Carr at suspicious times. The prioress was told she must keep only one of her dogs, to have a female chaplain with her when sleeping alone, and to present the accounts, on pain of dismissal: Richard Carr was to be sent away.Jessopp, Visitations, pp. 185-91 (Internet Archive).
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178 § 5; Macbain; Kennedy (1894) pp. 156–157. whilst the Sleat History states that she was a prioress on Iona.McDonald, RA (1997) p. 222; McDonald, A (1995) p.
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On 13 March 1311, the sub-prioress and community were ordered to render due obedience to the prioress, Isabella de Berghby. On 30 August, an anonymous letter was sent by a member of the community to Master Walter de Bebiry, Dean of Ainsty, asking him to come to Arthington to inquire as to why Prioress Isabella de Berghby and Dame Margaret de Tang had left the establishment. He was charged with finding with whom they had left and where they were living. He learned that de Berghby had resented having another nun associated with the management of the priory, and, in a fit of pique, had cast off her religious habit and left.
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Butler's lives of the saints (8 ed.). Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Burns & Oates. p. 34. . OCLC 33824974. She was the monastery's first prioress, and was reported to be "very strict".
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She was a sub-prioress of Stanbrook Abbey from 1956 until 1968. She suffered a severe stroke in November 1989 and died on 1 February 1990 at Stanbrook Abbey.
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While living in Marienfließ, Sidonia engaged in several private and judicial conflicts with her (mostly younger) co-residents and with the administrative staff of the abbey.Riedl (2004), p. 142. When in 1606 she was dismissed from her post as an Unterpriorin (sub-prioress) by the convent's prioress, Magdalena von Petersdorff, she appealed her dismissal to Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania. Bogislaw sent a Commission, headed by Joachim von Wedel, to investigate the dispute.
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The East End features in one of the earliest works in English, Geoffrey Chaucer's (1343–1400) The Prioress' Prologue and Tale (ca. 1390), which makes fun of the Prioress' Cockney accent: "After the scole of stratford atte bowe, For frenssh of parys was to hire unknowe".Line 125. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales accessed on 14 November 2006 Chaucer, himself lived for many years on the edge of the East End, in the gatehouse of Aldgate.
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Among her earliest undergraduate students was Katherine Murphy (later Hogan), who took first place in Ireland in the BA examinations for 1890. Mary would be elected sub-prioress of Sion Hill in 1889 and 1892. In September 1893 she joined the new community at St Mary's, Merrion Square, Dublin, where she continued her teachings in the English department. She would go on to be appointed sub-prioress of St Mary's community, August 1896.
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In June 1537 Goldsmith demised the priory and its estates to a Richard Oglethorp for 21 years, retaining only the priory church and buildings for the nuns to use. Two years later Parliament passed the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539. In December of that year the Wallingwells Priory surrendered to the Crown, which pensioned off the prioress, her sub-prioress and seven other nuns. No visible remains of the priory survive.
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An altar in the priory church was dedicated to Edmund and became a place of pilgrimage. Margaret Rich was elected prioress in 1245 and served until her death in 1257.
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The "Prioress' Tale" may approximate the greedy exploitation of spirituality embodied by The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale insofar as it is indebted to tales of martyrdom circulated for worldly profit.
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The president is the legal representative of the convent, unless he entrusts competences to the prioress.§ 1 (3) Klosterordnung, cf. „Klosterordnung“, on: Kloster Neuenwalde: Aktuelles, retrieved on 19 December 2014.
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By the early years of the 16th century, the congregation had been reduced to a prioress and five nuns; three of these, Elizabeth, Joan and Juliana, were sisters surnamed Wynter.
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A prioress is a monastic superior for nuns, usually lower in rank than an abbess. Abbesses and prioresses may also be known as "mother superior". They remain influential within the church.
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From 1988 to 2011, Mother Theresa Brenninkmeyer was the prioress, later abbess, of a convent in Denmark. Two family members have entered show business, producer Stephan Brenninkmeijer and actor Philippe Brenninkmeyer.
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Elsbeth Stagel depicted in a copy of Lives of the Nuns of Töss. Elisabeth or Elsbeth Stagel (c. 1300 – c. 1360) was a Dominican nun and prioress of the Töss Convent.
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St Mary of Keldholme Priory, founded during the reign of King Henry I, was a small Cistercian nunnery situated a couple of miles east of Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire. Few of the prioresses names have been recorded, and the Victoria County History (VCH) comments that "there is remarkably little known of the history of the house" until the 14th century, when a disputed election for a prioress led to some years of turmoil. Religious houses in Yorkshire were prone to internal disorder in the early 14th century. This was the second disputed election for a Yorkshire prioress in 15 years; in 1290, John le Romeyn, Greenfield's predecessor, had appointed Josiana de Anlaby Prioress of Swine Priory and a similar crisis of leadership had occurred.
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She was the illegitimate offspring of the Catholic priest Walter Leslie and was given papal dispensation to become the prioress of Elcho in 1526, despite her birth, age and the fact that Elcho already had a prioress called Elizabeth Swinton. In 1527 Leslie conquered Elcho with an army supported by her brother and hundreds of supporters. In 1560, the Scottish reformation was introduced. In her will, she arranged for the retirement funds for her remaining nuns.
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A year later, at the third election after the beginning of the Foundation, she was unanimously elected as the Prioress. After the declaration of the result by the local Bishop, it is reported that Mostyn "humbly besought his lordship not to confirm the election, alleging many reasons, and want of abilities".Bedingfeld 1878, p.180 As Prioress, Mostyn gained a reputation for humility, never shirking any observance, and performing the lowliest of the jobs in the community.
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Bishop Goldwell, in his visitation of 1492, found all well with Prioress Katherine, subprioress Katherine Babyngton, and the eighteen other nuns. Their names, Mortimer, Jernyngham, Hervy, Blanerhasett, Jenney and Everard at once reveal the old gentry origins of the sisterhood.A. Jessopp (ed.), Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich, A.D. 1492–1532, Camden Society New Series XLIII (1888), pp. 35-36 and xlvii-viii (Internet Archive). A prioress Anna is recorded in 1502, but little is known of her.
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First the Abbot of St Benet's at Hulme (Norfolk) and other papal commissioners judged in Butley's favour. The prioress appealed to Rome against the decision, which caused the commissioners to declare the Prioress and Priory of Campsey excommunicate. The Pope referred her appeal to the Prior of Anglesea Priory (Cambridgeshire) and others, who would not carry out the excommunication. Butley Priory obtained papal letters to the Prior of Great Yarmouth (Norfolk) and others to have it enforced.
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Prioress von der Hude was succeeded by the likewise Catholic Anna Brummers. Hamburg's Bailiff Balthasar von Meinssen forbade the convent's feudal tenants in the heath villages within Hamburg's Ritzebüttel Bailiwick to obey to their feudal lord, the new prioress, and to deliver her the feudal .E.R., „Review of 'Heinrich Rüther, «Das Kloster Neuenwalde als Grundherrschaft», in: Jahresbericht der Männer vom Morgenstern, vol. 11 (1908/1909), pp. 85–109“, in: Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, vol.
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Nuns were to be silent in places of prayer, the cloister, the dormitory, and refectory. Silence was maintained unless the prioress granted an exception for a specific cause. Speaking was allowed in the common parlor, but it was subordinate to strict rules, and the prioress, subprioress or other senior nun had to be present. As well as sewing, embroidery and other genteel pursuits, the nuns participated in a number of intellectual activities, including reading and discussing pious literature.
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Dugdale, Monasticon Vol. 6 Part 1, p. 587 no. VII (Google). In 1258 Prioress Basilia (de WachishamNichols, Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica V, Part 52, p. 25.) received a grant of property in Burgate.
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194, citing Jermyn MSS. Copinger, County of Suffolk, II, pp. 390-91, citing Stowe Charter 336. Bateman died early in 1355, and by 1357 Joan de Hemynhall had succeeded Isabel Weltham as prioress.
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Bethóc, a daughter of Somairle, appears to have been the first prioress of Iona Nunnery.Beuermann (2012) p. 2; Perkins (2006); Power (2005) pp. 30–31; Barrow (2004) p. 114; McDonald, RA (1997) pp.
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The Carmel was adjacent to the bishop's residence, and he would celebrate Mass for the nuns as often as possible. The Archbishop of Baltimore, James Cardinal Gibbons, appointed Mother Clare as the prioress of the new Carmel and Mother Aloysius sub- prioress before they had left Baltimore. The cottage was a bit small and an addition was built on property donated by Bishop Davis. The addition included a chapel in the Late Gothic Revival style, nun's choir, sacristy, and six bedrooms.
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Meantime, Mother Prioress Mary Cecilia of Jesus decided to consult Alfredo Obviar, auxiliary bishop of Lipa and spiritual director of Carmel. The bishop instructed her to tell Castillo to ask from the Blessed Virgin some proof that the apparition was from heaven. Days, after the first shower of petals, total blindness afflicted the postulant. The prioress heard a voice telling her that the only way Castillo's blindness would be healed was for her to kiss the eyes of the postulant.
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In his tale, "the Pardoner presents death as the wages of sin, an effect of justice" while the "Prioress, through the paradox of martyrdom, shows it as mercy, an effect of grace."Hawkins 624. In "Criticism, Anti-Semitism and the Prioress' Tale", L. O. Fradenburg argues for a radical rereading of the binary oppositions between Christian and Jew, Old Law and New Law, literal and spiritual in the tale in part to critique the "patristic exegesis" of Sherman Hawkins' earlier interpretation.Louise O. Fradenburg.
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She invited Baouardy to go with her, writing to the prioress of that community and recommending that they accept the young Arab woman. The prioress accepted Mother Veronica's advice and, in June 1867, both women went together to Pau, where they received the Carmelite religious habit and Baourdy was given the religious name of Mary of Jesus Crucified. In 1870, Baouardy went with the first group of Carmelite Apostolic Sisters to Mangalore, India. She served there for two years before returning to Pau.
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She was chased by dogs which bit her. Christina the Astonishing appearing in the 1630 Fasti Mariani calendar of saints - feast day July 24th back of card After being incarcerated a second time, she moderated her approach somewhat, upon her release. Christina died at the Dominican Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sint-Truiden, of natural causes, aged 74. The prioress there later testified that, despite her behaviour, Christina would humbly and fully obey any command given her by the prioress.
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These are of every rank of society, and represent the old Ordo de Poenitentia and the old Militia. In certain countries they are grouped into chapters, having a lay prior and sub-prior or prioress and sub-prioress, and hold monthly meetings. Since the Rule of Muñon de Zamora (1285), they have always been subject to a Dominican priest appointed by the Dominican provincial. For the actual reception of the habit, the master-general can give faculties to any priest.
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In 1416 a dispute arose over ownership between the Prioress of Carrow and the Prior of Holy Trinity. The involved parties were Robert de Burnham, Prior of Holy Trinity (1407–1427) of County Norwich, and Editha (Edith de Wilton) Prioress of Carrowe. The Prior pleaded that Editha was wrongly described as Prioress of Carrowe as Richard I granted the City of Norwich to the citizens, and the city was in the County of Norfolk till Henry IV separated it and made it a County of itself, which granted the citizens jurisdiction over Carrowe as "within a parcel of the City of Norwich." The Prior further stated that Carrowe was in the parish of Bracondale which is in the County of Norfolk and was never in the City of Norwich.
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Barbara Jernyngham was no longer sub-prioress, and said that all was well, as did Petronilla Felton, infirmarer and cellarer. But a chorus of voices complained that the prioress, while generous with her visitors, was very stingy towards the nuns, especially with their food. One had been kept waiting two hours for her dinner: several complained that the meat was unhealthy, and Katerina Grome said that if the bullock they had been fed had not been killed for the table it would have died anyway. For her part, the prioress remarked that the nuns spoke privately with the laity, to which Elizabeth Wingfield, chamberlain, responded that they were all forbidden to speak even to a graduate of the university, unless all were assembled together, and that her office was owed £5.
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In The Canterbury Tales, the Prioress tells a story of a devout Christian child who was murdered by Jews affronted at his singing a hymn as he passed through the Jewry, or Jewish quarter, of a city in Asia. Much later criticism focuses on the tale's antisemitism. Allen Koretsky asserts that, because the antisemitism in this tale runs counter to the generally positive image of Chaucer, it has been "ignored, excused, explained or palliated in a number of ways." Thus, a considerable body of critical and scholarly opinion holds that this speech, in the mouth of the Prioress, represents an ironic inversion of Chaucer's own sentiments; that is, the Prioress is seen as a hypocrite whose cruelty and bigotry belies her conventionally pious pose—a situation typical of the indeterminacy of Chaucer's intentions.
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Cosgrave toured England in June 1898 to recruit postulants. During this trip she was invested with the Royal Red Cross. When she returned to Southern Rhodesia, she was elected prioress of the Dominican order.
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Francisca del Espíritu Santo de Fuentes (1647 – August 24, 1711) is a Spanish Roman Catholic religious figure. She was the first Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena in the Philippines.
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The poem tells how Princess Yolanda gave up the comforts of her home in Vianden Castle to join the Convent of Marienthal where she later became the prioress. See further details under Yolanda of Vianden.
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Saint Emma Monastery (founded 1931) is a Roman Catholic retreat house and monastery for the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Westmoreland County, located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The current Prioress is Mother Mary Anne Noll OSB.
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Katherine Herward, elected prioress in 1392,Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing Norwich Episcopal Registers VI.170. was by 1402 succeeded by Dame Elizabeth Moor.Copinger, County of Suffolk, II, p. 391, citing Stowe Charter no. 350.
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Juliana Berners, O.S.B., (or Barnes or Bernes) (born 1388), English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.
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Agnes of Denmark (1249 – after 1290) was the youngest daughter of Eric IV of Denmark and his wife Jutta of Saxony. She was the official founder of the St. Agnes' Priory, Roskilde, becoming prioress there.
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Mother More would not just leave them behind. She gave them the option to leave for Antwerp or to stay. Those who stayed were put under the charge of Sr. Olivia Darrell, the former Prioress.
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Robin Hood's Grave is a name given to a monument in Kirklees Park Estate, West Yorkshire, England, . Robin Hood was traditionally supposed to have been bled to death by the prioress of Kirklees (or Kirkley or kirklea or kirkleys) Priory . The identity of the prioress is the subject of much debate as indeed is the date of Robin Hood's death. (The Prioresses of Kirklees are listed here.) The earliest reference to the gravestone is in Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britannia (1610).
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Agnes, Countess of Aix-en-Berry (fl. 1080–1120) was a medieval healer and the first prioress of the Orsan Priory. Agnes was the first wife of Alard de Guillebaud, lord of Châteaumeillant; when the marriage was dissolved by reason of consanguinity, Agnes retired to Fontevraud Abbey. In 1107, Alard donated lands for the foundation of a Fontevrist monastery near Orsan (modern Maisonnais) to Robert of Arbrissel at the urging of Leger, Archbishop of Bourges; Agnes became the first prioress of the resulting monastery.
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Wallingwells Priory was a small house of Benedictine nuns founded in the 1140s by Ralph de Chevrolcourt at Wallingwells on land he had donated near Carlton in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire. The priory was surrendered to the Crown as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries on 14 December 1539, after which a pension of £6 was assigned to Margaret Goldsmith the last prioress, and of 53s. 4d. each to Anne Roden the sub-prioress and Elizabeth Kirkby and of 40s. each to the six other nuns.
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She served as subprioress, an official position below that of prioress, of the convent of San Mattia at the time that she signed the dedicatory of her first known work: Brief Discourse on What Occurred to the Most Reverend Sisters of the Joined Convents of San Mattia and San Luca from the year 1573. She would serve as prioress at San Mattia in 1592, 1606, 1611, and 1613 as well.Callegari, Danielle; McHugh, Shannon (2015). “Introduction”. Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna.
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Archbishop James Cantwell contacted Mother Dolorosa at the Sacred Heart Convent in Los Angeles. Mother Dolorosa requested the support of the Motherhouse at Mission San José and permission to pursue what she felt was “a perfect site for a boarding school.” The asking price for the entire resort was $150,000, but the Prioress General’s answer was initially negative. Undeterred by this response, Mother Dolorosa and Sister Thomasina went back to “The Hilltops” and waited to show the Prioress General, Mother Seraphina Mertz, the former hotel.
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11 Jun. 2013 She kept up a correspondence for many years with Francis de Sales, a friend of her mother. In 1615 she was made sub-prioress, and in 1618, prioress of the monastery at Tours, founded by M. de Fontaines- Marans, a relative of Madame Acarie, and the father of Sister Madeleine de Saint-Joseph, (later declared Venerable).Anne of Bartholomew, "Life of Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew" Sister Margaret was then sent in 1621 to restore harmony in the monastery at Bordeaux.
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Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Brewood (Black Ladies), footnote 43. in A History of the County of Stafford, volume 3. and died in 1485. Margaret Cawardyn, appointed 1485, was formerly sub-prioress of Brewood.
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The last prioress was Christine Burgh, who moved to Catterick where she died in 1566. The church of the priory was rebuilt in 1810 using materials of the original structure, but has fallen into ruins since.
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Dugald is last recorded in 1175, whilst in the company of his sons in England.Sellar 2000, p. 195; Duncan & Brown 1956-1957, pp. 197-198. Bethoc, Somerled's daughter, was prioress of Iona Nunnery.Sellar 2000, p. 203.
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Sister Helen McGing served as principal of the college. Dr. Margaret Mac Curtain who served as prioress of Sion Hill Convent, served on the Board of the College. Ms Madeleine Mulrennan also served as Principal/President.
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Members of the first Leadership Team of the Dominican Sisters of Peace: Sisters Margaret Ormond, OP, Prioress; Joan Scanlon, OP, First Councilor; Gene Poore, OP, Second Councilor; Therese Leckert, OP, Third Councilor; Gemma Doll, OP, Fourth Councilor.
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Prior, derived from the Latin for "earlier, first", (or prioress for nuns) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior, usually lower in rank than an abbot or abbess. Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior.
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In 1319 he went to support the Ghibelline siege of Genoa, and most likely died on this campaign. The Our Lady Chapel at Oetenbach, where Wernher's sister Cecilia was prioress, was donated in Wernher's name in 1320.
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In the fragmentary Percy Folio version Robin Hood goes to get himself bled (a common medieval medical practice) by his cousin, a prioress. He refuses a bodyguard that Will Scarlet offers and takes only Little John with him. The prioress treacherously lets out too much blood, killing him, or her lover Sir Roger of Doncaster stabs him while he's weak, in revenge for Robin's family having inherited his land and title. Robin Hood claims some consolation, though, in that he mortally wounds Roger prior to his own demise.
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The prioress pleaded that, since she had appealed before the order of excommunication, she and every excommunicated person had the right to defend themselves, and that the Prior of Anglesey's commission had acted rightly in refusing to implement it. The Prior of Yarmouth's commission would not accept this plea, and the Prioress again appealed to Rome.'Regesta 14: 1227–1230', in W.H. Bliss (ed.), Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland Vol. 1: 1198–1304, (HMSO, London 1893), pp. 117-22 (British History Online, accessed 10 June 2018).
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Knowles and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses, p. 271 A papal bull of Pope Clement VII, dated 18 February 1384, said that the monastery (described as not using the Cistercian habit) had been the victim of war and had its church burned down. Monasteries of Cistercian women usually had thirteen nuns: the prioress and twelve sisters, but North Berwick had 21 sisters and a prioress in 1544, and still had a similar number on the eve of the Scottish Reformation. The hospitals of Ardross and North Berwick had been dependent on the priory.
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Although the punishment was subsequently reduced, Greenfield wrote to the Prioress, Agnes de Methelay, laying out certain conditions for Joan de Saxton's future conduct. Among other restrictions, she could not leave the cloister except when accompanied by other nuns. She was forbidden from receiving visitors, and from having anything to do with one Lady de Walleys: if de Walleys visited Clementhorpe, de Saxton "was to be sent away before Pentecost". For her part, the prioress was forbidden to employ girls over the age of 12 in the priory except when absolutely unavoidable.
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White Ladies Priory was an Augustinian house It was situated in an extra- parochial area adjoining Brewood parish to the west, and allocated to Shropshire, but it was generally styled the priory or convent of St Leonard of Brewood. The complement here was also small: generally five canonesses and the prioress. It too was poor and had scattered holdings in Shropshire, and even in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Nevertheless, a visitation of 1338 by the zealous Bishop Northburgh led to censure of the prioress for her extravagant dress and for her hunting with hounds.
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Three others—including the ex-prioress, Emma de Stapleton—appear to have also left Keldholme, but without permission; they were summoned before the Archbishop. Relations between the priory and the Archbishop were by now, says the historian Martin Heale, "acrimonious", and the removal of individual nuns from the arena had done nothing to improve them. OnFebruary 1309, Greenfield wrote to Keldholme's sub-prioress and the convent. He insisted that they immediately write to Lady Joan Wake, Lady of Liddell,—the priory's patron—informing her that they willingly accepted de Pykering to head their house.
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The Archbishop's efforts came to nothing, says Burton, and Greenfield was forced to concede that Pykering was not the best choice for the priory. On the 14th, Greenfield instructed the commission to discuss de Pykering's future with her. They were to establish whether she wished to resign; if she did, the sub-prioress and convent were instructed to hold an election to choose a new superior. De Pykering resigned as prioress of Keldholme the same month and returned to Rosedale; her opponents in Keldholme, says Power, "were triumphant".
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Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach (15 May 169714 April 1775) was the wife of Landgrave William "the Younger" of Hesse-Wanfried and after his death prioress of the Carmelite monastery in Neuburg an der Donau as Sister Augusta.
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The convent Church of the Holy Cross simultaneously served the Neuenwalders as parish church. The advowson was first with the provost and later with the prioress of the convent. After 1692 it was with Bremen-Verden's general government.
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Alijt Bake (d. 1455) was a Dutch nun and writer, prioress of the Galilea convent in Ghent, Belgium. Among her writings are a spiritual autobiography containing accounts of encounters with Christ. Bake joined the Galilea convent in 1438.
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The nuns' chorus also performed for guests of the abbey, among the nobility and royalty. Christina Nilsdotter was also appointed to the post of prioress, where she is said to have been very firm in advocating the rules.
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He is finally rescued by Richard II who decides that the Wife may marry a sixth time only on condition that she marry a miller. A devoted miller joyfully accepts the opportunity and the Prioress and Chaucer are reconciled.
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The psalter appears to have been illuminated in Oxford, in the 13th century.Perkins 2006: p. 34. If it was indeed intended for an Ionan prioress, it is uncertain if the psalter ever made it to Iona.Higgitt 2000: p. 278.
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A great benefit to the priory is implied.Suckling, 'Flixton', pp. 192-93. Margery de Stonham succeeded as prioress, and at her death in 1345 Isabel Weltham was elected.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', notes 22-23, citing Norwich Episcopal Registers, Vol.
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Jessopp, Visitations, pp. 142-44 & xliii-xliv. (Internet Archive). By 1520 Margaret Punder had resigned as prioress, and the community of seven (mostly as before) was now led by Alicia (probably Elizabeth) Wright, who kept a number of dogs.
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Text of Charter in Suckling, History and Antiquities, I, p. 190 (Internet Archive). Page, 'Priory of Flixton', misquotes the source as Lansdowne 477. The monastery was limited to 18 nuns and a prioress, the first of whom was Alianora.
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Joan's sister Agnes had become prioress by 1234, when Hamo de Valoines represented her in a land transaction.Rye, Feet of Fines for Suffolk, p. 33, 19 Henry III, no. 64. View original in AALT (Anglo-American Legal tradition website).
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Her experience almost certainly triggered a change to the law in England to make abduction of a property- owning woman a felony. Later in life, Jane became the last Prioress of Markyate Priory before it was dissolved in 1536.
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On 10 October 1635 provost and conventuals elected a new prioress, then titled domina, Margarete Drewes. In 1636 the convent buildings were externally reconstructed. The conventuals resumed educating and lodging noble girls as had been the practice of old.
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Myrna took the name Sister Mary Hermenegildes, and later became the order's Mother Prioress and served as spiritual adviser to former president Corazon C. Aquino and Pope John Paul II.Family records of the family of Don Pedro G. Cabral.
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He declared that he found there a prioress and four or five nuns, of whom one had 'two fair children' and another 'one child and no more'; and also describes how Lord Mordaunt had induced the prioress and her 'foolish young flock' to break open the coffer containing the charters of the priory, and to seal a writing in Latin of which they did not understand a word, but were told it was merely the lease of an impropriate benefice. 'All say they durst not say him nay,' he adds; 'and the prioress saith plainly that she would never consent thereto.' In the case of Chicksand, which is charged with similar misdoings in the same letter, the very form and content of the accusation challenge criticism at once. But if the charges laid against Harrold are denied, it can only be on the simple ground that Layton is a discredited witness.
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Mary Rose Columba Adams (21 March 1832 — 30 December 1891), born Sophia Charlotte Louisa Adams, was an English Roman Catholic Dominican prioress, recognized as a founder of St. Dominic's Priory and the Church of Perpetual Adoration in North Adelaide, Australia.
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They had two daughters before Barre abandoned them and went to Ireland. Ellen stayed in Dunmow for about a year trying to find out where he had gone. She then became a servant of the prioress at the nunnery of Clerkenwell.
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Hibbert, p. 228. Prioress Elizabeth was transferred to Nuneaton Priory.Baugh et al. Houses of Benedictine Nuns: The Priory of Farewell, footnote 45. A formal grant of Farewell and all its possessions to the dean and chapter followed on 18 August 1527.
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Located in separate cantons, Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent, a community of Benedictine nuns, form a double monastery, both under the authority of the male Abbot of Einsiedeln. The female prioress of Fahr cannot be elected to oversee both communities.
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Servant of God Francisca del Espíritu Santo de Fuentes (1647 – August 24, 1711) is a Spanish Roman Catholic religious figure. She was the first Prioress of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in the Philippines.
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Caetano Vitorino joined the seminary to complete his studies for the priesthood (which he had interrupted to get married), and Rosa Maria became a nun, joining the St. Monica convent in Old Goa, where she rose to the position of prioress.
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In June 1946, the Prioress General of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Rev. Mo. Natividad Pilapil, OP, received another invitation from the Bishop of the Diocese of Calbayog, Most Rev. Miguel Acebedo, DD. The request was to open a school in Catarman that would be of great help to the Church's mission of teaching its doctrines and practicing its morals. In answer to the request of the Bishop, the prioress general instructed three Sisters assigned in La Milagrosa Academy in Calbayog City, Samar to proceed to Catarman and administer the opening of a new school.
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By 1536 it held of the cultivated land in the parish, but in that year the priory was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the last prioress was pensioned off by the Crown. A charter issued under Henry III between 1222 and 1227 granted the prioress the right to hold at Ickleton a weekly market, an annual fair and a court leet. The charter may have been in confirmation of an earlier one that the priory claimed was granted by King Stephen. The market was every Thursday and the annual fair was on the feast of St Mary Magdalene, 22 July.
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Fr Frere advised that there was already in existence in the USA an Order called The Society of the Holy Spirit, and suggested The Order of the Holy Paraclete. The Rule and Constitution of the Order were formally accepted by Archbishop Lang by August 1917. The First Professions of the Order took place on 16 October 1917, followed by the first formal meeting of the Chapter, at which Fr Frere resigned as Spiritual Adviser and at which Mother Margaret was officially elected as the first Prioress of the Order. The installation of Mother Margaret as Prioress took place on the same day.
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The prioress complained that Margaret was disobedient: Margaret replied that her allowance, her provisions and winter fuel were withheld. The sisters, including Alicia Laxfield, all objected that no special consideration was made when they were ill. The Visitor broke off his inspection and a week later the Chancellor of the Diocese returned to continue. Margaret repeated her complaints, adding that the prioress often slept away from the common dormitory in her own bedroom, without the presence of a sister as chaplain; and that as this was against the rule of their religion, she would not obey her.
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The nuns also claimed that, despite Wells's promises to Atwell, Hewes had continued to visit the prioress since the Horde's visitation. Logan suggests it may have been Elizabeth who had reported Wells to Horde during the 1517 visit and that this was the prioress's revenge. One nun, Juliana Bechamp, who seems to have remained uninvolved in the various troubles, told the bishop that she was "ashamed to [be] here [under] the evil ruele [of] my ladye". The scandals besetting Littlemore Priory were by then very much public knowledge, and both prioress and nuns had their supporters in the City of Oxford.
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The sisters elect their prioress when it is time for her to retire. Thus, on February 17, 2019, after a year-long discernment process, Sister Martha Elisabeth was elected by the nine sisters currently in the community to succeed Sister Danièle, who had been the prioress of the community for 26 years. Thanks to the maturation process which was followed, the 9 sisters voted unanimously for this sister of Swiss origin. The transfer of powers was made in the presence of Emmanuelle Seyboldt, president of the United Protestant Church of France of which the community of Pomeyrol is a full member.
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With the defeat of Jacobite forces at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691, their future again came into question. In 1698, they were again dispersed. James Hardiman wrote of the event: > It was most deplorable ... to witness the cries and tears of these > distressed females, by which even their very persecutors were moved to > compassion. The convent was converted into a barrack; but the nuns remained > secretly in town, among their friends, under the direction of the venerable > prioress ... Hardiman further states that "the venerable prioress ... was released by death from all her sufferings" in 1701, aged 90.
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Shortly after this she was ordered to the monastery of Saintes, where she remained for 18 months. In 1624 she was recalled to Paris, to replace as prioress Mother Madeleine de Saint-Joseph in the monastery situated on the Rue Chapon. After having been several times prioress of that monastery, where she showed a zeal for bodily mortification that her superiors had sometimes to moderate, she developed dropsy, of which she died. Margaret's heart was taken to the monastery at Pontoise, where her mother had been buried, and her body remained in the monastery on Rue Chapon, where it was kept until 1792.
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In 1535 Parliament passed the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535. Thomas Cromwell's commissioners inspected the priory in September 1535 and May 1536, and reported that the prioress and her nine nuns were of good faith and blameless character. Henry VIII nonetheless ordered the commissioners to suppress the priory, which they did before the end of 1536. The last prioress was pensioned off, her nuns and dependents were evicted, all the priory's furnishings were seized, its hand-bells were scrapped, and the lead from the roofs of the priory church and buildings was taken and sold for scrap.
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The community of Benedictine nuns at Black Ladies was very small. At dissolution in 1538, there were only three nuns and the prioress to receive pensions.Hibbert, p. 227. A canonical visitation in 1521 had also found only four nuns living in the priory.
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The provost and the convent's prioress stewarded its possessions together.Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 24\. No ISBN.
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257, footnote 2. Two of the nuns had left the convent. In the case of Alice de Kynynton, Northburgh promised to support the prioress with la verge de discipline:Baugh et al. Houses of Benedictine Nuns: The Priory of Farewell, note anchor 23.
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Mary Totah Mary David Totah OSB (26 March 1957 - 28 August 2017), born Michele Frieda Totah, was a nun who became prioress of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight.Sister Mary Totah. The Times, 16 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
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The house was suppressed as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in November 1539, with pensions granted to the abbess, prioress and nuns. Considerable remains of the buildings survived into the seventeenth century, but only certain watercourses survive into the present.
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Historian Catherine Turrill suspects that while Plautilla Nelli was prioress, Prudenza Cambi may have assisted her with her paintings in the 1560s. She may have also overseen the projects of the other artists. To date there is no work attributed to her.
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In the same year, she received the Consecration of Virgins from the Primate of Poland Stefan Wyszyński. She took the name Elżbieta. In the years 1962–1967 she was a prioress of the Silesian Benedictine monastery of the Blessed Sacrament, formerly located in Lviv.
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It was a one act play written in verse and was most likely intended for performance in convents. She died in Florence at the age of 84. At that time, she had been the prioress of the Santa Maria della Disciplina convent for 35 years.
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View original at AALT. were conveyed to Prioress Beatrice (de Ratlesden), who had succeeded Alianora by 1263.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', at note 20, citing Stowe MS. 1083. At about this time the advowsons of North Creak and Helmingham also came to the priory.
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Among those receiving corrodies were Elizabeth Moor late the prioress, two brothers with their wives and maids, two other married couples, three sisters with their maid and chaplain, and a single lady. Their provisions included bread, food, wood and candles.Oliva, Convent and Community, pp.
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VCH Sussex Vol.2Knowles & Hadcock, pp.255 & 264 The last prioress, Elizabeth Sydney, received a pension of 100s, and the one remaining sister a gift of 60s. (They were two of the three nuns who had professed on 8 August, 1484.)VCH Sussex Vol.
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The prioress Margery Rendlesham is recorded in 1446 and Margaret Hengham in 1477.'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey' (V.C.H.), citing Norwich Episcopal Registers, XI, 1; xii, 59. The late years of the Priory are illuminated by the Visitations of the Bishops of Norwich.
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She also wanted to join the Carmelites, but was told she was too young. Yet Thérèse so impressed Mother Marie Gonzague, the prioress at the time of Pauline's entry to the community that she wrote to comfort her, calling Thérèse "my future little daughter".
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She moved to Ghent to live with an uncle, and in 1506 entered the Augustinian convent of St Agnes. She was eventually elected prioress of the community. As superior she focused on improving the convent's finances and buildings. She died in Ghent in 1535.
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On 18 April 1927 she was appointed as her house's prioress and she held that position until 1930 when she served as novice mistress until 1936. Moragas was again invested with the position of prioress on 1 July 1936 and would hold the position until her death. On 20 July 1936 a large mob attacked their convent so she spirited her fellow religious to safe haven while seeking shelter with Sister Teresa María in the home of the latter's parents. It was around this point that her brother asked her to come live with him in a neighbouring village for her to remain safe.
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The jury found that William had contravened his tenants' historic rights and deprived them of pasture they required for their animals through enclosures designed to improve his estate. He counter-sued the prioress and others for breaking down his fence. However, Sarah and the other tenants won their cases. It seems that White Ladies was dogged in defending common pasture. In 1305 the prioress of the time, possibly still Sarah, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin to assert her rights against William Wycher, who seems to have been particularly aggressive in enclosing commons after taking control through marriage of the manor of Blymhill, which neighboured the priory demesne.
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A 1544 map showing the details of the agreement between Alice and the Prioress concerning her use of the Priory She had inherited not only her uncle's riches but also his influence. By 1492 she was living in London's suburbs at the Augustinian Holywell Priory in Shoreditch where she paid the prioress, Elizabeth Prudde, four pounds of pepper a year. In exchange for this she was allowed to use her well and washing facilities and to make changes to the building's structures. She arranged for her living area to have a view of the church altar and for a locked entrance to her garden.
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The nuns, for their part, complained that the prioress had sold off all their wood and that Hewes had stayed with the prioress for over five months. Worse, after the previous visitation, she had ruthlessly punished those who had spoken the truth about Littlemore to Edmund Horde. Anne Wilye had spent a month in the stocks, and Elizabeth Wynter had been physically beaten in the chapter house and the cloister. The bishop was told, when Wynter eventually returned from the village with her absconding colleagues, how Wells had hit Elizabeth "on the head with fists and feet, correcting her in an immoderate way", and repeatedly stamped on her.
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The regent of Denmark, Margaret Sambiria, was forced to swear that Agnes had taken this initiative by her own freed will, before the approval was given. In reality, the Danish regent did not wish to have more of the large inheritance of the daughters of Eric IV lave Denmark, which would be the case if Agnes and her sister Jutta married foreign princes and left Denmark, as their sisters Ingeborg and Sophia had done. After the foundation of St. Agnes' Priory, Agnes was placed there by the Regent Margaret as Prioress. In 1266, the regent placed her sister Jutta in the convent as well, replacing her as prioress.
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In 1365 the Applebys granted Ash to trustees, who in turn enfeoffed the manor to a second set of trustees. In 1389 the latter trustees were licensed to alienate Ash to the Prioress of Studley. John Appleby died in 1371 and Margaret quitclaimed her rights in 1391.
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After the black death the house suffered and by 1428 there were less than ten people in Bullington and Spridlington, and this caused the church at Spridlington to fall into ruin. The house was surrendered in 1538 by the Prior, Prioress, nine canons and fourteen nuns.
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The prioress at the time of dissolution was Isabel Lawnder, who had been in office at the visitation of 1521.Baugh et al. Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Brewood (Black Ladies), note anchor 45. in A History of the County of Stafford, volume 3.
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She had been appointed prioress of the Convent of the Incarnation there in 1571.The month generally given is May. E. Allison Peers, Complete Works Vol. I (1943, xxvi), agreeing with P. Silverio, thinks it must have been substantially later than this, though certainly before 27 September.
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Saint Derchairthinn or Tarcairteann (fl 6th century) is venerated as a prioress and saint of the monastery of Oughter Ard in Ardclough, County Kildare. Her feast day is March 8.The Martyrology of Óengus mac Óengobann the CuldeeEoghan Corry and Jim Tancred; Annals of Ardclough (2004).
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The prioress and her twenty nuns, who all said omnia bene, were told to mend the books and increase the number of nuns as far as possible.Jessopp, Visitations, pp. 219-20 (Internet Archive). By 1532, however, there were only 18 inmates, and the story had changed.
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Here again, his religious views caused controversies. The authorities ordered him to leave the city by May Day 1573. The prioress Catharina von Meerfeld of the Convent of White Ladies secretly harboured him and his family in Frankfurt where he fell ill and died on 11 March 1575.
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Matilda helps Ambrosio acquire a concoction that will put Antonia in a deathlike coma. While attending to Antonia, Ambrosio administers the poison, and Antonia appears to die. Lorenzo arrives back in Madrid with a representative of the Inquisition. During a procession honouring Saint Clare, the Prioress is arrested.
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Eyton, volume 2, p. 189. It is possible that there were problems with leadership in the priory, as Prioress Joan de Hugford resigned in 1332. On 29 May Northburgh intervened again when he discovered that there had been informality in the election of Alice de Harley to replace Joan.
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In 1565 the priory lands were leased to Alexander Home of North Berwick by his sister, the last prioress, Margaret Home. On 20 March 1588 King James VI turned these lands into a free barony for Home. The buildings of the priory were said to be ruinous in 1587.
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Named after Mother Mary Teresa Moore, OP. who led the initial group of founding sisters of the college in 1868. As the first Prioress of St. Mary's Franklin Street, she conditioned the building of a small girls boarding school. The house colours for Moore are red and white.
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The prioress of the monastery also held the title of Baroness of Douglas. This was a secular title of nobility which gave her extensive revenues from land holdings, as well as privileges almost matching those of the Lord of Mann. By virtue of this office, the prioress was able to hold court in her own name, to call her vassals back—even from the prison of the Lord of Mann—and to try them by a jury of her tenants. All of the barons were occasionally summoned to Tynwald Hill to pay fealty to the Lord of Mann; if they did not appear within 40 days, they risked losing their lands and title.
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When Prioress Alice Wood retired in 1498, she was assigned the income from Tibshelf, about a fifth of the total revenues, as a pension, but Bishop Arundel required that she pay for her own food if she stayed at Brewood. From about that date, serious decline seems to have set in – probably because most of the income came from leases at fixed rents in a time of inflation. In 1521 it was found that, although the priory was actually not in debt, the prioress, probably Margaret Sandford, did not know how to render account and two canonesses claimed they were still owed their monthly incomes. In 1524 the dormitory was reported to be in bad repair.
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On 17 April 1308, the Archbishop of York, William Greenfield, issued an official inquiry regarding the current vacancy. This commission was required to establish three things: when the vacancy had begun, how long Keldholme had lacked the necessary leadership, and whether this had lasted more than six months. The final criterion was significant because a vacancy of over six months allowed the archbishop to bypass the nuns' right to appoint their own prioress, and install a candidate of his choosing. The commission was headed by two local rectors, who were instructed that, if it was discovered that the nuns' right to elect a prioress had not lapsed they were to do so within one month.
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The historian Martin Heale has described the situation at Keldholme between 1308 and 1309 as an example of the "considerable friction" the imposition of a perceived outsider could cause within an enclosed community. Power has suggested that it illustrates the dangers of internal strife spreading beyond the priory's walls and impacting on neighbouring society. Janet Burton concurs, noting that it demonstrates that both the person of the prioress and her election were clearly of great interest to the wider community as well as the priory, between whom there was clearly a "close interaction". Valerie Spear suggests this is most likely because the position of prioress was a coveted one for local women.
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Guido Island () is an island lying northeast of Prioress Island in the Wauwermans Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950; the name "Isla Guido Spano" appears on a 1957 chart and is for Carlos Guido Spano (1829–1918), a famous Argentine poet.
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Arden Priory was a priory near to Hawnby in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. A Benedictine nunnery has been recorded here since 1150 and at the time of its dissolution in 1536 it had 6 nuns, one Prioress and an elderly sister. They were aided by sixteen servants.
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Hardman 1937, p.50-51 By explanation, Mostyn noted that "it would be a strange thing to see a God become so little and humble and not to strive to imitate Him".Bedingfeld 1878, p.184 Mostyn remained as Prioress of the Lierre community for 24 years until her death.
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Prioress of the Monastery The Baroque-style Church of St. Peter and Paul was built in the mid-18th century. The Annunciation Church was built in 1748 also in the Baroque style. The St. Nicholas Monastery was mostly destroyed during the Soviet period, but has been undergoing renovations since 1999.
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The Iona Psalter, which may have been owned by Bethóc. Bethóc ingen Somairle was a 13th-century Scottish prioress, considered to have been the first of Iona Nunnery. She was a daughter of Somairle mac Gilla Brigte. In about 1203, Bethóc's brother, Ragnall mac Somairle, founded the Benedictine Iona Abbey.
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Euphemia of Racibórz () (1299/1301 – 17 January 1359) was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast in the Racibórz branch and Dominican Prioress in Racibórz. She was the third child but second daughter of Duke Przemysław of Racibórz by his wife Anna, daughter of Konrad II of Masovia.
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St. Leonards Nunnery was a house of Augustininian canonesses at Perth, Scotland, founded in the 13th century."St. Leonards". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 1 June 2010. After King Edward I of England's foray in Scotland in 1296, the Prioress swore fealty to him.
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The convent was annexed to the Carthusian Monastery at Perth by 1434 and was suppressed in 1438. Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of George I, Earl of March, was a prioress of the convent in the 14th-15th century."Perth, the Ancient Capital of Scotland, Chapter IV". ElectricScotland.com. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
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47-48 (Internet Archive). Elizabeth might also be the prioress Isabella (these names being sometimes interchanged at that period) recorded in 1503Willis, An History of the Mitred Abbies, II, p. 223. who is also rumoured to occur in 1483.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing Stowe MS [sc. 1083], no. 74.
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423-27 (Hathi Trust). and lastly his son John L'Estrange and his widow Eleanor in 1416 (in the time of prioress Alice Corbet), confirmed and made further grants there to Campsey Priory.J. Stevens, The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, 2 vols (Thomas Taylor, etc.
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The Wife of Bath and the Prioress are depicted wearing wimples in the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400). The King James Version of the Bible explicitly lists wimples in Isaiah 3:22 as one of a list of female fineries; however, the Hebrew word "miṭpaḥoth" (מִטְפָּחוֹת) means "kerchief".
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In France, he was imprisoned because: (1) he was a friend of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and (2) he refused to allow Francis I of France to impose Jeanne d'Amboise as prioress of the Dominican convent at Prouille. He was released in 1538 and died a short time later.
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At long last, the Beaterio de Sta. Catalina de Sena de las Hermanas de Penitencia de la Tercera Orden was formally inaugurated on 26 July 1696, the feast of St. Anne. Mother Francisca del Espiritu Santo became the prioress for life. Considered as the co-founders were Fray Juan de Sto.
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The Monkswell comprises a short tunnel with leading to a semicircular vaulted roofed chamber with well shaft. There are reports paranormal phenomena at the Monks Well. The Prioress Tomb is to the left of the path leading to the Grange near the gate to the car park behind Ingress Abbey.
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The Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena is a Dominican congregation of religious sisters under the patronage of St. Catherine of Siena. It was founded by Fr. Juan de Sto. Domingo, O.P., of Spain in 1696. Mother Francisca del Espiritu Santo Fuentes was appointed prioress for life.
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Christina of Markyate was born with the name Theodora in Huntingdon, England, about 1096–1098 and died about 1155. She was an anchoress, who came from a wealthy Anglo-Saxon family trying to accommodate with the Normans at that time. She later became the prioress of a community of nuns.
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Titles of the Frevisse novels follow the format of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, e.g., The Novice's Tale, The Prioress's Tale. There is no relation between Frazer's title characters and Chaucer's, even when they have the same role in life (e.g. Chaucer's Prioress is a dainty, sentimental woman while Frazer's is an ambitious, domineering one).
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María Ascensión Nicol y Goñi, O.P., (14 March 1868 - 24 February 1940) was a Spanish Roman Catholic religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic. She co-founded and was the first Prioress General of the Congregation of Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Rosary, which she helped to found in Peru.
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The district of Hohenholte has a population of about 1,000 residents. In the parish church of St. George, a former monastery church, there is a crucifixion relief from the period around 1530/40 as well as the epitaph of the prioress Richmond Warendorp († 1503), both created by the sculptor Johann Brabender from Münster.
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For a short period, the order was directed by Francis himself.Bartoli, p. 95. Then in 1216, Clare accepted the role of abbess of San Damiano. As abbess, Clare had more authority to lead the order than when she was the prioress and required to follow the orders of a priest heading the community.
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She became a Benedictine nun in Bassano on 8 September 1622 and fell into an ecstatic state for the first time at her profession celebration. She was also believed to have obtained the stigmata. She served as a novice mistress and later as a prioress. She also served as an abbess three times.
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Barton, 201. The laymen of the Vélaz family, however, retained the right to veto the election of a prioress, who was to be from among their kin. The laywomen of the Vélaz clan were given the option of residing and being cared for in the convent without having to take the habit.
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The master, however, was to celebrate high mass at special feasts in the priory church.'Priory of Campsey', History of the County of Suffolk. Maria de Felton died in 1394 and was succeeded as prioress by Margaret de Bruisyard.'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey' (V.C.H.), citing Norwich Episcopal Registers, vi, 195.
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Eric II married Sophia of Pomerania-Stolp. With his wife, he had nine children: #Bogislaw X (1454–1523) #Casimir (ca. 1455–1474) #Wartislaw (after 1465–1475) #Barnim (after 1465–1474) #Elisabeth (d. 1516), prioress of Verchen Nunnery #Sophie (1460–1504), ∞ Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and -Güstrow (1441–1503) #Margaret (d.
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She was given the name "Madeleva" upon her acceptance into the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1908. Sister Madeleva was known for her poetry, her eloquence and her outspokenness. She was a medieval scholar, whose literary essays won her distinction. She wrote a good deal in defense of Geoffrey Chaucer's character "The Prioress".
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This was to cover the Priory's property and debts following "unusually heavy mortality amongst their cattle" and "the badness of the past few years". Robert of Alsop and Simon of Little Chester were appointed as custodians of the Priory, as per the nun's wishes. The priory still seems to be in debt seven years after the royal protection was granted, as the nun's poverty is mentioned by the bishop in his letters appointing the new Prioress in December 1334. Also during the reign of King Edward III (1327-1377) the Prioress paid £30 for a licence which allowed the priory to take possession of 10 messuages, a mill, four shops, 6 cottages, 50 acres of land and 10 acres of meadow.
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Margaret Olton complained of the meagre diet, and said the prioress diverted alms to her own use, did not pay the annual allowances, and did not render accounts, becoming angry if anyone gave them anything. Discipline was not kept, said Elizabeth Wright, and some sisters (especially Elisabeth Asshe and Margaret Rowse) sometimes failed to rise for morning prayer: but the prioress did not support the senior sisters, and was so severe that they scarcely dared to complain. Three said she was keeping frequent company with one John Welles, her kinsman, and one added that she had bought a place in the parish and often met him there. The bishop banished him from the parish completely and forbade him ever to meet her again.
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'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey' (V.C.H.), citing Norwich Episcopal Registers, xiii, 21, 36. Prioress Elizabeth Everard is called "successor Anne nuper priorisse de Campessey" in a debt plea of Hilary 1514, CP40/1005B, rot. 196 dorse: view original at AALT img. 0352 (final entry). On 31 July 1514, having reprimanded canon Reginald Westerfield at Butley Priory for calling the junior canons "whoresons", Bishop Nykke spent the night at Campsey and saw the nuns on the following day. He found prioress Elizabeth Everard, her subprioress Petronilla Fulmerstoune, and the nineteen other sisters all most praiseworthy in temporal and spiritual affairs, and only asked them to make an inventory of their goods before he moved on to inspect Woodbridge Priory.
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With the ius praesentandi in Midlum the convent determined the priest there, in 1557 being the Catholic Nikolaus Stroßborg, and chose him as confessor for the convent. In 1557 — under pressure by Joachim Moller, Hamburg's bailiff in Ritzebüttel — Prioress von der Hude could not help it to confirm the Lutheran Hinrich Voß as preacher of Ss. Cosmas and Damian in Altenwalde, however, binding him to refrain from any hetz against the nuns. On this occasion prioress and convent appealed against the alienation of mostly liturgical devices from the Altenwalde Ss. Cosmas and Damian Church in favour of the newly founded Döse church.Hermann Joachim, „Die Begründung der Döser Kirche und des Döser Kirchspiels“, in: Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, vol.
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The house is named after the adjacent Grace Dieu Priory, a priory founded in 1240 by Roesia de Verdun for fourteen Augustinian nuns and a prioress . It was dissolved in 1540 and granted to Sir Humphrey Foster, who immediately conveyed it to John Beaumont (fl. 1550), Master of the Rolls, who made it his residence.
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The stress from the investigation resulted in long illness for Castillo, who eventually had to voluntarily leave the convent as she failed to complete the required length of stay for a novice. She later assisted in compiling and transcribing an English-Tagalog dictionary. The prioress of Carmel, Cecilia Zialcita, was transferred to another convent.
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After William's death, Ernestine continued to live at Rheinfels Castle for a while, but then became prioress of the Carmelite monastery at Neuburg an der Donau, where she died on 5 April 1775. Hesse-Wanfried and Hesse-Rheinfels were inherited by his younger half-brother, who had styled himself Christian of Eschwege since 1711.
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He worked with painter Francesco da Milano on the tomb of the prioress of the local convent of S. Sebastiano. In the 1490s he worked on the Cathedral of Naples crypt (Succorpo, commissioned by Cardinal Oliviero Carafa, though the statue there is generally attributed to Giovanni Tommaso), and the marble portal of Santissima Annunziata Maggiore.
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Drane was influenced by Tractarian teachings and joined the Roman Catholic Church in Tiverton around 1850. In 1852, after a six-month stay in Rome, she joined the third order of St Dominic, to which she belonged for over forty years. She was prioress of the convent in Stone, Staffordshire, where she died aged 70.
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This was done to enable the priory to find a chaplain to celebrate divine service every Monday in the conventual church for the souls of the faithful departed.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III: 1370–1374 (HMSO 1914), p. 123 (Hathi Trust). Margery Howell, elected prioress in 1376, ruled the community until her death in 1392.
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William de Braose was the patron when the foundation was confirmed c.1200 by Seffrid II, Bishop of Chichester. The priory was probably for twelve nuns under a prioress. The priory received income from the churches of Warnham, Ifield, and Selham, to which John de Braose added that of Horsham in or before 1231.
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According to Caesarius, women should be in charge of convents. The abbess or prioress should be "superior in rank" and "obeyed without murmuring".Ranft 116. Caesarius ensured that the abbesses of the convents would be free of forced obedience to the local diocesan bishop by obtaining a Papal letter exempting the convent from episcopal authority.
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She was appointed prioress in 1277, but her brother, Ladislaus, kidnapped and married her to a Czech baron, Zavis of Falkenstein, in 1288. Stephen's youngest daughter, Anna, was born in about 1260. She married Andronikos Palaiologos, son and heir of the Byzantine Emperor, Michael VIII. Stephen's first son, Ladislaus IV, was born in 1262.
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Dickon almost drowns in a bog. Wounded, Robin takes refuge in Kirklees, whose prioress bleeds him to death to claim a reward from the Earl. Alerted by an arrow shot by Robin from his deathbed, the outlaws reclaim his body and burn down the priory in revenge. After burying Robin, the outlaw band breaks up.
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The stucco work was performed by Giuseppe Scarola. The silverware for the altars were completed by Felice Cioffi in 1735 - 1738. The pavement in tile and maiolica was designed by Nauclerio. In 1743, the prioress of the Hospice, Anna Sanfelice, commissioned a polychrome marble altar designed by Ferdinando Sanfelice, and completed by Giuseppe Astarita.
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Prioress Island () is a narrow island lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) east of Host Island in the Wauwermans Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1958 after one of the characters in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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His father having died in the interval, the son Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass (d.1517) was present in person at his hearing. The offender was fined 15 merks. In July 1547, during the war of the Rough Wooing, Elizabeth, prioress of Haddington was made keeper of the 'place and fortalice of Nunraw.
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The house was used as a refuge by the English Augustinian Canonesses of Bruges from 1794–1802, led by their Prioress Mother Mary More. The Canonesses ran a school. In 1887, on the death of Lady Henrietta Gage, the house was bought by John Lysaght, one of the founders of the Australian steel industry.
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Mary More (1732–1807) was born to Thomas More and Catherine Gifford, in Barnborough, Yorkshire. She is the last lineal descendant of Sir Thomas More. Mother More is known for being the seventh Prioress at the Priory of Nazareth and leading her community through crises during the reign of Joseph II and the French Revolution.
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Although the convent was able to independently elect a new prioress, Elisabeth Schneverding, they accepted their incorporation into the Protestant Landeshoheit of the duke. Duke Ernest, on the other hand, surprisingly accepted that the convent remained a secular foundation for unmarried Protestant women (Damenstift), and did not dissolve the institution as a whole.Brandis, Zur Reformationsgeschichte (2017), 41.
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There is a legend about Robin Hood who was supposed to be the nephew of the prioress, who sheltered him when he was fleeing from the Sheriff of Nottingham, but killed him with poison. There is still a "Robin Hood's Grave" on the local Ordnance Survey map. The Jacobean Kirklees Hall was built in the late 16th century.
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Each house was under three prioresses who presided in the frater and visited the sick. The other officers were the sub-prioress, cellaress, subcellaress, sacrist, and precentrix. The lay sisters were bound to serve and obey the nuns. They cooked for the whole community under the supervision of a nun, who served for a week at a time.
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Robert Ingelby was the Prior of Alvingham from 1534 to 1538. Joan Barker was the Prioress of Alvingham in 1538. There is also a seal of the 13th century, which is a pointed oval. This seal symbolizes the Virgin who is crowned, seated on a carved throne, with ornamental corbel and with the Child sitting on the left knee.
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Cecily was born on an unknown date, the daughter of Roger Bodenham of Rotherwas, Herefordshire and Joane Bromwich. She became a nun at Kingston St Michael in Wiltshire; eventually becoming the Prioress. In 1511, she was kidnapped by a curate of Castle Coombe, who also robbed the priory.Kathy Lynn Emerson, A Who's Who of Tudor Women.
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Irena Maria "Ika" Popiel (22 June 1925 – 15 October 2010) was a Polish nun who served at the order of the Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and was a prioress of the order's convent in Warsaw, as well as the initiator and co-founder of the Conference of Superiors of Female Confraternity Monasteries in Poland.
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The nunnery was valued in 1291 at £10 and in 1535 was valued at £19 2s. 2d, which included £6 from the rectory of the church of 'Aynstablie,' of which the prioress was patron. The property of the nunnery at the time of the dissolution was scattered in Ainstable, Kirkoswald, Cumwhitton, Blencarn, Kirkland, Glassonby, Crofton and Carlisle.
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There are some remains of the conventical church, with lancet-shaped windows. A fragment of what appears to have been the monumental slab of a prioress is built into the wall of a barn at High Hyton not far from the nunnery towards the sea. Part has been lost, but the remaining inscription reads: + HIC IACET . . . DENTONA AN . . .
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In 1404 Walter Skirlaw, who was Bishop of Durham from 1388 to 1406, bequeathed £100 to the nuns of Swine. There were several disputes with the nearby Meaux Abbey. The nunnery was closed as part of the dissolution of the monasteries 1539. When the priory surrendered on 9 September 1539 there was a prioress and 19 nuns.
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Thus, the boundary of chapelry of St. Lawrence coexisted with that of the manor. It was a part of the parish of Hanwell until moved into Brentford. Then in about 1280 King Edward I granted this area of the township to the prioress of St Helen's Bishopsgate. It is at this point Boston became a recognised rural settlement.
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Barba worked hard with caution to revive the spirit of their foundress and under her able leadership the convent grew to a point where a new foundation could be made in Siracusa. The prioress also helped to secure the return of the friars of the order to the Sicilian region. Barba spent hours before the Eucharist.
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25 Charlton then accompanied Henry to Chester in his march against Richard II, and was afterwards in high favour with him. About this time Charlton showed his personal severity and the extent of the franchises of a lord marcher by condemning to death the seneschal of Usk for an intrigue with his natural sister, probably prioress of that town.
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Birgitta Botolfsdotter, or Botulfsdotter (fl. 1567) was a Swedish Roman Catholic nun, abbess of Vadstena Abbey during the ongoing Protestant Reformation. Birgitta was inducted into the order in 1492 by the Bishop of Linköping, who also financed her convent dowry. She became a prioress, and was in 1534 made abbess for the double convent of Vadstena.
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The appropriation of Fundenhall church raised new problems, for in 1370 the parishioners invoked the old and recurrent judgement that the Rector was responsible for repairs or rebuilding.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing Bodleian Rolls, Suffolk 13.; Blomefield, 'Fundenhale', p. 113. At this time Joan Marshall was prioress,Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing Stowe MS 1082, no. 83.
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He in his father's lifetime bestowed those rights upon Margery with the manor of Benhall, in dower.Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1266–1272 (HMSO 1913), p. 623 (Hathi Trust). Meanwhile, the prioress of Campsey was bringing pleas in 1273–1277 against Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Essex, and Henry de Bohun for annual rents from Nuthampstead in Hertfordshire.
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The dissolution took place on 13 April 1527. At this point the last prioress, Elizabeth Kilshawe, was seised of lands and properties valued at £33 6s. 8d. It seems that the planned transfer of the nuns went ahead. One of the nuns, Felicia Bagshawe, probably a native of Farewell manor, was sent to Black Ladies Priory, near Brewood.
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The conventuals were provided free heating, board and lodge, as well as annually Rtlr 30 (the prioress the double sum).Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, „Einige Nachrichten von den ehemaligen Klöstern im Herzogthum Bremen“, in: Neues vaterländisches Archiv oder Beiträge zur allseitigen Kenntniß des Königreichs Hannover und des Herzogthums Braunschweig, Lunenburg: Herold & Wahlstab, 1822–1832, vol. 6, no. 2 (1828), pp.
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In the absence of the new prioress, Mother Marie proposes that the nuns take a vow of martyrdom. However, all must agree, or Mother Marie will not insist. A secret vote is held; there is one dissenting voice. Sister Constance declares that she was the dissenter, and that she has changed her mind, so the vow can proceed.
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Port of Vilaxoán The island had a Celtic settlement (Castro) on the hill in the middle of the island. This settlement is called "Cova dos Mouros" by the local people. During the Middle Ages there was a Benedictine convent that lasted until the 15th century, Maria Vizoso being its last prioress. It was a fertile, well-cultivated soil.
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In the preface of that document Lucia is called the foundress of the priory. As the role of "founder" is generally ascribed to lay patrons and the countess presumably cooperated with her husband in the founding of the house, 18th-century scholars erroneously assumed that the prioress was Earl Aubrey's widow. Royal records disprove that assumption. RaGena DeAragon.
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"Benedictine Sisters in St. Leo, Florida expand their monastery ", Hernando Sun Following Benedictine tradition, the sisters seek a balance of prayer and work, community and solitude, an integration of contemplative living and active ministry on behalf of others. The monastery hosts retreats. Sister Roberta Bailey, O.S.B., is the current Prioress as elected by the monastery members.
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He forced his way in and during his visit, punched through a painting of the crucifixion. In 1565, the Dominicans and their last prioress Anna von Seckendorff were expelled. They moved to Adelhausen monastery in Freiburg im Breisgau. At the Diet of Augsburg in 1566, Anna made her last attempt to save the monastery, however, she was unsuccessful.
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After the death of her husband in 1288, Gryfina's nephew Wenceslaus II of Bohemia claimed Poland on the basis of his aunt's marriage. Gryfina retired to the monastery of the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz. The prioress there was her mother's sister, Kinga, the widow of Bolesław V the Chaste. After Kinga's death, Gryfina became abbess.
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The remains of old roads crisscross the region many of them focusing on Gudum. The priory was run by the prioress who organized and administered the day-to-day life of the nuns. A prior was appointed by the bishop to take care of priestly functions required by the nuns. The position was often overlooked or remained vacant.
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Agnes of Jesus, O.P., (born Agnès Galand and also known as Agnes of Langeac; November 17, 1602 – October 19, 1634) was a French Catholic nun of the Dominican Order. She was prioress of her monastery at Langeac, and is today venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, having been beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 20, 1994.
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Agnes joined the Dominican Monastery of St. Catherine of Siena at Langeac in 1623. At her receiving of the religious habit she took the name Agnes of Jesus. Soon after her own profession, she was assigned to serve as the Mistress of novices for the community. Agnes was elected to lead her community as prioress in 1627.
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Bisson, pp. 67–68. The murder of Thomas Becket Churchmen of various kinds are represented by the Monk, the Prioress, the Nun's Priest, and the Second Nun. Monastic orders, which originated from a desire to follow an ascetic lifestyle separated from the world, had by Chaucer's time become increasingly entangled in worldly matters. Monasteries frequently controlled huge tracts of land on which they made significant sums of money, while peasants worked in their employ.Bisson, pp. 73–75, 81. The Second Nun is an example of what a Nun was expected to be: her tale is about a woman whose chaste example brings people into the church. The Monk and the Prioress, on the other hand, while not as corrupt as the Summoner or Pardoner, fall far short of the ideal for their orders.
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In 1378, all the monks in alien priories had been expelled from England and finally in 1414, under Henry V, those that remained were suppressed. The situation at Amesbury was not so drastic, partly because the house fell into a distinct subcategory of its kind since for a long time the head of the house, the prioress, had been elected by the nuns, by the king's leave and with his confirmation, rather than being appointed by the abbess of Fontevraud, their nominal monastic superior. It would seem, however, that Amesbury suffered the same systemic disciplinary problems as elsewhere. Over a decade after the earlier storm, the prioress launched an appeal to the King, claiming she had been evicted from the house and was afraid to enter it again.
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It consists of 5,963 lines of rhyming couplets in the distinctive Moselle Franconian German dialect, which bears close similarities to today's Luxembourgish. The poem tells how Princess Yolanda gave up the comforts of her home in Vianden Castle to join the Convent of Marienthal where she later became the prioress."Luxemburg, Bibl. Nationale, Ms. 860", Marburger Repertorium, Deutschsprachige Handschriften des 13.
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She was transferred to Modica and she used her time to help the poor and orphaned girls. She made her profession as "Maria" in 1895. She was elected as the prioress of the Chapter in 1897 and retained that post until 1908. Though happy with her Carmelite life, she soon felt called to live as a religious rather than as a lay Carmelite.
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She later bought the church of Saint Bernard in 1485 with the aid of the Bishop Filippo Zoboli. Scopelli became the new convent's first prioress. She also refused all gifts – and urged her fellow religious to do the same thing – unless such gifts were given as alms with no conditions attached. In 1487 a priest was assigned to them as their confessor.
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Two years later, Sidonia filed complaints against the new prioress, Agnes von Kleist. These complaints were addressed to Philip II, Bogislaw's successor. Like his predecessor, Philip sent a Commission to investigate the complaints — a Commission headed by Jost von Borcke, a relative of Sidonia's who had already been humiliated when he was involved in prior lawsuits brought by Sidonia.Riedl (2004), p. 145.
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The Duchess of Plaza Toro in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers and the Countess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades were both successful; so was Kabanisha (1980). Raisbeck's career formally ended in 1985 with a much-admired performance of the First Prioress in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. She sang on for another three years, finally retiring in 1988, aged 72.
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The court ruled in favor of the Prioress stating that Carrow was a parcel of the City of Norwich. Wills from the 15th century document many alternate spellings, such as Carhoe, or Carhowe; or Carehowe; or Carrowe. Between 1529 and 1539 there were two priests and eight women-servants. The value of the lead, bells, and buildings was estimated at £145.
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The zealous Bishop Northburgh found numerous shortcomings minor and more serious, moral and financial when he carried out a canonical visitation around 1323. Northburgh was clearly a stickler for transparent management and that of the priory fell far short of the best 14th century practice. He demanded that the prioress and other office holders be prepared to present the accounts.
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Ridderbos (2005), 136 Casembrood faces the center. She joined the hospital in 1447, became prioress in 1455, and remained in that office until her death in 1489. Her namesake, St Agnes, is identified by the lamb at her side. Van Hulson was a hospital sister from 1427 until she died in 1479; she kneels in front of St Clare who holds a monstrance.
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Humbeline of Jully (c. 1091 c. 1136) was a Benedictine nun in 11th-12th century France, who was beatified in the Roman Catholic Church in 1703 by Pope Clement XI. After obtaining permission from her then-husband, Humbeline entered the community of nuns at Jully in 1133, when a charter records the tithes she contributed. She later became prioress at Jully.
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Priory of St Leonard, Brewood, note anchor 6. However, there is no documentary evidence connecting any known figure to the founding of White Ladies: only clues in the historical context. No lay person claimed the right to nominate or approve the appointment of a prioress, or to exploit the estates during vacancies: only the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield ever intervened.
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On June 18, 1904, Mother Consuelo returned to the Philippines alone. Upon Mother Consuelo’s return to the Philippines, she was at first appointed superior of the new novitiate house of St. Joseph in Sta. Ana, Manila. She later became the prioress of the sisters of Colegio de la Consolacion, Manila, until 1915 when she was elected the first Superior General.
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The Dominican Nuns of Dartford.] and in December 1356 the prioress and nuns had licence to acquire in mortmain property to the value of £300 for the sustenance of themselves and the friars of King's Langley. Here the brothers possibly owed something to the influence of John Woderowe, the king's confessor, who in June 1356 is mentioned as their prior.
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The parish of Binbrook contains the site of the lost medieval village of Orford. Orford was the site of a priory of Premonstratensian nuns. The priory was founded around 1170 by Ralf d'Albini of the Anglo-Norman baronial house of Mowbray, and was endowed with the church at Wragby. At the time of suppression in 1539 it held a prioress and 7 nuns.
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Ruins of St Edmund's Chapel, Lyng and multi-period finds, Norfolk Heritage Explorer. Retrieved 2018-12-03. The nuns retained a messuage and of land at Lyng, paying for a chaplain to service the chapel from the profits. A lawsuit is recorded in 1438 between the prioress and the rector of Lyng, after which date the land was transferred to the village church.
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As Captain of Norham, Layton watched the border between Scotland and England. In December 1539, his men tracked the English priest Dr Hilliard, who was fleeing into Scotland. Layton's men arrested Hilliard's servant, but Hilliard crossed the Tweed near Coldstream. Layton's spies in Scotland discovered that Hilliard was received by the Prioress of Coldstream and hoped to meet David Beaton.
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Agnes was doubtless a kinswoman of (if not the same person asRidgard, 'Mettingham', reads "Agnes", but Oliva, Convent and Community, p. 69, states "Isabella", for this bequest.) Elizabeth Virly, who was prioress of Flixton at the Visitation of Bishop James Goldwell in June 1493.A. Jessopp (ed.), Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich, A.D. 1492–1532, Camden Society New Series XLIII (1888), pp.
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321–388, here p. 337. The recess further provided that Hamburg's bailiff in Ritzebüttel, then Joachim Beckendorff, ended billetting beadles in the heath villages and prompted the restitution of the abducted liturgical devices to the Ss. Cosmas and Damian Church in Altenwalde. In 1588 the number of conventuals amounted to 15 or 16. They elected Margarethe Wevers their new prioress.
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In 1775 the Knighthood built a school for the children of its feudal tenant farmers. Later more extensions followed, a turf barn and a granary (1873). In 1888 the tithebarn (Zehntscheune), anyway tithes were no more collected, was rebuilt into apartments for conventuals,Otto Edert, Neuenwalde: Reformen im ländlichen Raum, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010, p. 62\. . one of them for the prioress.
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Other students attended the school but no records exist other than what names were recalled at the 25th Reunion of Sacred Heart in 1937. One of the students, Eulalia Forkey, later became Rev. Mother M. Monica, O.S.B., prioress of the Sisters of St. Benedict, Crookston, Minn. Her father was a lumberman in the French settlement south of East Grand Forks.
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Mother Teresa of St. Augustine, the convent's prioress, suggested to the community that they commit themselves to martyrdom, and offer themselves as a sacrifice for France and for the French Church.Bush, pp. 87–88 She almost missed participating in the sacrifice she proposed because she had to return to her family's home in Paris to care for her elderly, widowed mother.
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Starting 1983, boys were accepted in the high school department. The first batch of male graduates numbered only 28. On its 48th year, on April 27, 1993, OLCA took a different course of history. The Benedictine Sisters through Mother Prioress, Sister Pia Lansang, OSB turned over the school to the Archdiocese of Lipa in the presence of Auxiliary Bishop Most Rev.
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The Augustinian convent had been founded in 1431, and joined the Congregation of Windesheim in 1438. When she joined she was 23 and already experienced enough to have run-ins with the prioress, Hilde Sonterlants, whom she referred to as "Mater Hildegont". She took her vows in 1440, and when Sonterlants died, in 1445, Bake was elected to succeed her.Ruh 252.
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Mother Yolanda (or Yolande, Iolanda) of Vianden, O.P., (1231–1283) was the youngest daughter of Count Henry I of Vianden and Margaret, Marchioness of Namur. She joined the Dominican monastery in Marienthal, Luxembourg, against the wishes of her parents when she was very young. She later became its devout prioress and is now a legend in the history of that nation.
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But its poverty was noticed by the bishop of Lincoln, Henry Burghersh, in 1332. The number of nuns in 1406 was twelve, and in 1433 there were a prioress, subprioress and nine nuns; it is probable that the revenue would never have supported more. The priory had a warden or master in 1323, like many other nunneries at that time.
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According to her wish Aleydis' heart was interred at a mausoleum that today has disappeared. The priory further flourished and gained considerable wealth thanks to the generous gifts of numerous royal persons and noble families. In 1650 a wall was erected to protect the diverse edifices of the priory. The present-day château was built as a residence for the prioress in 1780.
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By 1862 the community had grown large enough that Goemaere made a new foundation in San Francisco, St. Rose Academy. (This school operated until 1989, when its facilities were irreparably damaged by the Loma Prieta earthquake). She also opened Mount St. Mary's Academy in Reno, Nevada in 1877. In 1887 Mother Louis O'Donnell was elected the second prioress of the congregation.
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Four other nuns were also brought from the convent of St. Sixtus at Rome, including Cecila Cesarini, who was made prioress, and Bl. Amata; the three are always associated together.Vann, p. 14 Diana remained at St. Agnes until her death in 1236, and was buried there, along with the remains of Cecilia and Amata. Their relics were moved several times, but always together.
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Lodomer absolved Ladislaus on condition that the king would live in accordance with Christian morals. However, Ladislaus broke his promise in the next month, when imprisoned opponent lords in Buda. He also abducted his sister, Elizabeth, prioress of the Dominican Monastery of the Blessed Virgin on Rabbits' Island, and gave her in marriage to a Czech aristocrat, Zavis of Falkenstein.
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Cecilia Avogadro requested but did not obtain Bicchieri's consent, and was advised to take her cup to the angel in meditation for sustenance. This religious died sometime later all of a sudden and ended up in Purgatory. She appeared to the prioress and thanked her for her firmness. She was known to wear a hair shirt and often fasted as signs of penance.
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Rozenhoedkaai in Bruges More made her first profession at the Priory of Nazareth, Bruges, in 1753. Later, in 1766, she would replace Mother Olivia Darrell as the seventh Prioress of the community. The primary job of a canoness was to provide education. The Priory of Nazareth was like a boarding school and was the female counterpart to the Jesuit College at Saint-Omer.
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In September 1535, after Parliament passed the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, Sir John Tregonwell, principal agent for Thomas Cromwell, reported of Catesby Priory that "The prioress and sisters are free from suspicion". In May 1536 the local commissioners for suppressing religious houses went further, reporting: > The house of Catesby we founde in very perfect order, the prioress a sure, > wyse, discrete, and very religious woman with ix nunnys under her > obedyencye, as religious and devoute and as good obedyencye as we have in > tyme past seen or be lyke shall see. The seid house standyth in suche a > quarter muche to the releff of the kynges people and his graces pore > subjectes their lykewyse much relieved. Only the reporte of dyvers > worshyppfulles were thereunto adjoining us; of alle other yt ys to us openly > declared.
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Godwyn loses his nerve and flees with the monks to an isolated chapel where he and all the monks die except for Gwenda's brother Philemon, who fled, and Thomas Langley. After the prioress of the nunnery dies Caris is elected Prioress and promoted acting Prior in the absence of Godwin, and she institutes the use of masks and cleanliness which help to protect the nuns from the plague. With social mores loosened under the devastating effect of the plague, Caris regularly breaks her vows as a nun and for some time lives openly with Merthin; the townspeople, grateful for Caris tireless efforts, tolerate this, as does the pragmatic Bishop who himself has a long-standing homosexual relationship with his archdeacon. But the returning Philemon starts denouncing Caris, who must drop Merthin in order to continue her monastic and medical work.
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A Benedictine priory was founded around 1170, and part of the building is retained in the church of St. Mary. It was reduced in size after Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. The tomb of the last Prioress may be seen beside the path through the churchyard. The town was incorporated by charters granted by Edmund Mortimer, Edward II, Edward IV, and succeeding monarchs.
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Adalsinda is a Catholic saint, with a feast day of 5 May, especially venerated in Douai, France.Litany from Douai 14th century She was the child of Saint Richtrudis and Adalbard duke of Douai. Her siblings Clotsinda, Maurontius and Eusebia of Douai are also Pre-congregational saints. Adalsinda became a religious in Hamaye-les-Marchienne in the diocese of Arras, where the prioress was her own sister, Eusebia.
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Days after the first shower of rose petals, total blindness affected Castillo. Mother Mary Cecilia of Jesus then heard a woman's voice telling her to kiss the postulant's eyes so that the latter will recover her sight. In the presence of Bishop Obviar, the Prioress lifted Castillo's veil and kissed the postulant's eyes. Immediately, the girl recovered her sight, and Bishop Obviar no longer doubted the apparitions.
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PhD thesis, University of York. The priory was active until most of its inhabitants died from the Black Death. Men and women continued to join the house until the sixteenth century when all the monasteries of the Gilbertine Order were dissolved. Following the surrender of the house on 29 September 1538 pensions were paid to twenty people: a prior, seven canons, a prioress and eleven nuns.
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Nonetheless they had local supporters. In 1356 Dame Agnes, the consort of Sir Richard de Denton, bequeathed 10s. and in 1358 John de Salkeld 40s. to the prioress and her sisters. Richard de Ulnesby, rector of Ousby, bequeathed in 1362 a cow, while in 1376 a citizen of Carlisle, William de London, and a country gentleman, Roger de Salkeld, in 1379, made them bequests of money.
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Later, in 1357, Henry, Duke of Lancaster, likewise granted the appropriation of the hospital of St. Leonard, Lancaster, to assist the house. The abbey of Holmcultram also helped the nuns. In 1459, Thomas York, abbot of Holmcultram, leased all the lands the abbey possessed between Esk and Duddon, called Lekeley, to Elizabeth Croft, prioress, for twelve years at an annual rent of twenty shillings.
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Mother Margaret Mostyn (8 December 1625 – 29 August 1679), in religion Margaret of Jesus, was an English Carmelite and Prioress of the Lierre Carmel from 1654 until her death. According to the book "Religion and Women in Britain, c. 1660–1760" she is remembered for her devotion to the Virgin MaryApetrei (2014), p93 and for a series of visions that she experienced throughout her life.Hardman 1937, p.
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Robert of Arbrissel, a tireless evangelist, immediately resumed his travels, entrusting Orsan to the first prioress, Agnes de Châteaumeillant, under the administration of the Archbishop of Bourges. The Priory prospered soon after being built, its church was completed in 1113. The lords of the region took the Priory under their protection. In competition with other monasteries in the region, Orsan soon found itself on trial.
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Sometime afterwards, he founded the Augustinian nunnery on Iona. The precise foundation date of the Benedictine and Augustinian houses are unknown. According to the Book of Clanranald, Bethóc was a "black nun", while the History of the MacDonalds states that she was prioress of Iona. That Bethóc was associated with Iona, as claimed by these clan-traditions, is corroborated by an inscribed stone on Iona.
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In about 1695, Martin Martin described the Gaelic inscription to have read "Behag nijn Sorle vic Ilvrid priorissa" (which translates as "Prioress Bethóc, daughter of Somairle, son of Gilla Brigte").Sellar 1966: p. 129. The transcription was still legible in the 19th century. According to Bill Lawson, an entry in the Red Book of Clanranald reads, Beathog inghen Shomhuirle do bhi na mnaoi riagalta & na cailligh duibh.
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Nunburnholme Priory was a priory of Benedictine nuns in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded during the reign of Henry II of England by an ancestor of Robert de Merlay, lord of Morpeth. Except for its demesne, it possessed only little property in its surroundings. In 1313 the prioress claimed the monastery of Seton in Coupland as a cell of Nunburnholme.
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When Raymond finishes his story, Lorenzo agrees to help him elope with Agnes. He acquires a papal bull, releasing Agnes from her vows as a nun so that she may marry Raymond. However, when he shows it to the Prioress, she tells Lorenzo that Agnes died several days before. Lorenzo does not believe it, but after two months, there is no other word concerning Agnes.
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Another relative, daughter of Robert and Mary Wharton Brent, Mother Mary Margaret Brent (1731-1784) became a nun in 1778 and Prioress of the English Carmelite convent at Antwerp. Shortly after her death, four nuns (3 from Charles County Maryland) came from Europe to Port Tobacco, Maryland (part of Margaret Brent's estate in 1640) and established their religious order in America. French at pp. 83-84.
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By May, however, the dissolution was complete, and in July the king's grants included several relating to White Ladies. A pension of £5 went to the prioress, Margaret Sandford (rendered as Stamford), while the site went to William Skeffington (also Skevington) of Wolverhampton and a number of the smaller estates were leased.Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, volume 13, part 1, p. 561-89, nos.
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She accepted this without resentment and, after the accuser had died, she was rehabilitated while asking for forgiveness. She was re-elected as prioress on 25 June 1624 and served until 1627. She was also a close friend to Saint Teresa of Avila and the two confided in each other. Her health continued to decline and she died on 13 September 1640 at 10:00am.
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During this time she also appeared as a guest artist with other opera houses in Europe. In 1961 and 1962 she sang Pamina at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. She returned there in 1969 to sing the Old Prioress in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites; a role she performed that same year from a wheelchair at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
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Retrieved 9 May 2020. Stan Jarvis relates that Osyth was the daughter of the great Frithewald, King of the East Saxons. She grew up in the Christian faith and became prioress of a nunnery founded by her father in the tiny settlement of Chich. In the autumn of AD 653 a band of Danish raiders came up the creek in their boats and went on the rampage.
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Sister Joan D. Chittister, (born April 26, 1936),The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, Volume 2, edited by George Thomas Kurian, James D. Smith III, Scarecrow Press, 2010, p.252. is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, author, and speaker. She has served as Benedictine prioress and Benedictine federation president, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.
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326 (Internet Archive).) The fee of Flixton was now held by the priory in frankalmoin in three parts, and the advowson of Helmingham church from Cecily (wife of Robert de Ufford, and mother of Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk). Emma de Welholm was admitted prioress in 1301 and occurs until 1328.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', note 21, citing Norwich Episcopal register, vol. i, fol. 7.
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In August 1514 Bishop Nykke found the nuns of Flixton in rebellious mood. There were now eight nuns, of whom only Alicia Laxfield might remember the visitation of 1493. Isabella Asshe stated that for three days a week they were fed only on bread and cheese, and the rule of silence was not observed. The prioress, Margaret Punder, said that some of the sisters were not obedient.
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Easebourne Priory was a priory in Easebourne, West Sussex, England. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built as an Augustinian nunnery for a prioress and ten nuns. It was founded before 1238 by the de Bohun family of St. Ann's Hill in nearby Midhurst, probably by John de Bohun who fought at Crecy. It may have been refounded in the 15th century and became Benedictine.
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Upon dissolution, the estate was given to Henry Thompson. Walter Calverley married into the Thompson family in 1709 and constructed Esholt Hall on the site of the Nunnery in Queen Anne style. In 1303, the Prioress, Juliana De La Wodehall, tendered her resignation to the bishop over a scandal in which one of the nuns got pregnant. Despite this, the bishop refused to accept her resignation.
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Syningthwaite Priory was a priory in West Yorkshire, England. Syningthwaite is the site of the Cistercian convent of St Mary, founded c1160 by Bertram Haget and suppressed in 1535, having been heavily in debt in the early C16. At the Dissolution there were 9 nuns, the prioress, 8 servants and other labourers. The priory site is enclosed by a moat and includes a Chapel Garth.
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Brummers was reproached with a too intimate interaction with Father Hesius and the convent's forest manager as well as with her careless management of the convent's possessions. In 1584 the first Lutheran pastor is recorded for the Neuenwalde parish. Since the preachers were to be appointed in consensus with the prioress, the employment of a Lutheran pastor indicates the conversion of most nuns to Lutheranism too.
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Sometime before the end of the twelfth century,Power (2013) p. 64. or else early in the thirteenth century after the foundation of the Benedictine monastery, an Augustinian nunnery was established just south of the site.Power (2005) pp. 30–31. The Book of Clanranald reveals that Ragnall was traditionally regarded as its founder, and states his sister, Bethóc, was remembered as a prioress there.Fisher (2005) pp.
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Sopwell Priory (also known as Sopwell Nunnery) was built c. 1140 in Hertfordshire, England by the Benedictine abbot of St Albans Abbey, Geoffrey de Gorham. It was founded as the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell and was a cell of St Albans Abbey. Juliana Berners, a prioress during the 15th century, is believed to be the author of the Boke of St Albans published in 1486.
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As such, the price for the privilege of Iona's papal protection appears to have been the adoption of the Benedictine Rule, and the supersession of the island's centuries-old institution of St Columba.Beuermann (2012) p. 6. The remains of Iona Nunnery, an Augustinian religious that may been built before the turn of the thirteenth century. Dubgall's sister, Bethóc appears to have been its first prioress.
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Finally, even her mother relented and agreed that Yolanda should return to Marienthal. Entering a life of prayer and charity, Yolanda developed in her monastic life through the years, and was eventually elected the monastery's prioress in 1258. She remained there until her death 25 years later in 1283. Her mother also joined the monastery after the death of her husband during a crusade (1252).
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She is co-convenor of the Movement Against Tyranny. She has served as president of Saint Scholastica’s College for six years and dean for 18 years, prioress of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Manila Priory, and national chairperson of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines. She also co-founded GABRIELA, federation of women's organizations and served as its national chairperson for 18 years.
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The family emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1724, settling in Germantown. Sauer worked as a tailor before moving in 1726 to Lancaster where he had a farm. In 1731, Sower's wife, Maria Christina, joined Johann Conrad Beissel's Seventh Day Baptist community at Ephrata, the Ephrata Cloister. She was known in Ephrata as "Sister Marcella," and eventually became sub-prioress of the community, which was dedicated to celibacy.
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The rectors' task did not take long, and although they were equivocal regarding the precise length of the vacancy, they reported that the appointment was now the archbishop's responsibility on account of the lapse of time. Three days later, the Archbishop—probably on the recommendation of his commission—appointed Emma de Ebor' as prioress, believing her the best- qualified candidate from among the nuns.
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In this capacity, she coordinated a number of events, including the Gethsemani Encounters and Benedict's Dharma Conference. In 1995 she traveled to India and Tibet on the 6th Spiritual Exchange Program. A former Prioress and current member of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana, which she entered in 1961, Funk directs the School of Lectio Divina at the adjacent Benedict Inn.
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Her Latin Vita was apparently written by a monk of St Alban's Abbey. This hagiography is considered to be one of the most realistic known. Some parts still follow the typical route of hagiographies – a vow of chastity, overcoming all obstacles including marriage, and even being an anchoress – but others pull away from the norm. Christina is shown as having power as Prioress of St Albans.
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The priory of King's Langley was refounded by Philip and Mary in June 1557 as a house of Dominican sisters, at the request, and for the benefit of seven nuns, formerly at Ingress Abbey, Dartford, Kent. The prioress and convent were declared a corporate body, having perpetual succession and power to acquire property and to sue and be sued at law. They were given the house and site of the late friary, the land called 'le Courte Wike' in King's Langley which had belonged to the priory, and a house and buildings within 'the old manor' lying near the pales of the royal park. On 8 September 1558 the king and queen granted to the Prioress and convent of Langley the reversion of certain tenements in Dartford, formerly demesne lands of the nuns of that place, and until the expiration of the lease, the rent of £30 7s. 7d.
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She did not formally resign the office and no successor could be elected or appointed until she returned and resigned or was expelled from the community. However, on 19 September 1312, Maud de Batheley was confirmed as prioress but within four days of her appointment, the archbishop wrote to inform her that de Berghby had come to him in the spirit of humility, and he had absolved her and lifted the excommunication she had incurred by leaving the cloister. The archbishop instructed Prioress Maud to receive Isabella back, but that she was to take the last place in the community in the Chapter, in choir for the Divine Office and in the refectory, and she was not to leave the cloister. On 18 September 1315, Archbishop Greenfield visited Arthington and issued a series of injunctions to the nuns: The archbishop repeated these directives on a later visit.
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C 244-2 / 2009, Franc Card. Rodé, CM to Sister Margaret Ormond, OP, Prioress, Dominican Sisters of Peace, 2 March 2010. In that document, Dominican Sisters of Peace affirm their identity as "a religious institute of Dominican women called to preach the liberating truth of the Word of God," and dedicated to a life that integrates "contemplation, study, common life, and ministry."Constitutions, Dominican Sisters of Peace, #1 and #3.
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After the dissolution of the monastic community, its lands were seized by the Crown. In 1609 they were leased to the Lord of Man."Baronial Lands" Some of the former lands of the priory became a private estate known as the Nunnery, which was occupied by the descendants of Calcot and his wife, the last prioress. By the 18th century, an inn had been established on the site.
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Alvingham Priory was a Gilbertine priory in St. Mary, Alvingham, Lincolnshire, England. The Priory, established between 1148 and 1154, was a "double house", where religious of both sexes lived in two separate monasteries. They did not commonly communicate with one another, and there was an internal wall dividing their priory church. The superior of every Gilbertine house was the prioress, the prior being really an official of her house.
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More certain is a receipt of 28 September 1394 by which Petronilla, named as prioress of the Black Nunnery of Brewood, acknowledged a gift of £100 from Thomas Gech to establish a chantry for Thomas de Brompton, formerly lord of Church Eaton, and his forebears. It is possible that Gech had married Brompton’s widow, Isabella, but this is disputed.Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 4, part 2, p. 15, footnote.
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She knew St. Dominic personally. She used her family's influence to assist his reforms, urged her prioress to support his cause, and according to tradition, was the first to receive the Dominican habit. Two years later, in 1223 or 1224, she and three other nuns, including Blessed Diana d'Andalò and Blessed Amata, were sent to Bologna to found a new monastery, St. Agnes, where she remained until her death.Butler, Alban (1998).
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Anna Paulsdotter (died 9 October 1500), was a Swedish Bridgettine nun. She was the abbess of Vadstena Abbey from 1486 until 1496. Anna Paulsdotter was accepted to the order in 1456, became the prioress of the nun's part of the abbey in 1473 and the abbess of the whole double monastery in 1486. In June 1487, she sent an envoy to Rome to apply for the canonization of Catherine of Vadstena.
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Place: England. Time: April, 1387.The synopsis is taken from Leo Melitz, The Opera Goer's Complete Guide, 1921 version. The story has to do with the merry schemes of the Wife of Bath, who has fallen in love with Chaucer who in his turn loves the Prioress, and of her winning of a bet to gain possession of a certain brooch which carries with it Chaucer's promise of marriage.
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The first woman to receive a doctorate degree in the modern era was Elena Cornaro Piscopia in 1678 at the University of Padua. Disregarding wealth and an advantageous offer of marriage, she entered during the same year the convent of Sainte-Praxède at Avignon. In 1609 she received the habit of the order, and on 20 June 1610 took the vows. On three occasions she was named prioress.
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Later, Ambrosio is visited by nuns, including Agnes, for confession. When Agnes confesses that she is pregnant with Raymond's child, Ambrosio turns her over to the Prioress of her abbey for punishment. Ambrosio's closest friend among the monks reveals that he is a woman named Matilda, who disguised herself to be near Ambrosio. While picking a rose for her, Ambrosio is bitten by a serpent and falls deathly ill.
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Ambrosio accepts, without, he believes, selling himself to the devil. To try to find Agnes, Raymond's servant disguises himself as a beggar and goes to the convent. As he leaves, Mother St. Ursula gives him a basket of gifts, concealing a note that tells Raymond to have the cardinal arrest both Mother St. Ursula and the Prioress for Agnes's murder. Ambrosio uses the magic bough to enter Antonia's bedroom.
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Eyton, volume 4, p.137. In 1256 William de Ercall, and Prioress Agnes engaged in a complicated series of lawsuits, including a fine of lands, to transfer to the convent a very small rent (a ninth of the sheaves on three carucates of land) and small piece of land for a weir.Eyton, volume 9, p. 85-6. This involved settling any competing claim that might come from Wombridge Priory.
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On 9 April 1313 Euphemia took the veil and entered the Dominican monastery of the Holy Spirit in Racibórz. During her religious life, she was elected Prioress twice, in 1341 and during 1358–1359. Documents showed her as a person who dutifully cared for increasing the monastery holdings. In 1313, she acquired the villages of Proszowiec, Markowice, Lyski, Pogrzebień and Lubomia from her brother, Duke Leszek of Racibórz.
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Historic Scotland, Edinburgh. View of the Abbey remains in the late 19th century, showing the Church and claustral buildings as roofless ruins. The Iona Nunnery, a foundation of the Augustinian Order (one of only two in Scotland - the other is in Perth), was established south of the abbey buildings. Graves of some of the early nuns remain, including that of a remarkable prioress, Anna Maclean, who died in 1543.
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Prioress Gerdruth von Campe informed Provost Franz Marschalck, then residing in safe Bremen out of reach for the Leaguist occupants and the Restitution Commission, who on 8/18 October 1629O.S./N.S. personally delivered the demanded information to the Commission then residing in Verden upon Aller. On 19/29 NovemberO.S./N.S. the Commission's subdelegates, Jacob Brummer and Wilhelm Schröder, arrived at Himmelpforten Convent in order to sight the situation there.
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Barba made her initial profession on 17 April 1921 and later made her perpetual profession on 23 April 1924. In 1924 her period of formation came to a close and she was elected as the prioress of the convent on 10 November;"Bl. Maria Candida of the Eucharist OCD", Order of Crmelites she held this position until 1947 and was reconfirmed in that position on five separate occasions.
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Ordnance Survey: Getamap The soil is a heavy clay on gault which, coupled with the terrain, made drainage difficult. Eastern Brook flows towards Caxton and is a tributary of the Bourn Brook. Eltisley Wood had reached its modern state by the early 19th century; a small wood at Papley Grove, in the north of the parish, is presumably what is left of the woodland that belonged to the prioress of Hinchingbrooke.
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Her father, Ettore Vernazza, was a patrician, founder of several hospitals for the sick poor in Genoa, Rome, and Naples. Her godmother was Catherine Fieschi-Adorno, known as Catherine of Genoa. At the early age of 13, Tommasina entered the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and became a canoness regular, taking the name of Battistina. She filled at various times the office of treasurer, novice-mistress, and prioress.
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This last purchase was connected to his sister-in-law, who had been the last Prioress at Wilberfoss. He also acquired Acomb Grange on the outskirts of the village of Acomb near York for his family home. The acquisition was a reversion of lease following the dissolution of the Hospital of St Leonard on those lands and in the city of York. He died in July 1556 in York.
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The Communität Christusbruderschaft Selbitz (CCB) (Community of the Christ- Brotherhood Selbitz) is a mixed Religious Order in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in Germany. The Community was founded in 1948 by pastor Walter Hümmer (1909-1972) and his wife Hanna Hümmer (1910 - 1977) in Schwarzenbach an der Saale. The Community lives according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Order is led by prioress and prior.
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The Landi Chapel, commissioned by the prioress Vittoria Landi, is the first chapel on the left. It was decorated by Borromini, and the altarpiece depicts The Holy Trinity with Saint Augustine and Saint Monica by Cavaliere d'Arpino .Melchiorri, page 356. The Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the second on the left, contains works attributed to Carlo Maderno: a tabernacle in polychrome marble and gilt bronze and the alabaster statues.
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Prioress Helen was in charge by 1466, when she resigned and Margery Artis was confirmed as her successor.Willis, An History of the Mitred Abbies, II, p. 223. Page cites Norwich Cathedral Registers, XI.155. In 1473 John Brygham, a chaplain associated with the nearby College at Mettingham, Suffolk, since at least 1450,Appointment of Attorneys, 4 October 1450: Sir Nicholas Bacon Collection, University of Chicago, Ms. 4483, Search term: Brygham.
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The prioress and officials were to render accounts at least annually to the convent. Separate food rations had proved uneconomic and all the nuns were to eat together in the prioress's hall. Except in case of sickness, the only fire was to be in the building housing the Gesthall or infirmary. Monastic property could not to be granted away without the bishop's permission and any unauthorised grants were invalid.
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Neuenwalde serfs evaded Catholic Holy Masses and attended Lutheran services in churches outside their parish, they further refused performing tithe and serjeanty. In 1533 Christopher the Spendthrift approved the plan of Prioress Anna Willers to construct a post mill in Altenwalde and to thirl the convent's feudal tenant farmers from the heath villages to that mill. In 1535 the Altenwalde mill, also called Klostermühle, was erected (demolished in 1913).
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191–232, here p. 227. Conventuals were allowed to temporarily leave the convent, e.g. for travels, only with a permit of the prioress. An absence longer than two months entailed a reduction of the maintenance.Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, „Einige Nachrichten von den ehemaligen Klöstern im Herzogthum Bremen“, in: Neues vaterländisches Archiv oder Beiträge zur allseitigen Kenntniß des Königreichs Hannover und des Herzogthums Braunschweig, Lunenburg: Herold & Wahlstab, 1822–1832, vol.
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In 1756 Maria Amalia MarschalkenMarschalken still shows the then traditional local female ending ...en of family names. paid Rtlr 300 for the installation of another lodging for herself as additional conventual (thus 12). In 1758 Margaretha von Düring, sister of Johann Christian von Düring, president of the Knighthood, lived in the Düringsches Haus. A donation of Rtlr 400 in 1764 allowed hosting one more conventual (thus 13, including the prioress).
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Father Neale died in 1823 and was buried in the graveyard of the monastery by order of Mother Clare Joseph, one of the nuns brought by him from Europe. She became prioress in 1800, and remained so until her death on March 27, 1830. The monastery moved to Baltimore in September 1831, at which time Father Neale's remains were relocated to the new location, along with those of ten nuns.
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After seven years of fervent existence, scandals began to mar the image of a few of the Spanish beatas who were admitted at the start of the eighteenth century. They resented authority and constant admonitions of Mother Francisca, the prioress. Defying the rules of the beaterio, they, including a certain Sor Jacinta, goddaughter of Fray Juan de Sto. Domingo, OP, the co-founder, began to live separately in private homes.
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They went to their death singing "hymns of praise"; their final song was Psalm 117, "Laudate Dominum". Their prioress, Mother Teresa of St. Augustine, was the last to die. Ten days after their martyrdom, Maximilien Robespierre was executed himself, ending the Reign of Terror. The Martyrs of Compiègne might have "helped bring about the end to the horrors of the revolution" and hastened the end of the Reign of Terror.
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Only the year before Joan of Leeds' escape Melton had instructed the priory that "the frequent access of men and women to the house was not to be allowed, lest evil or scandal should arise". Problems continued at Clementhorpe, however; in 1318, Melton rebuked the priory for failing to enforce appropriate silence in the cloister, and, following further issues with troublesome nuns, de Methelay resigned as Prioress in 1324.
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After the war, they were asked to return at the invitation of Bishop Alfredo Verzosa, then Bishop of Lipa to run a school. After much consultation, the Mother Prioress and her councilors decided to accept the offer. Sister Superior Agnella Mayer, OSB, was asked to found the school with the help of Sister Caridad Barrion, OSB, and Sister Liboria Kampinan, OSB. The school was first named St. Martin's Academy.
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Syon was at this time the richest nunnery in England. When the dissolution process began in 1536, as one of the larger abbeys, Syon was not immediately affected, but there was some impact as the abbess took in the prioress and two nuns displaced from a small Benedictine house in Somerset.Chandler, J 2003 pp. 92-94 Syon Abbey was suppressed and dissolved on 25 November 1539 by Henry VIII.
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Blessed Beatrice of Nazareth or in Dutch Beatrijs van Nazareth (c. 1200 - 1268) was a Flemish Cistercian nun. She was the first prose writer using an early Dutch language, a mystic, and the author of the notable Dutch prose dissertation known as the Seven Ways of Holy Love. She was also the first prioress of the Abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth in Nazareth near Lier in Brabant.
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Historians consider it likely it was behaviour such as was found at Littlemore that encouraged Cardinal Wolsey's suppression of it, and a number of houses, in an attempt to improve the image of the church in England during the early 1520s. Wells, still acting prioress at its closure, received a life pension; the house became a farmstead and was gradually pulled down. One original building remained in the 21st century.
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The house was surrendered under the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act, as its income was less than £200 a year, and there may not have been by this time as many as twelve nuns. The exact date of the surrender is not known, but it must have been some time before 10 February 1537, when the prioress, Joan Zouche, received for the first time her pension of 20 marks.
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Dawtry "Benedictine Revival" Studies in Church History 18 p. 91 He also helped found the Cistercian Abbey of Fountains, by giving the site to monks who had been expelled from the Abbey of St. Mary's, York.Burton Monastic and Religious Orders p. 70 Thurstan helped the hermitess Christina of Markyate at several points in her career, and tried to persuade her to become the first prioress of his foundation of St. Clement's.
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Many mistakenly have called Earl Aubrey's third wife Lucia, rather than Agnes. This mistake is based on a misreading of a single document associated with a religious house at Hedingham, Essex. A woman named Lucia was the first prioress at Castle Hedingham Priory. On her death in the early thirteenth century, an illustrated mortuary or 'bede' roll was carried to many religious houses requesting prayers for her soul.
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Henry the Navigator; the story of a great prince and his times. New York: Hytchinson & Co, 1945, 9.) Their son Afonso was ten when Philippa and John married. Philippa allowed Afonso and his sister Beatrice to be raised in the Portuguese court (the third child, Branca, died in infancy). Their mother left the court at Philippa's command to live in a convent, and under Philippa's patronage, she became the Prioress.
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She was patron of the Oetenbach nunnery, and Wernher's sister, Cecilia von Homberg became the prioress there. Wernher inherited territories that today form the northern part of the canton of Schwyz. Beginning in 1302, king Albert I of Germany laid claim to these territories, prompting Wernher to enter a pact with the people of Schwyz. In 1303, Wernher sold Homberg castle and the city of Liestal to the bishop of Basel.
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When Pisa took ill, the nuns refused to visit her, even though she continually asked for them. Two days before her death, she asked the prioress to look after the nuns who had been so contrary to her, making excuses for their behavior. Pisa was as notable as a mystic as she was for her practical energy and ability. After her death her cause for canonization was begun.
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Emilia Bicchieri (3 May 1238 – 3 May 1314) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Preachers. Bicchieri – born to a patrician – is best known for the construction of a Dominican convent in her hometown of Vercelli where she served as prioress. Her beatification came in 1769 after Pope Clement XIV issued formal ratification to the late religious' longstanding local 'cultus' – or popular devotion and worship.
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One was also founded at Aravaca in Madrid in 1958 and at La Aldehuela in Madrid in 1961 where she was elected as the prioress and lived there until her death. She also founded a convent in Kottayam in India in 1933. In 1972 she founded the "Association of Saint Teresa". She was confined to her bed for rest after suffering from a bout of pneumonia on Good Friday in 1967.
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Marie entered the convent of Poissy on 8 September 1397, taking her vows as a nun on 26 May 1408. She was the only one of the children that had a religious life; the rest of her surviving siblings were married off. At the time Marie entered the convent the prioress was her great-aunt, Marie of Bourbon, who was the sister of the younger Marie's paternal grandmother, Joanna of Bourbon.
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In the course of the Reformation Denmark became officially a Lutheran kingdom in October 1536. All religious houses and their many acquired income properties reverted to the crown. The entire archive of the priory was lost except for a few letters regarding the disposition of the priory near the time of the Reformation. The last letter of the prioress, dated 1537, giving up the priory is found among them.
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Robert de Esseby founded a priory of Cistercian nuns at Lower Catesby in about 1175. In the 1230s Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, committed his sisters Margaret and Alice to be nuns at the priory. Edmund was canonized in 1247, Margaret was elected prioress in 1245 and she served until her death in 1257. In 1267 William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick died and his heart was buried at Catesby Priory.
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Effigy of King John, from his tomb in Worcester Cathedral White Ladies benefited considerably from royal generosity in the reign of John. He visited Brewood on at least three occasions and it was possibly on one of these that he gave the priory a weir called Withlakeswere on the River Severn near Bridgnorth,Eyton, volume 1, p. 361. which would create fishing rights. This was later rented out to a local man, Henry FitzRobert, half by Prioress Alditha in 1225 at 5 shillings, and the other half subsequently by Prioress Cecilia, also at 5 shillings. White Ladies must have held 12 bovates of land at Calverton in Nottinghamshire from early in its history but in 1212 a charter of King John removed all secular demands and obligations stemming from it. Issued during the Interdict, this demonstration of the king's piety was witnessed by a group of notables, headed by a favourite, William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel.
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No ISBN. The subdelegates found the abbey church untouched with all its furnishings, such as altars, religious paintings, pews, paraments, chasubles and other liturgical devices.Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 33\. No ISBN. They ordered the prioress to deliver all liturgical devices which they appropriated in favour of the Restitution Commission and brought them to Stade. The prioress made the men aware of the fact that the convent had more liturgical devices stored in a house in Stade.Silvia Schulz- Hauschildt, Himmelpforten – Eine Chronik, Gemeinde Himmelpforten municipality (ed.), Stade: Hansa-Druck Stelzer, 1990, p. 56\. No ISBN. On 22 November/ 2 December 1629O.S./N.S. all the seized liturgical devices from Himmelpforten and in Stade were handed over to the Jesuit Father Matthias Kalkhoven, and disappeared with the Jesuits in April 1632.Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten.
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It was first recorded in 1122 as an institution for nine nuns and a prioress - around the time of its Dissolution the priory's own tradition was that it had been founded by Maurice or Richard de Belmeis I, though the antiquarian John Leland believed it had been a co-foundation by William of London and William Roscelin. It was the burial place of some of the Earls of Hereford and of Essex as well as of a daughter of William, Earl of Henault. Initially held by Geoffrey, Earl of Essex, the lands on which the priory stood had shifted to the prior and canons of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate by 1292. It achieved notoriety in the Geoffrey Chaucer's description of the Nun Prioress in the General Prologue to his Canterbury Tales: > : Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse, : That of hir smylyng was ful symple > and coy; : Hire gretteste ooth was but by seinte loy; : And she was cleped > madame eglentyne.
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She was assisted by a prioress with the title dekanesse. In 1810 the office of abbey was abolished, and the dean became head of the foundation. The activities of the foundation changed after the end of World War II. In 1976, the foundation's bylaws were revised so that no more new ladies of the diocese were to be enrolled, but noble widows who were already registered could get free housing in the castle.
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The new congregation was formally established on 5 October 1918 at the Convent of Our Lady of the Patronage in Lima. Nicol was elected as the first Prioress General of the congregation, and served in that office the rest of her life. She also served as the Mistress of novices, training the candidates to the congregation at their novitiate in Spain. During her generalship, she led her Sisters to establish themselves in other countries.
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Site of Nuncotham Priory Nuncotham Priory was a priory of Cistercian nuns in Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, England. The priory of Nuncotham in Brocklesby parish was founded by Alan de Moncels around 1150. Throughout its history the Bishops complained that the nuns lived a little too freely. Joan Thompson, the last prioress, had a habit of keeping her own family at the convents expense, and the sisters had a habit of going out to visit friends.
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Legbourne Priory was a priory in the village of Legbourne, Lincolnshire, England. Founded by Robert Fitz Gilbert around 1150, the priory was for the nuns of Keddington (sometimes Hallington). The earliest visitation that survives is from 1440 when Bishop Alnwick reported a few irregularities which needed correction, but found most fault with the Prioress. She had been too fond of entertaining her own relations, and partly supported them with revenue from the priory.
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In 1575, John III granted the abbey the right to receive novices without restriction again, and his Catholic Queen, Catherine Jagellon, made donations to it and forged contacts between the abbey and Rome. The Jesuit Antonio Possevino, as Papal Legate, reformed it in 1580. At this occasion, the abbess and the prioress were made to swear the Tridentine Oath of 1564 and the nuns were made to take their vows a second time.
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Neal died at her home in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 8, 2010, from lung cancer. She was 84 years old. She had become a Catholic four months before she diedMe and Miss Neal, The Globe and Mail, August 13, 2010. and was buried in the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, where the actress Dolores Hart, her friend since the early 1960s, had become a nun and ultimately prioress.
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The church was thus sometimes considered a chapelry of the church at Clent and Herbert, the vicar of Clent, claimed the right to present a successor. The prioress successfully maintained that the king had acquired the advowson when he confiscated the manor and had handed over this potentially valuable asset to Black Ladies, although it was not mentioned in the charter of 1200. The priory seems to have retained the advowson thereafter.
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The tale is related to various so-called blood libel stories common at the time. One likely influence for the tale was the infamous 1255 murder of a boy in Lincoln who became known as Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln. Chaucer's attitude toward the tale is less clear. The Prioress' French accent is a sign of social climbing, yet her speech is modelled after the Stratford-at-Bow dialect, not the more desirable Parisian French.
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Henry IV (1399–1413) issued the priory with charters confirming payment to the priory of the annual payment of 100 shillings from the town of Nottingham. Charters also granted them 27 acres of land (with tenements and common pasture) in the Peak forest. During the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509) the Abbott of Burton Abbey lodged a complaint at the Chancery Court against the Prioress of King's Mead, Isabel de Stanley.
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The priory was home to a convent of Benedictine Nuns: it was dedicated to "St. Mary de Pratis" and was under the control of Darley Abbey, its parent house. The first Prioress appears to be named Emma; shortly after the Nunnery's foundation a warden was appointed, the first of which was William de Bussel. Part of the priory's income was five pounds paid every year from Nottingham farm rents on the orders of Henry III.
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In 1556 the abbey was organized into a Lutheran house of secular canonesses for the use of unmarried noblewomen.Danish: adelige jomfrukloster In August of that year King Christian III visited Maribo to witness the induction of a young woman into the Lutheran abbey. Lady Mette Marsvinsdatter was named abbess and given control over the vast estates which funded the community once again. Lady Drude Pogvisk was named prioress, Lady Mette's second in command.
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The Protestant Reformation in Denmark brought an end to the abbey at Slangerup. In 1529 the estate was given to Martin Bussert, who lost it during the Count's Feud. All religious houses were closed and became Crown property in 1536 when Denmark accepted the Smalcald Articles and officially became a Lutheran realm. Monasteries including Slangerup Abbey were secularized, with the nuns allowed to live in the former monasteries under the supervision of a secular prioress.
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The church was founded by Anne of Austria, Queen Consort of Louis XIII, in 1621. Anne, a devout Roman Catholic and counter-reformationist, had visited a priory in the deep valley of the Bièvre river and had become a friend of the prioress, Marguerite de Veny d'Arbouse. Anne suggested that an abbey be established with a suitable church. Construction began in 1634 on land given by the crown, the former Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon.
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However, the register of Richard Swinefield, a 14th-century Bishop of Hereford, clearly refers to transferring rights to prioressse et conventui albarum monialium sancti Leonardi de Brewod, Coventrensis et Lichefeldensis diocesis, ordinis sancti Augustini:Registrum Ricardi de Swinfield, p. 458. "the prioress and convent of St Leonard of Brewood, (in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield,) of the Order of St Augustine."Weaver and Gilyard-Beer, p. 35. Leland's mistake led William DugdaleDugdale p. 730.
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As it involved an alienation in mortmain, the transfer required royal approval, and this could only be secured through payment of a fine. Edward II's licence was issued on 6 August, permitting the transfer of a messuage and half a virgate of land at Bold, in addition to the advowson.Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1307–1313, p. 179. This was probably to provide a dowry for Alice de Harley, who later became prioress.
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But thanks to the perseverance of the founder and also to the help of some religious (like his friend Antonio María Claret) they were able to get ahead. Soon he had the invaluable collaboration of a young teacher, Rosa Santaeugenia (1831-1889), who was the first Prioress General of the CongregationGómez García, Vito T. (2009). El padre Coll, dominico: Francisco Coll y Guitart, santo fundador de las Dominicas de la Anunciata. EDIBESA, Madrid, p. 331.
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Sketch of Juliana Berners, author of the earliest essay on recreational fishing. The earliest English essay on recreational fishing was published in 1496, shortly after the invention of the printing press. The authorship of this was attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, the prioress of the Benedictine Sopwell Nunnery. The essay was titled Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle,Berners, Dame Juliana (1496) A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle (transcription by Risa S. Bear).
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In 1954 she entered the Benedictine community in Minster Abbey, Kent, taking Concordia as her name, and was professed on 22 August 1955. She continued to sculpt, entering a piece for the Manchester Vocations Exhibition in 1959, which led to numerous commissions for sculptures in the following 40 years. Her work can now be seen in Cathedrals and churches across the world. She was Prioress of the Minster Abbey community 1984-1999.
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Robin Hood's grave In the 12th century, the Cistercians built Kirklees Priory. It is connected to the legend of Robin Hood as it is said to be his final resting place. In the folklore song Geste it is said that Robin Hood was the nephew of the prioress, who sheltered him when he was fleeing from the Sheriff of Nottingham. She drained his blood (as was a common medicinal practice in those days).
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J. Caley (ed.), Valor Ecclesiasticus temp. Henr. VIII: Auctoritate Regia Institutus (Commissioners, 1817), III, p. 446 (Google). Elizabeth Wright as prioress surrendered the house on 4 February 1536–37.Page, 'Priory of Flixton', citing '510. Suppressed Monasteries', in 'Henry VIII: February 1537, 21-25', in J. Gairdner (ed.), Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Vol. 12 Part 1: January–May 1537 (London, 1890), p. 239 (British History Online, accessed 22 July 2018).
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Mathews (sometimes spelled "Matthews") was born to a Catholic family in the British colony of Maryland. She was one of seven siblings, one of whom was the priest and educator William Matthews. In 1754 she went to Europe to join the English-speaking Discalced Carmelites in Hoogstraet in the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium). She joined the order on December 3, 1755 and was elected prioress of their convent on April 13, 1774.
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L.S. Woodger, 'Strange, Sir John (1347–1417) of Hunstanton, Norfolk, and Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk', in J.S. Roskell, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1993), History of Parliament Online. Alice Corbet, installed in 1411, was succeeded as prioress in 1416 by Katherine Ancell.'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey' (V.C.H.), citing Norwich Episcopal Registers, vii, 43, and Tanner Manuscripts, Norwich.
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Maria Crocifissa Cosulich () (20 September 1852 – 29 September 1922) was a Catholic nun who was part of the community of Sisters of the Sacred Heart. She was the founder of the Catholic order of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the only order indigenous to the Archdiocese of Rijeka in Croatia, and the first prioress of the order. Her beatification began in 2008 and her confirmation process started in 2013.
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Now she had entered that desert. Though she was now reunited with Marie and Pauline, from the first day she began her struggle to win and keep her distance from her sisters. Right at the start Marie de Gonzague, the prioress, had turned the postulant Thérèse over to her eldest sister Marie, who was to teach her to follow the Divine Office. Later she appointed Thérèse assistant to Pauline in the refectory.
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He conferred the right to elect their own prioress and decreed that their flocks and herds were to be free of tithes. However, the nuns seems to have struggled financially, and they often solicited small gifts of cash from notables and even from kings. For example, in 1241 Henry III sent a gift of one mark so that they could redeem their pawned chalice. Even more telling was an incident of 1286.
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Seacourt had a parish church by 1200, when Robert de Seacourt (or Seckworth), lord of the manor, granted it to the prioress of the Benedictine Studley Priory, Oxfordshire. According to a 13th-century charter Seacourt parish church was dedicated to Saint Mary. In 1439 it was reported that the church building had collapsed. In the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 Studley Priory surrendered its lands to the Crown, which sold them in 1540.
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Based on her last name, scholars suggest that she was either the daughter of the courtier Sir James Berners or wife to the lord of the manor of Julians Barnes. Whatever family she came from, it is likely that she was high-born and well-educated. It is generally believed that she entered the monastic life and became the prioress of Sopwell Nunnery near St Albans. How and when she joined the nunnery is unknown.
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The sole remaining monastic building of Littlemore Priory, seen in 2009 when operating as the public house The Priory and...?; archaeologist Wiliam Pantin suggests this was part of the eastern range of the priory's cloister. The Littlemore Priory scandals took place between 1517 and 1518. They involved accusations of sexual immorality and sometimes brutal violence among the Benedictine nuns and their prioress at St Nicholas' Priory in Littlemore (thus "Littlemore Priory"), in Oxfordshire, England.
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The priory was founded around 1150 by Emma, daughter of Waldef the thegn of Hepple. In the 15th century an investigation was conducted by the Bishop of Durham as a result of some misbehaviour by members of the community. On 29 December 1540, the prioress Jane Lawson surrendered the house to agents of the King, and the priory was presumably dissolved at around that time. The house was acquired by her brother, James Lawson.
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The nunnery was founded by Eva Fitzharding, who endowed it with lands in Southmead and became its first prioress. Her ancestry is not known. She was the widow of Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy burgess of Bristol who had risen to become the Lord of Berkeley. He had founded St Augustine's Abbey, which later became Bristol Cathedral, and he too ended his days as a canon of the religious house he had founded.
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In 1333 William de Broklesby, clerk, gave two ploughlands and houses in Nawton and other places to William son of Richard de Nawton, with the remainder to John de Nawton and his heirs. Thomas Nawton of Eddlethorpe, in 1515, left Elizabeth Nawton, his sister, Prioress of Neasham, the properties of Nawton and Nawtondale. He died in 1519 and left a son and heir Henry. Henry died about 1547 with the manor being seised from him.
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Abbey Farm, said to be on the site of Ickleton Priory The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 was passed to dissolve England's lesser religious houses, the first phase of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Under the Act a Valor Ecclesiasticus was made, which valued Ickleton Priory at £71 9s d. In 1536 the priory was suppressed and surrendered its assets to the Crown. The last prioress, Joan Ashwell, was granted a pension of £8.
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Over the course of her tenure in the convent, she ascended to the rank of prioress, and grew to be admired by her sisters for her saintly lifestyle and her "contemplative prayer." She was also seen as a protective spirit in the cloister, and it was believed that her prayers saved Carmelite nuns in Lviv from the Cossacks invasion of April 16, 1649. Marchocka died on April 19, 1652 in Warsaw, Poland.
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The college traces its history to the establishment of the congregation Beaterio de Santa Catalina de Manila, a convent, on July 26, 1696 in Intramuros in the Spanish Philippines. It was a religious congregation for Spanish religious women, under the leadership of Mother Francisca del Espiritu Santo, who served as the first prioress of the congregation in the country and Rev. Fr. Juan de Sto. Domingo, who served as the congregation's adviser.
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However, soon after her marriage she was widowed and left very sound financially. Instead of retiring as a wealthy widow, however, she joined a convent of consecrated virgins in the city—shedding all the money and social standing she possessed. In later years she was named the prioress of the convent. Saint Lea supported the house run by Saint Marcella, working as a menial servant, and later served as the group’s superior.
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Stubber Priory was under the control of the Bishop of Ribe and it is unknown which monastic house had responsibility for the priestly functions required by the nuns at Stubber Priory. The priory complex was built in the usual four-sided rectangle with the church as the south range. The priory was run by the prioress. A prior, often a local noble was responsible for managing the farms and income to provide for the nuns.
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In 1518 Prioress Wommella Wachmans appealed to the Wursten Consuls not to incite or even undertake the ravaging of houses and looting of grain and firewood from the convent's feudal tenants.Soli Deo Gloria – 1111 Holßel 2011: Festschrift zur 900-Jahr-Feier in Holßel, Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchengemeinde Holßel (ed.), Holßel: no publ., 2011, p. 111. The troops of Christopher the Spendthrift finally subjected the Wursten Frisians in the Battle of Mulsum on 9 August 1524.
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Inside, some fine holy water fonts made from ancient capitals, and on the fourth pillar on the right, a fresco, perhaps to be attributed to the circle of Salimbeni of Sanseverino, depicting the Madonna and Child. It preserves a Crudeli organ of the late eighteenth century recently restored Since 1169 we have news of the nearby Rectory, led by an abbot and faithful to the rule of Sant'Agostino. He became prioress and, in 1807, archpriest. F. Capponi.
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In 1897, she moved to Sioux City, Iowa with six other sisters, where she established the Sisters of St. Benedict of Sioux City and served as their prioress. In this capacity she supervised the opening of Villa Maria, a home for working girls in 1901, St. Vincent Hospital in 1907, St. Vincent School of Nursing in 1910, St. Monica’s home for orphans and unwed mothers in 1914, and the Benedictine Hospital in Sterling, Colorado in 1925.
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Møstingsholm was named after Christiane Møsting, the prioress of the convent from 1797 until 1820. In 1904, Roskilde Convent decided to almost double the size of their park. Completed in 1906, the new section was designed by E. Galschiøtt and restored several of the old fishing ponds which had dried out over the years. It was named Berte-Margrethe Anlægget ("The Berthe-Margrethe Complex") in memory of Berthe Skeel and Margrethe Ulfeld, the two founders of the convent.
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So, one day in the presence of Obviar, the prioress lifted the veil of Castillo and imparted a kiss on her eyes. Instantly, Castillo's blindness was cured. Obviar doubted no more that the apparitions were heavenly. In her last apparition to Castillo, the Blessed Virgin identified herself: "I am the Mediatrix of All Grace.."Lesaba, Marrah Erika. "Lipa bishop lifts ban on ‘Our Lady’", Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 18, 2009 Reportedly, many conversions and healings occurred.
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The prioress was instructed to take her meals in the refectory and to sleep in the dormitory, like the others. Lay people were not to sleep in the convent, and this included the prioress's maid. The nuns were not to converse with outsiders, and nuns were not to leave the cloister without good reason: one Emma of Bromsgrove was named as falling short in this regard. A Franciscan friar was appointed as a confessor to the nuns.
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After his escape it was read by the nuns at Beas, who made copies of the stanzas. Over the following years, John added further lines. Today, two versions exist: one with 39 stanzas and one with 40 with some of the stanzas ordered differently. The first redaction of the commentary on the poem was written in 1584, at the request of Madre Ana de Jesús, when she was prioress of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Granada.
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The marriage took place on 19 September 1719 and remained childless. After her husband died in 1731, she initially lived at Rheinfels Castle, later she moved into the Carmelites monastery in Neuburg an der Donau, where she was known under the religious name Sister Augusta and eventually became prioress. According to Torsy and Kracht, she was a model for her sisters of obedience, humility and love of poverty. She had a reputation of sanctity when she died in 1775.
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Seven years later, in 1480, Isabel the prioress and the nuns, having no surviving charters and title-deeds, presented their compilation charter, which they ascribed to William Rufus, and had it inspected and confirmed. It seems likely this was the only way to ensure the nunnery's survival, but in doing so the compilation was subject to the unreliability of memory and oral tradition, and was not historically accurate. However it is certain that the nunnery was founded before 1200.
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In 1285 Duke Przemysław of Racibórz granted the Wrocław bishop Thomas II Zaremba asylum during his fierce struggle with the Silesian duke Henry IV Probus. In turn, Bishop Thomas donated a college of canons at Racibórz Castle, dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury. Duke Przemysław also founded a Dominican nunnery and his daughter Euphemia became its first prioress in 1313. Around 1300, the Dominican friar Peregrine of Opole compiled his Sermones de tempore and Sermones de sanctis collections.
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Worsley's parents were John and Eleanor Worsley who had lived on the Isle of Wight but they were persecuted because they were Roman Catholics and they went into exile. Anne decided on a religious life at the age of fifteen when she was living abroad. She decided to be a nun and opted for the Carmelites. She was the founding prioress of the English Carmelite convent in Antwerp where her first novice was younger sister Theresa.
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La Beata became prioress in a convent founded especially for her by the Duke of Alba in her native village in central Castile.Jodi Bilinkoff, "A Spanish Prophetess and Her Patrons: The Case of Maria de Santo Domingo" Sixteenth Century Journal 23.1 (Spring 1992:21-34). Antonio de la Peña and Diego Victoria transcribed Maria's stream-of-counsciousness Book of Prayer, and printed it circa 1518. A copy was discovered in Zaragoza and a facsimile edition republished in Madrid (1948).
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The land upon which the Golden Parsonage sits, was once a part of the King's Langley Priory, having been owned on the Orders behalf by the Prioress of Dartford. Part of this land was farmed by John Halsey who tenanted at the site from 1520 onwards. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory closed and the land passed to The Crown. In 1544, the land was purchased for £174 13s 4d by William Halsey, John's son.
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Determined to find Matthew, she visited his birthplace and with his brothers made further enquiries, but without success. Despairing of an answer she returned to Clerkenwell. Not long afterwards a man belonging to the city of Salisbury positively assured her that her husband was dead. Recommended by the Prioress of Clerkenwell, Ellen entered the service of Thomas Cromwell's mother-in-law, Mercy Pryor, and was dwelling in his house when Ralph Sadler became enamoured of her.
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Catalina de Balmaseda y San Martín or Sister Catalina de Cristo (1543-1594) was a Carmelite nun and associate of Teresa of Ávila. She was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres in Spain to nobility. Her parents did not teach her to read as they felt that would keep her innocent and away from heresy. This ultimately became an impediment to her as a nun and the order taught her reading before she became a prioress.
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Worsley was born in Lancashire, England, 1605. His cousin was the prioress Anne Worsley. He is said to have been educated at Oxford, but his name does not occur in the University Registers, and it is equally uncertain that he took Anglican orders. Having become a Jesuit on 7 September 1626,Edward Worsley at Wikisource he studied at Liège, where he subsequently became a professor of philosophy, logic, and Scripture, winning a great reputation for talent and erudition.
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In 1790, with the impact of French Revolution still uncertain and Emperor Joseph II's campaign against monastic establishments under way, Father Charles Neale, the nuns' Maryland-born chaplain, offered Mathews farmland in Port Tobacco, Maryland, where she could build a convent. The new residence was dedicated on October 15, 1790. A convent for contemplatives, it was the first convent for Catholic women established in the United States. Mathews was its prioress until her death ten years later.
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Bartholomew's sister Isabel married the heir of Theobald de Valoines, founder of Hickling Priory and of the nunnery at Campsey Priory, and in 1229 Bartholomew obtained the manor of Helmingham Hall (Creke Hall), Suffolk, from Theobald's sister Joan, prioress of Campsey, in exchange for rents out of his lands at Combs.W. Rye, A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Suffolk, p. 29, 13 Henry III, no. 141. View original at AALT (Anglo- American Legal Tradition website).
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At about this time Maria de Wyngfield was prioress of Campsey.'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey' (V.C.H.), citing Norwich Episcopal Registers ii, 65. Following the death of the Earl of Cornwall, in 1337 Robert was created Earl of Suffolk, his maintenance including the Honour of Eye with the reversion of the manor of Benhall (with patronage of Butley Priory and Leiston Abbey)Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III, A.D. 1337–1339 (HMSO, London 1900), p.
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Some of the same issues were discussed again in the decree of Robert de Stretton, dated 12 January 1358, following a visitation in 1357.Collections for a History of Staffordshire, series 2, volume 8, p. 118-9. It seems that the nuns were partial to taking trips to Lichfield: they were warned not to do so without permission from the prioress. They were to be accompanied by two other nuns and were not to tarry in the town.
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Dr. Juan Olivarez became the seventh President on July 1, 2011 and retired upon completion of the school year in the spring of 2017. Dr. Kevin Quinn is the eighth and current President of the college. In March 2014, Dr. Gilda Gely became Provost and Dean of Faculty. Notable members of the Board of Trustees include Chairman Lt. General John Nowak, United States Air Force (Ret.) and Sr. Nathalie Meyer, OP, Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids.
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William Atwater, the Bishop of Lincoln, launched an investigation into the rumours of the nuns' irregular lifestyle. Trouble continued, however, and in a subsequent inquiry the bishop heard complaints from both the prioress and the nuns, who made accusations against each other. Wells was summoned to the bishop's court in Lincoln to face charges of corruption and incontinence which eventually led to her being dismissed from office. The end of the affair is unknown, as records have not survived.
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Maria was inducted in the convent of Unter-Zell in Bavaria in 1699, where she made herself known for her great piety and was appointed Sub Prioress in 1740. In 1746, one of the nuns, Cecilia, became afflicted with convulsions and claimed to be possessed by demons and poltergeists. The attacks spread through the convent and soon several nuns suffered from hysteric attacks. One of them died, after which Renata was pointed out as a satanist and a magician.
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Anna von Munzingen was a German prioress of the 14th century, who descended from a well known noble family at Freiburg. In 1318 she wrote a "chronicle" of the mystical experiences of her nuns in the work Adelhausen Schwesternbuch (Sister-book of the Adelhausen Covent). The text was originally composed in Latin, but only a Middle High German translation survives. The chronicle comprises a collection of thirty-seven biographies of the sisters, focussing on visions, theophanies and mystical experiences.
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A 16th-century copy of a medieval list of donations says that a certain Queen Helena donated land in Slaka parish to Vreta Abbey in Östergötland, then entered the abbey as a nun.Ahnlund, "Till frågan om den äldsta Erikskulten i Sverige", p. 319. On the basis of this, some historians assume that Canute's queen withdrew from the world shortly after her husband's murder, in about 1158, joining her sister Ingegerd (d. 1204) who was the prioress of Vreta.
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The abbots of Affligem Abbey, which had been the ecclesiastical owners of the parish since the bishop of Cambrai ceded it to them in 1105, decided to build a priory for women in Forest, which would eventually become Forest Abbey.Official site The first prioress was named in 1239. Also in the 13th century, the Romanesque church of Saint Denis was rebuilt in the newer Gothic style. The neighbouring abbey church was rebuilt in the 15th century.
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Certainly the prioress of Fontevrault wrote frequently to Edward I asking that his daughter be allowed to live there. Probably to prevent his daughter falling into French hands in the event of war with England, Edward refused, and Mary remained at Amesbury, while her allowance was doubled to £200 per year. In 1292, she was also given the right to forty oaks per year from royal forests and twenty tuns of wine per year from Southampton.
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Trinity Temple or Teampall na Trionad is the ruins of a 13th-century Augustinian nunnery and "college of learning". It is written in the Red Book of Clanranald that the nunnery was founded by Bethóc, the Prioress of Iona Nunnery and the daughter of Somerled, the ancestor of the Chiefs of Clan MacDougall, the Lords of the Isles, Clan Donald, Clan MacRory, and Clan MacAlister. Bill Lawson (2004), North Uist in History and Legend, Birlinn. Page 79.
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Sybil Montagu or Montague or de Montague or Montacute was a daughter of John de Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu and his wife Margaret de Monthermer.George Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1841. Royal Berkshire History from a family of knights and politicians, supporters of Richard II who became Earls of Salisbury. At an unknown date she entered the Priory of Amesbury and became a nun and in 1391 was elected the monastery's prioress.
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They met the envoys at the visitors' grid and left the meeting "with disgrace". During the third attempt resolution on 16 March 1563, the Prioress received the envoys of the Elector after threats of violence. The envoys were received in a room, where all the residents of the monastery had gathered, 13 nuns and 9 lay sisters, all dressed in their religious attire. The envoys later reported: Some time later, Frederick III visited the monastery in person.
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They were also to emphasise their obedience and support for Joan, and request Wake to restore Pykering to possession of the temporalities of the priory as soon as possible. Seen by the nuns as an "imported... interloper", Power described Joan at this time as, "a luckless exile in the tents of Kedar". Four days later the Archbishop instigated a commission to investigate the offences he had uncovered, and placed the priory under interdict until Pykering was accepted as prioress.
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Geoffrey de Gorham became abbot of St Albans in 1119, and as prioress, Christina became his close friend and counsellor. Their friendship was such that he is said to have altered the St. Albans Psalter as a gift for her, by having an illuminated "C" placed at the beginning of Psalm 105. Images of each page of the Psalter with transcriptions and translations of the text can be found on the online St Albans Psalter project.
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Somerled, the brother-in-law of Norway's governor of the region (the King of the Isles), launched a revolt, and made the kingdom independent. A convent for Augustinian nuns was established in about 1208, with Bethóc, Somerled's daughter, as first prioress. The present Benedictine abbey, Iona Abbey, was built in about 1203. On Somerled's death, nominal Norwegian overlordship of the Kingdom was re-established, but de facto control was split between Somerled's sons, and his brother-in-law.
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Historians recount that in 1422, Sir John Stanley, then Lord of Mann, summoned all eight barons. Three of the barons showed up, including the prioress and the Bishop of Sodor and Man (also a baron), but several others did not, perhaps because they were off the island, and this likely resulted in a loss of their lands.A short treatise on the Isle of Man: digested into six chapters - James Chaloner - Google Boeken The title ended with the suppression of the priory.
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By 1712 it was in the possession of Nathaniel Axtell who, in his Monasticon Anglicanum, discusses some of the priory's obituaries. Axtell belonged to St. Julian's and All Saints in Norwich, which were, during the monastic period, under the Prioress of Carrow. By 1811 the estate, the building, lands and manor of Carrow had been purchased by the Martineau family who could trace their descent from a Huguenot refugee. This distinguished medical family found a haven in Norwich from religious persecution.
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Other than Orford Priory, these were: Barlings Abbey, Cammeringham Priory, Hagnaby Abbey, Newbo Abbey, Newsham Abbey, Stixwould Priory, Tupholme Abbey and West Ravendale Priory. A nun from Orford was excommunicated in 1491 by Bishop Redman for breach of her vow of chastity, her partner being a canon of Newsham. There were seven nuns and a prioress when the priory was Dissolved in 1539. The remains of the priory, and Post-medieval house and garden lie immediately south of the now derelict Priory farm.
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Heynings Priory was a priory in Knaith, Lincolnshire, England. The priory of Heynings was founded by Rayner de Evermue, Lord of Knaith, for Cistercian nuns, probably early in the reign of King Stephen, and the patronage of the house remained with the lords of Knaith through most of its history. Rayner de Evermue died before its completion, leaving them with a meagre endowment which left them extremely poor. The priory was dissolved in 1539 by Jane Sanford, Prioress, and eleven nuns.
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Three years later, the prioress vindicated her claim to the advowson of the church at Broome. Alexander de Bransford, the parson of Broome who died around 1205, had been presented by the previous manorial lord, Richard of Ombersley, whose father Maurice was reckoned the founder of the church.Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 3, p. 127. Broom had been created by partitioning Clent and granted to Maurice in 1154.Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 2, p. 117.
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It is unclear whether an excess of financial zeal led to a brush with the law in 1324. At Easter of that year Prioress Alice Swynnerton was accused, with two others, of taking by force two oxen, valued at 40 shillings, the property of Clement of Wolverhampton, at Horsebrook. She was distrained and her co-accused arrested by the sheriff to secure their appearance at the next court sessions.Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 9, part 1, p. 101.
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Baugh et al. Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Brewood (Black Ladies), footnote 44. in A History of the County of Stafford, volume 3. Isabel Lawnder was probably from Beech, near Stone, Staffordshire, the daughter of Ralph Launder.Baugh et al. Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Brewood (Black Ladies), footnote 45. in A History of the County of Stafford, volume 3. She was prioress by 1521 and held the post until the dissolution of the priory in 1538.
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The expiration of her last term of office saw her return to Paris, though she was warned in a vision and so proceeded to the Flanders in October 1611. There she founded and became prioress of a convent in Antwerp on 27 October 1612 which she governed to the end of her life. Another source attributes the leadership of the Antwerp convent to her follower Anne Worsley. Twice she was instrumental in delivering the town from the hands of Protestant forces.
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After her death the superiors of the priory held the title of prioress, as is customary for communities of Augustinian canonesses. The priory which Tredway established continued in operation, along with the school attached to it, until the French Revolution, when the English canonesses were finally forced to flee. They returned to their homeland, where they found that they were able to live out their life as a religious community. Eventually the community established itself as St Augustine's Priory, Ealing.
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As a young religious sister she taught at schools in Stone. In 1860, Sister Rose Columba became vicaress in the community at the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Stoke-upon-Trent. She was appointed vicaress (later prioress) at St. Mary Church in Torquay in 1866, and served there until 1883. In the summer of 1883, Mother Rose Columba left that work to lead a group of eight overseas to Australia, where Dominican sisters were called to nurse.
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In 1521 only five nuns and the prioress lived here, and on 11 August 1536 the house was suppressed. It was valued as the poorest and smallest of the Benedictine nunneries in Yorkshire surviving until then. The priory was northeast of the village of Nunburnholme, between Nun's Walk and Back Lane. The site of the priory is a Scheduled Monument, described as featuring "extensive earthworks... across the whole of the site" and "a group of well preserved but now dry fishponds".
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Although Wanda continues to drink and engage in apparently meaningless casual sex, she is also now mourning not only the loss of her son and sister, but now also her niece. Ida returns to the convent but is visibly unenthusiastic about her life there, and informs the prioress she is not ready to take her solemn vows. Wanda's melancholy deepens and she ultimately jumps to her death out of her apartment window. Ida returns to attend Wanda's funeral, where she sees Lis again.
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Her vision is illustrated on the historiated initial letter of her vita as it appears in Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (MS 945, fol. 2). Around 1225, she was elected prioress of the double canonry and told her visions to her confessor,McPortland, Joanne. "Juliana of Liege", Aleteia, May 29, 2016 Canon John of Lausanne (a secular canon of the collegiate chapter at Saint Martin Basilica). Canon John had many contacts among the distinguished French theologians and Dominican professors who had gathered in Liège.
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She seems not to have returned until 1331, when she had to confess before Northburgh in Brewood parish church, ask for readmission at the priory entrance and undergo penance. When he visited White Ladies in 1338, Northburgh reprimanded the prioress, Alice Harley, for financial mismanagement and extravagance, including her expenditure on clothes. He also demanded that she cease hunting with hounds.Angold et al. “House of Augustinian canonesses: Priory of St Leonard, Brewood” in Gaydon and Pugh Polesworth Abbey gatehouse, Warwickshire.
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The Campsey nuns opposed Robert's claim to be their patron. Some time between 1244 and 1257 he came to an agreement with them, by which they accepted Robert and his heirs as their patrons, and he in turn assured their right to elect their own prioress, who should be presented to him for approval, and renounced any right to sell off their lands while he had wardship during a vacancy. Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk and Hugh Bigod witnessed their settlement.
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Their prioress, Mother Mary Margaret of the Angels, O.C.D., born Mary Brent in Maryland, was Neale's cousin through his grandmother, the wife of his grandfather, Oswald Neale. During the ten years Neale served this community, he maintained contact with his friends and colleagues in Maryland. Through this dialogue, the nuns were encouraged to attempt a foundation in the new nation, the United States of America, which was just emerging from the American Revolution. Neale accompanied the women on their return voyage to Maryland.
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The Lauder of The Bass family also long held the superiority of 364 acres (14 husbandlands) at Garvald. In 1495, at Edinburgh, Robert Lawder was granted Sasine of the superiority of Stenton, Garvald, and The Bass. Acta Dominorum Concilii records a dispute in 1501 between Jonet, prioress of the Convent of Haddington, and Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass, knight, regarding the lands and chapellany of Garvald. At Edinburgh on the 29 April 1519, his son, also Robert Lauder of The Bass (d.
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St Mary's Abbey of English Benedictine nuns had its origins in 1623 at Cambrai in the Spanish Netherlands. At that time, persecution made it impossible for women to become nuns in England. By 1645, the Cambrai community under Abbess Catherine Gascoigne had increased to 50 nuns, and was living in conditions of extreme poverty. On 6 February 1652, the community was established in Paris as the Priory of Our Lady of Good Hope under Dame Bridget More as their Prioress.
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Funerary Brass of Dame Agnes Jordan from Denham Church, Bucks Agnes Jordan (died 29 January 1546) was the last pre-reformation Abbess of Syon Monastery.Syon Abbey, from: www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/SyonAbbey.htm It was she who had to sign the deed of surrender on 25 November 1539 which brought to an abrupt end the life of the abbey and granted all its property and wealth to Henry VIII. She was the sister of Isabel Jordan, prioress and later abbess of Wilton Abbey.
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In 1326, Roger Northburgh, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, made a visitation and demanded that the prioress present proper accounts, which she seemed unable to do, and that the cellaress and steward be dismissed. It seems that the community was always very small, and as dissolution approached it never numbered above four, although with a number of lay staff.VCH Staffordshire, volume 3, chapter 12, s.1. Ruins of White Ladies Priory, just west of Bishops Wood, viewed from the north-east.
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It emulated, then, the monasteries found in Europe—mainly France and German—as well as the monastic traditions of their English Dominican brothers. The first nuns to inhabit Dartford were sent from Poissy Priory in France. Even on the eve of the Dissolution, Prioress Jane Vane wrote to Cromwell on behalf of a postulant, saying that though she had not actually been professed, she was professed in her heart and in the eyes of God. This is only one such example of dedication.
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Essential outbuildings had been leased by Wells to the priory's secular neighbours, and she had kept the rents herself. They also protested their decrepit clothing, poor and insufficient food and bad ale. Horde discovered the bulk of the priory's foundation wealth, including its jewellery, had been pawned or spent on the prioress's "evil life". At the same time, the nuns lacked basic necessities, including food and clothing, and could not purchase anything for themselves as the prioress regularly confiscated their stipends.
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'Robin Hood's Grave' in the woods near Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire At Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire stands an alleged grave with a spurious inscription, which relates to Robin Hood. The fifteenth-century ballads relate that before he died, Robin told Little John where to bury him. He shot an arrow from the Priory window, and where the arrow landed was to be the site of his grave. The Gest states that the Prioress was a relative of Robin's.
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Bromhall Priory was a nunnery of Benedictine nuns at Sunningdale in the English county of Berkshire. It was established in 1200 and when dissolved in 1524. An inquisition was held in 1522 into the lands of Bromhall Priory, where the prioress had resigned in September 1521 and left with two other nuns in December. The inquisition gave no explanation for the prioress's departure, but in 1524 Clement VII issued a bull suppressing the house, on account of the demerits of the nuns.
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The buildings were acquired by Richard Calcot, Comptroller of the Isle of Man, who is said to have married the last Prioress, Margaret Goodman. The family occupied a house on the site until their descendants, the Heywoods, sold it to the Taubmans in 1776. A new mansion was built for John Taubman in 1823. It was designed by both John Pinch the elder and his son, John Pinch the younger, of Bath, built in the "Strawberry Hill" Gothic Revival style.
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Herbert was the fourth daughter of William Herbert, 1st Marquis of Powis, a leading Catholic nobleman, by his wife Elizabeth Somerset, younger daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquis of Worcester. She left England for the Spanish Netherlands, where she was admitted to the priory of the English canonesses regular at Bruges around 1690. She professed solemn vows as a full member of the monastic community in 1693, and was elected prioress of the community in 1709. She died in Bruges.
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There he presented his request for volunteers from the community. He received only one, Sister Mary of the Cross Goemaere, O.P., (1809–1891) a Belgian novice. Goemaere set sail with Alemany and another friar for San Francisco, where they landed the following 6 December. The following spring, she moved to Monterey, where she opened St. Catherine Academy, the first private and Catholic school in the State, as well as first religious community of women, of which she was the prioress.
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It had both an abbess and a prioress. In 1361, many fallen from the Battle of Visby was buried on the abbey's land, where a cross, which still stands, was erected. The abbey was presumably destroyed by the war between the Victual Brothers, the Teutonic Knights and the forces of the Kalmar Union in 1398-1403. In 1404, the abbess applied for help from the Master of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, then in control of Gotland, to found a new abbey.
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On 7 February 1415 King Henry V, in the presence of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that she receive "suitable sustenance for herself and her servants from the spiritual and temporal possessions belonging to the said priory of Amesbury" until a visitation of the house could be conducted by the Archbishop and the ills remedied.Malcolm Vale, Henry V: The Conscience of a King, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016, p. 193. Again, the doughty Sybil survived and maintained her position as prioress.
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She had a special gift for reaching the deaf and mentally ill nuns among her charges. At the same time, she was able to grow deeply in her interior life. She was given a special contemplative experience concerning the words of I John 4:8, "God is love", which was a phrase she would repeat often. Despite the constant reprimands and humiliations inflicted on her by the prioress of the community in order to test her, she proved to be unfailingly cheerful.
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Bridgettine abbeys were double monasteries, with both monks and nuns; but the nuns were the focus of the abbey's life. Each abbey was to have 60 nuns ruled by a prioress. Some two dozen monks lived in a separate part of the monastery and provided spiritual services as priests to both the monastic community and to pilgrims. Lay brothers also were a part of the men's contingent in the abbey so as to help with the daily work that needed to be done.
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The Adrian Dominican Congregation entered into its General Chapter of Renewal in 1968 after the Second Vatican Council. This was a time of transition as it was for all United States congregations of women religious. General Councilors became full-time participants with the Prioresses in directing the life in mission of the Congregation. Over the years, Sisters Nadine Foley and Donna Markham were elected president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States during their terms as Prioress.
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Del Clay was to denounce the two nuns—"in the mother tongue"—for their disobedience before the collected convent. Further, instructed Greenfield, "they were not to meddle with any internal or external business of the house in any way, or to go outside of the enclosure of the monastery, or to say anything against the prioress, on pain of expulsion and of the greater excommunication". Archbishop Greenfield died in December 1315. This presented the discontented nuns with an opportunity to change prioresses again.
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In 1310 the last will of the rich Benvenuta Mastrangelo determined the foundation of a female monastery under the direction of the Dominican Order. The new monastery was dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria and was erected in the area where the old palace of George of Antioch, admiral of Roger II of Sicily, stood. In 1532 the widening of the building was decided. Between 1566 and 1596 the church was rebuilt under the supervision of the Mother Prioress Maria del Carretto.
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Accounts of her life state that she experienced ecstasies, levitated, and dripped blood from her forehead and hair when entranced. She refused the honor of serving as abbess. However, in 1205, she was chosen to be prioress of her community."St. Lutgardis", Christ in the Desert Monastery In 1208, at Aywières (Awirs), near Liège, she joined the Cistercians, a stricter order, on the advice of her friend Christina the Astonishing. The nuns of Aywières spoke French, not Lutgarde’s native Flemish.
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The new Commission did not succeed in calming the dispute, and Jost von Borcke described the situation at Marienfließ as one of chaos, mistrust, name- calling, and occasional violence. Philip II died in 1618 and was succeeded by Duke Francis I. Jost von Borcke was in good standing at Francis's court and remained head of the investigating Commission.Riedl (2004), p. 144. In July 1619, a dispute between Sidonia and Unterpriorin (sub-prioress) Dorothea von Stettin escalated out of control during a mass, and both women were arrested.
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In 1310 religious houses in Northamptonshire including Catesby were required to contribute food to one of Edward II's unsuccessful military campaigns against Scotland. However, from 1315 to 1322 the same king granted the priory a number of tax exemptions. In the early 15th century the priory was recorded as earning a large income from wool. Then in 1491 the prioress had about 60 people evicted and their 14 houses demolished in "Catesby", and had their land enclosed and converted from arable to sheep pasture.
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Canon 657, CIC 1983 In the branches of the Benedictine tradition, (Benedictines, Cistercians, Camaldolese, and Trappists, among others) nuns take vows of stability (that is, to remain a member of a single monastic community), obedience (to an abbess or prioress), and conversion of life (which includes poverty and celibacy). In other traditions, such as the Poor Clares (the Franciscan Order) and the Dominican nuns, they take the threefold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. These are known as the ‘evangelical counsels’ as opposed to ‘monastic vows’ proper.
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Bishops were forced to intervene three times in the 15th century in 1442, 1452 and 1485 to appoint a prioress because of prolonged vacancies, although the nuns were supposed to elect their own head.Baugh et al. Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Brewood (Black Ladies), note anchors 25 and 26 in A History of the County of Stafford, volume 3. However, the visitation of 1521 found the priory in good order, although one nun commented that young girls slept in the dormitory with the nuns.
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In 1881, permission was received from the Archbishop to build a new academy on the property at Greenville; the cornerstone was laid in 1882. Later the suburban village of Greenville was incorporated into the City of New Orleans. In 1900, Mother Mary de Ricci, assistant to the Prioress, called a preliminary meeting of all former pupils of Dominican Academy for the purpose of establishing an Alumnae Association. In January 1901, there was a well-organized association that selected St. Catherine of Siena as its Patroness.
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Maria degli Angeli decided to establish a Discalced Carmelite convent named in honour of Saint Joseph in Moncalieri after receiving encouragement from Blessed Sebastian Valfrè. The convent was inaugurated on 16 September 1703. Her fellow sisters were about to elect her to a fifth term as prioress and she begged God in November 1717 to let her die if it was His will due to her reluctance to continue in her position. She fell ill not long after and died on 16 December 1717.
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In 1223 the provost and community of Ahnaberg re-stated their rights in Eppenberg. On 17 February 1224 Archbishop Siegfried once more confirmed the rights of Ahnaberg Priory. But in 1250, for reasons now unknown, the prioress of Eppenberg openly rejected the rights of Ahnaberg, and Eppenberg became an independent house, now, like Ahnaberg, under the supervision and protection of Spieskappel Abbey. The newly independent priory rapidly flourished, mostly because of gifts and acquisitions of land in the nearby villages of Altenbrunslar, Böddiger, Besse and Gensungen.
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In Castile, the Visitor was Pedro Fernández, who prudently balanced the interests of the Discalced Carmelites with those of the nuns and friars who did not desire reform.He is possibly the same Pedro Fernández who became the Bishop of Ávila in 1581. He who appointed Teresa as prioress in Ávila in 1571, while also maintaining good relations with the Carmelite Prior Provincial of Castile. In Andalusia to the south, the Visitor was Francisco Vargas, and tensions rose due to his clear preference for the Discalced friars.
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It is possible that Thomas was the senior priest there when it was erected into a collegiate church; Thomas is certainly the earliest known provost, and neither the appointment nor the death of any predecessor are noted anywhere.Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 366. He held the vicarage of Lochrutton in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1388, when a papal letter indicated that he was expected to resign Lochrutton after obtaining the benefice of Maybole in the gift of the Prioress of the nunnery of North Berwick.Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p.
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Fradenburg notes that the substance of the "Prioress' Tale" can be linked to the "'child- host' miracle of the later Middle Ages" which involved the substitution of the "actual body of the Christ Child" for the Eucharist.Fradenburg 206 Such miraculous tales appear designed to reaffirm faith in the miraculous efficacy of transubstantiation in the face of the pressure of Lollard dissent, which broadly questioned the spiritual status of the Eucharist and other Church traditions: relics, clerical celibacy, even pilgrimages.A. G. Dickens. The English Reformation.
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The nun made a short visit to Madrid after her friend's death. Following the death of the foundress, she returned to Ávila and took part in the foundation of a convent at Ocana (1595) while she was one of the seven nuns selected for the introduction of the order into the Kingdom of France on 15 October 1604. The French superiors - desirous of sending her as a prioress to Pontoise - obliged her to pass from the state of a secular religious to that of a choir nun.
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Juliana Berners is mentioned in the 1486 edition, but little is known about her life. She is said to have been the Benedictine prioress of the Priory of St. Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was probably born into the nobility, which would explain her level of education and her love of field sports. It is not clear how much of The Book of Saint Albans was written by Juliana Berners, but she is most commonly associated with the treatise on hunting.
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The most extensive estate they possessed in one place was 'the Nouneclose,' consisting of 216 acres. The house seems to have been dissolved soon after 31 July 1537, when the inventory was made. There was a prioress and three nuns, and none were accused by the commissioners in their notorious “Black Book”.In 1536 the agents of King Henry VIII wrote in a black book the names of those to be censured or punished, specifically "sinful" English monasteries (whose lands Henry wanted to acquire).
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In 1536 Denmark became a Lutheran kingdom under King Christian III and all religious houses and their income properties fell to the crown. Despite the antagonism to the Dominicans' constant requests for money, food, and clothing for their charitable works and for upkeep of the priory, the secularized nuns were permitted to remain at the priory until at least 1556. The prioress continued to maintain order inside the priory while a secular superintendent, Mogens Gøye (ca. 1470–1544), administered priory dealings with the outside world.
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In 1875, the French monastery Lyon- Vaise founded the cloister San Vito in Italia. The noblewoman Julie Astoin, which was born in 1831 in Digne and had lived in Turin, played a special role, because she accepted the religious name Thérèse after the arrival in Lyon- Vaise (1867). The mansion Rabbi near Turin was bought by her in San Vito (today Possiasco) with her financial help and she founded the new monastery (Julie as matron) in 1875. Afterwards, the prioress Thérèse led the cloister until 1898.
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The existing tower was added and the bell hung, which was cast by P.H.P in 1400 and is still rung in the tower today. The priory and nuns were led by the prioress, while the provost, or prior, who was often a layman and local nobleman, acted for them in secular matters. Some priors lived at Børglum Abbey and were monks, but served the same purpose. Over time the priory came into possession of several farms and other income properties, though it was by no means wealthy.
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The nunnery was founded in the 12th century by Robert de Verli, under Fountains Abbey, initially with 14 nuns and a prioress, and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In 1177 a papal bull from Pope Alexander III confirmed the Cistercian rights of the house. By 1181 when Henry II confirmed the house it included a master, cannons, brothers and nuns. In subsequent years the separation of men and women within the institution was criticised as not being as good as it should be.
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The Belmeis family, closely involved in the foundation of Lilleshall Abbey during the 12th century,Angold et al. Abbey of Lilleshall, note anchor 1. turned their generosity to White Ladies in the 13th and 14th. It seems that the priory already had substantial holdings in the Belmeis manor of Donington by the mid 13th century, as Joanna, widow of Walter de Belmeis was forced to seek a settlement of her dower in 1256 by suing the prioress for a third part of 100 acres.
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However, on their withdrawal, Swedish troops laid fire to the abbey in December 1646. In 1685 Gutenzell Abbey received the privilege of inflicting high justice. Pulpit at monastery church In the second half of the 18th century the last major refurbishment of the monastery church was carried out in 1755-56 by the Wessobrunn stuccoist Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder, possibly following plans by Dominikus Zimmermann, whose daughter Maria Alexandra was prioress at the time. Later she would be abbess from 1759 to 1776.
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In Roman Catholicism, a black veil is the traditional sign of a solemnly professed nun. The nun will make her profession of solemn vows during a Mass. During the course of the Mass, she will lie prostrate as the community and all in the Church pray over her, present her vows, signed upon the altar, to the bishop and profess her vows to the Abbess or Prioress of the monastery. After the vows have been professed her white veil will be swapped for a black veil.
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When Juliana became prioress of the canonry, she re-instated strict Augustinian rules. In 1240, the canonry and adjacent leprosarium came under the supervision of a man named Roger, a vicious man who had gained the position through simony and intrigue. He immediately disliked both Juliana and her reproaches, and incited the citizenry against her, accusing her of diverting and stealing the hospital's funds. She fled to the anchorhold of her friend, Dame Eve, and was then received into Canon John's house, adjacent to the basilica.
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Mac Curtain was a native of County Cork, Ireland. She was the daughter of Sean and Ann Mac Curtáin. She received her Bachelors of in 1950 Arts degree from University College Cork (UCC), where she won the Peel Prize and turned down an opportunity to study with J. R. R. Tolkien prior to joining the Dominican Order.Ariadne’s thread: writing women into Irish history She joined the teaching staff at Sion Hill, Blackrock and she held several positions including Prioress of Sion Hill Convent(1984–1989).
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The Little Sisters was founded in 1985 by now-Mother Prioress Line when she befriended Véronique, a girl with Down Syndrome. The group was assisted by Jerome Lejeune, a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the chromosome abnormality that causes Down Syndrome. Véronique wanted to join a religious community but was denied because those she approached could not accommodate her needs. Line and Véronique moved into a small apartment in a council house in the village of Buxeuil to begin their community.
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The fragmentary ruins of St Edmund's Chapel. The ruins of St. Edmund's Chapel are located in a field to the east of the village of Lyng in the English county of Norfolk. The chapel was part of a Benedictine nunnery. It is unknown when the chapel was built, but it was transferred to Thetford in 1176, although the chapel was not abandoned until at least 1250 and a fair was held on the site by the Prioress of St. George's Priory, Thetford in 1287.
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Prioress of the Cistercian abbey of Saint Mary of Rieunette near Carcassonne (France). There are a large number of Cistercian nuns; the first community was founded in the Diocese of Langres in 1125; at the period of their widest extension there are said to have been 900 monasteries, and the communities were very large. In addition to being devoted to contemplation, the nuns in earlier times of the Order did agricultural work in the fields. In Spain and France a number of Cistercian abbesses had extraordinary privileges.
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The steadfastly Catholic Prioress Dorothea von der Hude upheld Catholic faith in the nunnery and its seigniorial precinct, supported by Hadeln's and Wursten's Archdeacon Ludolf Klencke, also cathedral dean in Bremen. After Klencke's death in 1544, the new Dean Ludolf von Varendorf became the archdeacon, soon becoming Lutheran himself. The Land of Wursten, westerly adjacent to the Neuenwalde estates, followed suit with its inhabitants adopting Lutheranism after 1546. In 1547 again Wursten Frisians ravaged the convent and its still Catholic villages of Krempel, Neuenwalde and Wanhöden.
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At that time Pietro also came to her, making a final plea to persuade Lucia to return with him as his wife. She declined, and Pietro left alone. He would himself later become a Franciscan friar and a famous preacher. When Lucy returned to the convent in Viterbo, she found that the Duke of Ferrara, Ercole d'Este I, had determined to build a convent in Ferrara, a city about 230 miles north, and that, having heard of her, he determined that she would be its prioress.
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Only one room of the building was heated. The times of silence and of solitude were many but the foundress had also planned for time for work and relaxation in common—the austerity of the life should not hinder sisterly and joyful relations. Founded in 1838, the Carmel of Lisieux in 1888 had 26 religious, from very different classes and backgrounds. For the majority of the life of Thérèse, the prioress would be Mother Marie de Gonzague, born Marie-Adéle-Rosalie Davy de Virville.
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123, 136, 167 He also had two known sisters—Isabel, the second wife of Sir Patrick Home of Fast Castle and an unnamed sister whose son, John Roul, became commendator of May after Forman's death.Dowden, Bishops of Scotland, pp. 167, 219 A possible third sister, Jonet Forman the Prioress of Eklis (Eccles), is the first named in a letter of protection and respite (similar to a will) dated 28 March 1513, when Forman lists a number of his kith and kin.Historical Review of Scotland, Vol.
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The priory was very small and poor, and had a history of troubled relations with its bishops, dating back to the mid-1400s. The scandal that came to light in 1517, however, became enough of a cause célèbre to contribute to the priory's eventual suppression in 1525. Katherine Wells, the prioress of Littlemore at that time, ran the priory with strict and often violent discipline. She was accused of regularly putting nuns in the stocks for extended periods, as well as physically assaulting them.
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Victorina entered the Discalced Carmelite nuns. On February 2, 1947 at the Carmelite monastery in Lipa, Batangas, she received the name Sister Mary Therese of the Sacred Heart after her favorite saint, Therese of Lisieux. During her stay at the Carmelite monastery in Lipa, she witnessed the miracles and the said apparitions of the Blessed Virgin as Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces to the postulant, Teresita Castillo. In 1956, she was transferred to the monastery of Angeles City and appointed as sub-prioress.
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In 1236 the monastery of Our Lady of Nazareth at Lier (Duchy of Brabant) was accepted into the Cistercian Order. Blessed Beatrice of Nazareth (1200-1268) was its first prioress. For five centuries the abbey flourished, until 1797, when it was closed in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the French Revolutionary Army occupied the Austrian Netherlands. The abbey did not recover from the closure even after the Belgian Revolution in 1830, when Belgium gained independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Eustachia de Say and her son Osbert FitzHugh gave the church located at Westwood to Fontevraud Abbey, in the Loire valley, where Henry II of England, his wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and their son Richard I (the Lionheart) are buried. Soon afterwards, a small priory was erected at Westwood, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, for six Benedictine nuns. Over the centuries the convent grew until it ultimately numbered eighteen sisters. The last prioress, Joyce Acton, received at the dissolution an annual pension of ten pounds.
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But she declined, emphasising that only the king (who was mentally unstable at this time) had the power to force her to take a husband, and she remained at the abbey. In later years, she became prioress of the convent and lived out the rest of her life there. She died of the Black Death on 19 August 1438 at the Palais Royal in Paris and is buried at the convent. The only one of her siblings who survived her was King Charles VII.
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The same nuns who had opposed de Stapleton's regime were "equally resistant" to that of Pykering's. It is likely, Burton suggests, that a lack of calibre among Keldholme's nuns accounted for the long interregnum between prioresses in 1308 and 1309. The Archdeacon placed de Pykering in corporeal possession of the priory, and rebuked those nuns who had opposed her predecessor. They were to accept the new prioress without question immediately, he said, as were "certain laymen who had prevented her from exercising her office".
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In the play, The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon by Anthony Munday, which was written in 1598, Marian appears as Robin's lawfully-wedded wife, who changes her name from Matilda when she joins him in the greenwood. She also has a cousin called Elizabeth de Staynton who is described as being the Prioress of Kirklees Priory near Brighouse in West Yorkshire. The 19th century antiquarian, Joseph Hunter, identified a Robert Hood, yeoman from Wakefield, Yorkshire, in the archives preserved in the Exchequer, whose personal story matched very closely the story of Robin in Anthony Munday's play, and this Robert Hood also married a woman named Matilda, who changed her name to Marian when she joined him in exile in Barnsdale Forest (following the Battle of Boroughbridge) in 1322, and who also had a cousin named Elizabeth de Staynton who was Prioress of Kirklees Priory. If these parallels are not coincidental, then the Marian of Robin Hood fame, whose origins may be distinct from the Marian of the May games or of Monday's play, may derive all her roots from her association with the historical Robert Hood of Wakefield.
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The second in her Dame Frevisse series, The Servant's Tale received a nomination at the 1994 Edgar Awards in the "Best Paperback Original" category. The following year The Bishop's Tale received a "Best Novel" nomination at the 1995 Minnesota Book Awards convention. She was next nominated in 1998 with the novel The Prioress' Tale, again for the "Paperback Original" award at the Edgars. Her last novel to receive an award nomination was The Reeve's Tale which at the 2000 Minnesota Book Awards, again in the "Best Novel" category.
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Colomba Matylda Gabriel was born in 1858 to nobles. In 1869 she started her education in Lviv under the Order of Saint Benedict at a school attached to their convent and she earned a diploma in teaching; she remained at her old school as a teacher. In 1882 she entered the Benedictines and assumed the religious name of "Janina". Her novitiate started on 30 August 1874 and she later made her solemn profession on 6 August 1882; she was appointed as prioress in 1889 and made novice mistress in 1894.
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In the following year, these measures were followed up by the inception of a new monastic policy which changed the liturgy within the convents drastically and nullified all monastic vows. The female communities were explicitly stated to be the new religious enemies.Rhegius, ’’Radtslach’’ (1530). In 1531, one of the ducal tax collectors even went so far as to destroy one of the chapels of Lüne Abbey, consecrated to Saint Gangulphus of Burgundy. As prioress Mechthild von Wilde died in 1535, the nuns’ opposition against the Reformation faltered altogether.
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Fedele wrote to Leone X asking for help in 1521, but he did not reply to her letter. She tried again in 1547 and wrote to Paolo III, who responded by giving her a position as the prioress of an orphanage at the church of San Domenico di Castello in Venice where she resided until her death. Fedele may have also struggled with health problems. Before her marriage she complained of an illness that was depleting her strength and making it difficult to concentrate on reading and writing for any length of time.
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She was assigned by the prioress of the monastery to copying manuscripts in its scriptorium, and was the librarian for the community, possibly between 1510 and 1527, according to her notes in specific codices. Ráskay also worked as a secretary, as a manuscript written in the name of Ilona Bocskay is known from her. With her collaborators, Ráskay was working on more books simultaneously. In 1529, when the monastery was evacuated because of the danger of the Ottoman forces, she fled, but took the most important codices to a safe place.
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Sister Christine Vladimiroff, OSB (January 12, 1940 - September 25, 2014) was the prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie from 1998 to 2010. As of 2004 she was also President of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, USA. In 2001, she declined a request from the Vatican to prohibit Sister Joan Chittister from attending a dissident women's ordination conference in Dublin, Ireland. On February 21, 2007, the Erie City Council issued special proclamations recognizing women religious, including Vladimiroff, in three Erie area communities, for making a difference in Erie through their respective ministries.
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Remains of Rosedale Abbey with the Church of St Mary and St Laurence behind Rosedale Priory was a priory in Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire, England that was founded 1150-1199\. By the time the priory was suppressed in 1535, it had one prioress and eight nuns. The religious house in Rosedale was a priory and not an abbey, despite the village being given the name Rosedale Abbey, and it is unclear why this came about. The priory was founded during the reign of Henry II and finished during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
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The house was surrendered on 29 September 1538 by the prior and seven canons. The prioress and eleven nuns were included with them in the pension list. Four years later, in the hands of the crown bailiff, the property brought in £131 16s. 5d., and included the rectories of Alvingham, Cockerington St. Mary, Cockerington St. Leonard, Keddington, Grainthorpe, and Stainton, and granges, lands, and rents in those places, and at Yarborough, Stewton, South Somercotes, Wold Newton, Clee, Great Grimsby, Swinfleet, Flixborough, Normanby, Boston, Rasen, Louth, Lincoln, and elsewhere.
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Greenfield Priory was a Cistercian priory in Greenfield, near Aby, Lincolnshire, England. It was founded before the year 1153 by Eudo of Grainsby and Ralf of Aby, and his son, Ranulf earl of Chester was also a benefactor of the house. The bishop visited the priory in 1294 and asked the prioress to resign. Her successor, Cecily de Parys, was not much better, for in 1303 Bishop Dalderby heard that she had been absent from her house for two years, and that it was in danger of serious loss.
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She had admitted an unlicensed chaplain to preach in the church, and counselled her nuns not to report anything amiss at the visitation. The priory was dissolved in 1536 on the grounds it had income of less than £200 per year. The last prioress being Joan Missenden The house was not, however, entirely dismantled at the time of the Lincolnshire Uprising. The king's commissioners, Millicent and Bellow, were still in the priory and busy at their work, when they were dragged out of it by the excited mob.
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The bishop of Lincoln, however, protested. In 1366, many nuns of Sempringham had not received benediction, and as the master, William of Prestwold, refused to listen to the prioress, they petitioned Bishop John Bokyngham, who came to Sempringham, to right them. The number of nuns had then fallen to 67. In 1382, Richard II granted a licence for the master and priors of the order to seize and detain all vagabond canons and lay brothers and, in 1383 and 1390, mandates were issued to the sheriffs and others to arrest an apostate canon.
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Langley Priory, English Heritage: PastScape In 1354 the priory was visited by John Gynwell, Bishop of Lincoln, who recorded there were 12 nuns at the priory. A later visit by William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln, in 1440, reveals the number of nuns had fallen to eight, and that the priory's income had fallen, pushing the nuns £50 into debt. The Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 lists the priory as having an income of £29. 7s. 4½d. In June 1536 the priory is recorded as being home to six nuns and the prioress.
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A site mentioned in Domesday, the mills here were held by the manor of Bignoures and belonged to the Knights of St. John in the Middle Ages, being let at a peppercorn rent to the Prioress of Dartford Nunnery. A wheat mill and a malt mill were released to one George Tasser in 1534. William Vaughan received them from the Crown in 1546 and the mills reverted to the Crown when he died in 1580. The two mills were granted to John Spilman (later Sir John Spilman) by the Crown in 1581.
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Herolt was also vicar of Nuremberg's Dominican convent, the cloister of St Katharine, which he and Nider reformed in 1428, appointing Gertrud Gwichtmacherin as prioress. He was prior at Nuremberg from 1437 to 1443. Herolt's Sermones discipuli de tempore et de sanctis was the most widely reprinted sermon collection of the fifteenth century. Herolt collected exemplary stories for use in sermons, and these story collections - one thematic, one of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and one of miracles of the saints - also circulated in manuscript and were widely reprinted as Promptuaria exemplorum.
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Maria degli Angeli experienced several visions and numerous demonic attacks and staved them off with the aid of her confessor after suffering from these demonic visions for three years. Fontanella became the novice mistress the convent she was stationed at in 1694 and at the same time was made prioress. She was noted for her ardent devotion to Saint Joseph and for her devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. People from all over sought her for advice and this included the likes of King Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia and his wife Anne Marie d'Orléans.
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He faces the center of the panel, flanked by his patron saint, Anthony, who leans on a tau staff with one hand and holds a bible in the other. Ceunic, a hospital brother from 1469 and bursar between 1488 and 1490, kneels to the left behind Seghers. His patron saint, James (identifiable by his attributes of pilgrim's staff and hat), stands behind him.Blum (1969), 88 The right panel shows St Agnes and St Clare standing behind the female donors, Agnes Casembrood, hospital prioress, and sister Clara van Hulson.
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The Priory de Graville, France A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites, for instance), or monasteries of monks or nuns (as with the Benedictines). Houses of canons regular and canonesses regular also use this term, the alternative being "canonry". In pre-Reformation England, if an abbey church was raised to cathedral status, the abbey became a cathedral priory.
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Louise-Marie of FranceAchaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon, Vol. 2, (Publisher Mansut Fils, 4 Rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris, 1825), 154. (15 July 1737 - 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska. She entered the Carmelite convent (now the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis) at Saint-Denis in 1770 under the name of Thérèse of Saint Augustine, and served as prioress in 1773-1779 and 1785-1787.
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The Prioress's Tale, a painting by Edward Coley Burne-Jones The Prioress's Tale () follows The Shipman's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Because of fragmentation of the manuscripts, it is impossible to tell where it comes in ordinal sequence, but it is second in group B2, followed by Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas. The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways. Her portrait suggests she is likely in religious life as a means of social advancement, given her aristocratic manners and mispronounced French.
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He complies and is told of a story by the sickly mother that she left a son named Mateo that was lost years ago and this troubles her soul. Driven by a carnal lust for Matilda, Ambrosio transgresses and he is soon found desiring the innocent Antonia now. He also sees apparitions of the pregnant nun he condemned to death by turning her over to the prioress. Matilda recognizes Ambrosio's new interest in the fair Antonia and uses magic spells to help the monk in his pursuit of her.
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Mostyn was unwilling to leave Antwerp at first, but was encouraged by a vision of Mary that told her "Lierre was the directed way for her to heaven".Bedingfeld 1878, p.53 Following a short period in buildings belonging to the neighbouring Abbey of Bernadine Dames called Nazareth, the community bought their own premises in Lierre and moved in during the summer of 1651. After a period serving as Mistress of Novices, Mostyn was elected as sub-prioress of the community in 1954, three years after the inauguration of the new foundation.
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It held the status of a manor in its own right, and the tenants of its copyholds in Wix were obliged to perform manorial service. By the time of the Peasants' Revolt (1381), this was generating friction, and during the revolt, the priory was attacked by its angry villagers, who destroyed its Manorial rolls which detailed their obligations to it. After the Revolt had ended, those responsible were evicted by the prioress, who then fined each one before allowing them to return. The priory remained in operation until the 16th Century, though became increasingly rundown.
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The developments made throughout the history of the Royal Alcázar of Madrid affected not just the building itself, but also the surrounding area, with a series of developments within its grounds. The Royal Stables were built to the south of the Alcázar, incorporating the rooms of the Royal Armoury. To the north and west of the Alcázar lay the Picadero plaza and the Gardens (or Orchard) of the Prioress, which connected the palace with the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation. To the east, the House Treasury was built.
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The Monk is one of many Gothic novels that criticises the Catholic Church and Catholic tradition. Lewis's condemnation of the Church is apparent throughout the novel in his characterisation of Catholic clergy members, as well as his treatment of Catholic superstition. Ambrosio and the Prioress represent all that is seen as wrong with the Catholic Church. The vow of celibacy, which many Protestant writers at the time condemned as unnatural, contributes significantly to Ambrosio's repressed sexuality, which in turn leads to the heinous acts he commits against Antonia.
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He cancelled the election and, having heard of the suitability of Alice for the post, re-appointed her on his own authority and mandated his own chaplain to induct her. Northburgh also instigated a canonical visitation of White Ladies while Alice de Harley was prioress, probably in 1338. She was censured for expensae voluptariae, expenditure on pleasure, relating to her extravagant dress and the keeping of canes venatici, greyhounds or other hunting dogs, in the convent, and for a general laxity of discipline.Collections for a History of Staffordshire, volume 1, p.
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The earliest historical date on record is 1300, the year in which the monastery was founded in the province of Teruel by the Marquise, Doña Gil de Rada. In 1306 the community was incorporated as part of the female branch of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, a military Order founded in Jerusalem. The Prior General of the Knights confirmed the prioress as Religious Superior of the community. The Spanish canonesses still live in their ancient monastery in Zaragoza, built in the Mudéjar style when they moved there later in the 14th century.
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The Priory of Sion in Bilzen was founded in 1634 as a daughter house of the Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Hasselt. Mother Helena d'Enckevoert, Prioress of the house in Maastricht and St. Agathe in Liège, established the community. A school for poor girls was also established at Sion, which remained in operation until the monastery was closed in 1798 by the armies of the First French Republic during their occupation of the Low Countries. The 20 sisters were expelled and they retreated to the béguinage in Hasselt or to their families.
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In 1645 she married Henry Thimelby from a large recusant family, whose sister Katherine, also a poet, was the wife of Gertrude's brother, Herbert. In 1658, after the deaths of her husband and only child, Getrude became a nun at St. Monica's Convent, Louvain, where her sister-in- law, Winefrid Thimelby, a notable letter-writer, was the Prioress. Sister Gertrude died in 1668. The Aston and Thimelby families and their literary circle exchanged and collected manuscript poems and letters, known today through the volumes edited by their descendants.
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Madelina, Agnes's foster-sister and maid at the Baron's castle, tells how the Castle of Lindenberg is haunted by the ghost of a young Prioress, whom the Baron of the time fell in love with at Lindenberg. When he became persistent in his attentions, she seized his dagger and stabbed herself through the heart. Now, at dead of night on All Hallows' Eve, the ghostly Spectre-Nun wanders through the castle dressed in white, with dagger in hand. Raymond forms a plan to elope with Agnes. Act 1, Scene 2.
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Rumours implied they had been seeing religious and secular men in the nunnery and their behaviour led to the house being considered one of disrepute. The priory was not dissolved by the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act in 1535, but continued for worship and hospitality. Cecilia Topcliffe was the prioress, and the convent consisted of the nuns who had been there on 4 February 1536, who continued as before the passing of the Act. In 1539, after the Second Act of Dissolution, Joan Kyppes surrendered the priory, which had eight inmates.
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1160-1185 by the Countess Gundreda, wife or widow of Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, upon lands of her maritagium, and was confirmed to her and her second husband Roger de Glanville by King Henry II. It was dissolved in about 1536. At the time of the suppression it consisted of a prioress and 11 nuns. The priory church, the Church of the Holy Cross, became the Church of St Mary, the parish church in Bungay.Church of St Mary (including Ruins of Benedictine Convent), Bungay, British Listed Buildings.
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Monasticon Anglicanum, volume 4, p. 112-3, no. 5. It was also agreed that Alice de Hely, a Farewell nun at that time residing at Langley, would remain in place for five years and then return to the mother house. The dispute flared up again in subsequent decades and under a composition, embodied in a charter issued by Prioress Serena of Farewell in 1248, Langley was to pay 4 marks annually, with a penalty for non- payment of 40 shillings.Monasticon Anglicanum, volume 4, p. 112-3, no. 6.
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Sister Catherine Wybourne OSB is a Benedictine nun, prioress of Howton Grove Priory, Hereford, (formerly at Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred), UK and a well known commentator in the UK media with an internet presence as the Digitalnun. She has written on the finance sector —her former employment was as a banker— and on the digital age. She is a blogger and IT worker and writes on faith issues more generally, especially monasticism and the Rule of Saint Benedict. She contributes a weekly column to The Universe, a Catholic newspaper.
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Initially, the intention was to have his cousin, Mother Mary Margaret, lead the new foundation, but she died in 1784. Instead the small community was led by Mother Bernardina Teresa Xavier of St. Joseph, O.C.D. (born Ann Teresa Matthews), who was to serve as prioress. She was accompanied by her nieces, Sisters Mary Eleanora of St. Francis Xavier, O.C.D., and Mary Aloysia of the Blessed Trinity, O.C.D. (born as Susanna Matthews and Ann Teresa Matthews). Neale chose the final participant, Sister Clare Joseph of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D. (born Frances Dickinson), an Englishwoman.
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For this reason, in 1793 a new abbess was not elected, only a prioress. In 1798 the abbey was seized by the French and sold. The sisters were dispersed, but after the Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII were able to buy back a piece of ground immediately adjacent to the site of the former abbey, and began their work again, including the management of a boarding school. World War I forced the sisters to flee on 31 October 1914 and to take refuge in England.
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Melksham developed at a ford across the River Avon and the name is presumed to derive from "meolc", the Old English for milk, and "ham", a village. On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the name is spelt both Melkesam (for the hundred) and Milsham (for the town itself). Melksham is also the name of the Royal forest that occupied the surrounding of the area in the Middle Ages. p222 In 1539 the prioress and nuns of Amesbury surrendered to the king their Melksham estates, which they had held for some 250 years.
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In that year he went to war with Bernard de Marestaing, who was bribed by Longuebrune, by then prioress of Bolauc, not to burn Simorre. In 1154 Bohemond had to borrow money from his mother in order to bribe Géraud d'Esparbès, the abbot of Saramon whom he had expelled, from plundering Astarac. Bohemond married Rouge (Rubea) de Marsan, daughter of Peter I and Beatrice III of Bigorre. The couple donated property to the abbot of Berdoues in 1172, at which point they already had three children, all daughters: Mary, Marquese (Marchesia), and Bonnefemme (Bonefemina).
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When Thérèse entered the convent Mother Marie was 54, a woman of changeable humour, jealous of her authority, used sometimes in a capricious manner; this had for effect, a certain laxity in the observance of established rules. "In the sixties and seventies of the [nineteenth] century an aristocrat in the flesh counted for far more in a petty bourgeois convent than we can realize nowadays... the superiors appointed Marie de Gonzague to the highest offices as soon as her noviciate was finished... in 1874 began the long series of terms as Prioress".
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The formula for profession contained in the Constitutions of Montargis Priory (1250) requires that nuns pledge obedience to God, the Blessed Virgin, their prioress and her successors according to the Rule of Saint Augustine and the institute of the order, until death. The clothing of the sisters consisted of a white tunic and scapular, a leather belt, a black mantle, and a black veil. Candidates to profession were questioned to reveal whether they were actually married women who had merely separated from their husbands. Their intellectual abilities were also tested.
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In 1970, health problems forced Beckett to abandon teaching and to return to England. She obtained papal permission to leave her congregation and to become a consecrated virgin and hermit. She began living in a caravan on the grounds of a Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk, and her caravan was later replaced by a mobile home. Besides having received the Carmelite prioress and a nun who brought her provisions, she dedicated her life to solitude and prayer, but allotted two hours of work per day to earn her living.
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Following their inspection, they reported the nuns failed to fast and ate meat every day. Furthermore, the prioress, Alice Wakeley, regularly received a Cistercian monk and a lay clerk in her rooms to indulge in drinking sessions. There was much local gossip, and it appears to have been common knowledge that the nuns shared beds, apparently because the main dormer was structurally unsafe. The bishop instructed the nuns were to use separate beds, and that no lay persons, "especially scholars of Oxford", were to be allowed admittance to the priory.
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They had told him all was well,"omnia bene", within Littlemore; he discovered this was not the case. Investigators such as Horde were expected to be thorough, "examining each member of the house, going into the minutest details, and taking great pains to arrive at the truth". Horde reported the prioress, Katherine Wells, had had an illegitimate daughter by Richard Hewes, a chaplain from Kent, who was probably responsible for the priory's sacraments. Thomson suggests this had clearly happened some years earlier, but had been either "concealed or deliberately overlooked by the authorities".
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She reported that Elizabeth Wynter "played and romped" in the cloister with men from Oxford, and, aided by her sisters, had defied the prioress's attempts to correct her. For example, the prioress explained she had put Elizabeth in the parlour stocks only for three of her colleagues, the two other Wynter sisters and one Anna Wilye, to break the door open and release her. Wells must have locked Wynter in, as her rescuers broke the lock as well. The four of them then set fire to the stocks and barricaded the door against Wells.
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It is from the archives of this abbey that a good part of the information we have on García Fernández comes: some 60 documents referring directly to him or to his wife Mayor Arias. Female members of the family continued to hold key posts in the abbey long after his death. The first abbess was Marina Arias, probably Mayor's sister, and García's daughters Marina and Mayor also led the community. The latter was still the abbess in 1286 when two granddaughters of the founder occupied the posts of prioress and precentrix.
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Contemporary churchman John Bale dubbed it Spiritualium meretricum cœnobium (lit. "A community of spiritual harlots"), while both King Henry VII and Pope Julius II consented to its dissolution. The College's full name is "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge". When founded in 1496, the College took over the buildings of the nunnery: namely the Chapel, and the Cloister attached to it; the nuns’ refectory, which became the College Hall; and the former lodging of the prioress, which became the Master’s Lodge.
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There is no actual evidence for or against his statements. But unhappily there is nothing at all improbable in the story of Lord Mordaunt and the charters. The patron of a house so small and so poor would be in a position to take a very high hand with the little convent, especially as one or two of the nuns would very likely be members of his own family. However this may be, the house was certainly dissolved under the Act of 1536, and a pension of £7 assigned to the prioress, Elinor Warren.
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The dam consists of an earth embankment, with a core of rolled clay, and it is filled by water pumped from an intake on the River Usk at Prioress Mill, Rhadyr. It was opened in two stages in spring 1964 and spring 1965. Unlike previous reservoirs, the water was not used exclusively by Cardiff Corporation, but was split between five undertakings. Cardiff were allocated per day, Newport and South Monmouthshire Water Board per day, and Abertillery & District Water Board and Pontypool & District Water Company were allocated per day each.
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The Mother Prioress (Greer Garson) later admonishes Sister Ann for allowing the young girl's secret to be made known to the father. Robert, whose attraction to Sister Ann has been rekindled, obtains permission from church authorities to have her record an album; "Dominique" becomes a worldwide hit. Ed Sullivan brings a television crew to Brussels to film Sister Ann for his show; he gives the order a jeep for their African mission as compensation. Sister Ann becomes confused by her success and by Robert's personal interest in her, and she seeks counsel from Father Clementi.
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The Count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra, took the fortress in AD 1001 and incorporated it to Anjou. Fulk, who was one of the first great builders of Medieval castles, modified it, and the fortress remained under the control of Anjou, never taken, for more than 150 years. In 1101, during the installation of the Fontevraud community, the abbey of Fontevraud depended on Gautier I of Montsoreau, a direct vassal of the count of Anjou. Gautier's mother-in-law, Hersende de Champagne, was the first grand-prioress during the life of Robert d'Arbrissel.
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Brought up in a privileged environment, she had a governess and grew up in a stately home. In 1933 she became a nun in the Canoness Regular of the Lateran order (who follow the Rule of St. Augustine) and took the name "Sister Mary Barbara". She resided at an enclosed monastery in Sussex and taught French and history at the attached school. Permission for the project of illustrating Bunnykins tableware for Royal Doulton was granted by the prioress on condition that there be no financial gain from the project for either Bailey or the priory.
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As the 14th century closed, Dame Sybil became embroiled in some notable events. Firstly, in May 1398, some 7 years after her election as prioress, an inquiry was ordered by the King into the government of the priory with a view to reforming it according to the ordinances and constitutions. Among other indications of indiscipline was the birth of a child in 1398 to a nun of Amesbury, Margaret Greenfield,Eileen E. Power, Medieval English Nunneries c 1275 to 1535, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1922, p. 455. but in general motives and outcome are unknown.
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Sumptermead Ait at the downstream end Sumptermead Ait is an island in the River Thames in England on the reach above Old Windsor Lock, near Datchet Berkshire. The island is a thin wooded strip separated by a narrow channel on the Datchet side. In 1995 a Thames side path was created here for the diverted Thames Path. The island has a long history, being recorded as "Sondremede" in 1263, when given to the prioress of St Helens in London, and "Saunder-meade" in 1586, when leased to the queens laundress.Fred.
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Two religious figures who were close to the queen Margaret of Austria, the Franciscan friar Juan de Santa María and Mariana de San José, prioress of the Monastery of la Encarnación in Madrid, used their influence to undermine Rodrigo Calderón. Finally in 1612, he was dismissed as secretary, but maintained his position with the Duke of Lerma who was in residence at St Paul's Cathedral, London throughout 1612. The queen Margaret had already died during child labor in October 1611. This led to accusations that she had been bewitched by Rodrigo Calderón.
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The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Kentucky), October 7, 1858, page 1 Ten Broeck was the first American to ship a stable of horses to England, and Harlan was the second. Harlan made a number of famous, successful, large wagers in England. Harlan won a $5,000 wager that Jack Rossitter could trot 18, 19, and then 20 miles in an hour, a great feet for a trotting horse in England at that time. Harlan won $40,000 betting on Ten Broeck's horse, Prioress, when she won the Czarowitz stakes at 200 and 100 to 1.
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In the second episode, a young man, Masetto da Lamporecchio, is encouraged by some nuns in a convent to have sex with them. In fact, the young man had already had this idea, and pretended to be deaf and dumb. The sisters prove insatiable, and the young man finally breaks his silence to protest that he cannot keep up with their demands. The mother prioress declares his sudden ability to speak a miracle from God, but this is merely an excuse to keep the young man at the convent.
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Maud was born in about 1310, a daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth. She had an older sister, Blanche, Baroness Wake of Liddell, and four younger sisters, Joan, Baroness Mowbray, Isabel of Lancaster, prioress of Amesbury, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel, and Mary, Baroness Percy. Her only brother was Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. His daughter was Blanche of Lancaster, who would in 1359 become the first wife of John of Gaunt, and in 1367 the mother of the future King Henry IV of England.
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Through the military service of their fathers, several Mecklenburg daughters were born in Merseburg, Eisleben and Neustadt an der Aisch. The grave stone of the prioress Melanie von Hobe lies at the graveyard of Dobbertin. The merchant, farmer and forester as well as Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Johann Caspar Melchior Balthasar Herbert Hubertus Siegfried von Hobe (1915–2001), was the adopted son of his uncle Joseph Monforts, and as such took the name "Monforts von Hobe" from 1 October 1941. This line still exists today.
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It is likely that Keldholme saw de Pykering as an intruder, and it seems to have reacted against her in much the same way as to her predecessor. In response, the archbishop attempted to quash the nuns' rebelliousness. Individuals identified by him and his officials were exiled to surrounding priories, while at one point Keldholme itself was placed under interdict and the nuns threatened with excommunication. The convent was not deterred: the campaign against de Pykering continued until eventually Greenfield allowed the prioress to resign and the nuns to elect one of their number again.
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Keldholme itself had suffered two recent resignations of its Prioresses in 1294 and 1301, by Beatrice of Grendale and Emma de Stapleton respectively. The priory's reputation was further damaged by suspicions that the Sheriff of Cleveland, Geoffrey of Eston, was engaging in sexual activities with nuns in both Keldholme and Arden priories. De Stapleton's 1301 resignation was probably directly related to Archbishop Melton's episcopal visitation of the same year, in the course of which he discovered malpractice. As a result, the priory was without a prioress for the following seven years.
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While the nuns, with the exception of Sr. Olivia Darrell, eventually made their way to Hengrave, some died soon after the trip. In the years following, pupils of the convent began making their first profession. However, because laws made under the rule of Charles II in 1660 to re-establish the position of the Church of England, government officials inquired about whether the convent had received any new members, which was not allowed. This is another aspect of More’s life as Prioress that is not particularly uncommon around this time.
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In 1972 Bishop Remi J. De Roo of the Diocese of Victoria, British Columbia met with the General Chapter of the Federation of St. Gertrude and requested, "that the Benedictines return to Vancouver Island, BC so that their spirituality might be shared with the people in the area." In response the House of Bread Monastery was established as a Dependent Priory of the Queen of Angels Monastery, Mt. Angel, Oregon. In 1993 House of Bread Monastery was incorporated into the Federation of St. Gertrude and Sister Jean Ann Berning, O.S.B. was elected first Prioress.
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She was born at Beyton, Suffolk, near Bury St Edmunds, on 4 November 1668. Feeling called to the monastic life, Burton went to the Spanish Netherlands. There she made her religious profession in the monastery of the English Discalced Carmelite nuns at Antwerp in 1694, being known in that community as Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels, O.C.D. She acquired a reputation for sanctity, was several times elected prioress of her monastery, where she died on 9 February 1714. A Life of her, collected from her own writings and other sources by Father Thomas Hunter, remained in manuscript till 1876.
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Margaret Frazer, born Gail Lynn Brown (November 26, 1946 – February 4, 2013), was an American historical novelist, best known for more than twenty historical mystery novels and a variety of short stories. The pen name was originally shared by Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld in their collaboration on The Novice's Tale, the first of the Sister Frevisse books featuring the Benedictine nun Dame Frevisse. Their collaboration came to an end with The Murderer's Tale, the sixth book in the series. Starting with the Edgar Award-nominated The Prioress' Tale, the Margaret Frazer pen name was used exclusively by Gail Frazer.
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The provost, Matthias von dem Knesebeck, deposed the prioress Bertha Hoyer and her subprioress, and installed his own candidate, the former Ebstorf nun Sophia von Bodenteich.Nolte, Quellen (1932), 127-128. The reform included an enhanced curriculum in matters of Catholic doctrine, a changed liturgy in conformity with the reform, and a centralized and communal intake of daily meals to strengthen the convent’s isolation from the outside world and to better control the required abstinence from meat on Fridays and during Lent. The latter arguably provided the greatest logistical difficulty, as both the kitchen and the refectory had to be rebuilt.
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After an absence of nine months, Judy the Beauty returned to the track and finished second in an allowance race over at Churchill Downs in June. In August she returned to Grade I company for the Prioress Stakes over six furlongs and finished second, beaten a nose by Emma's Encore. On her only other appearance of the season she finished second again, beaten one and a quarter lengths by the four-year-old Dust And Diamond in the Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park on September 22. In all three of her races in 2012 she was ridden by Joel Rosario.
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That year, he bought a house in the city in Norrköping and donated it to the Vadstena adliga jungfrustift comity, who decided to open a local branch of the convent there. Though called a local branch of the "mother convent", it was in fact the only functioning stift in Sweden, as the Vadstena adliga jungfrustift continued to function only as a foundation. The Norrköping jungfrustift consisted of an abbess (though referred to as prioress) and six unmarried noblewomen with the title stiftsjungfru or stiftsfröken. Except for the actual members of the convent, the establishment functioned as house for various female paying guests.
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In the mid-1330s, during his visits to various communities of Dominican nuns and Beguines, Suso became acquainted with Elsbeth Stagel, prioress of the monastery of Dominican nuns in Töss. The two became close friends. She translated some of his Latin writings into German, collected and preserved most of his extant letters, and at some point began gathering the materials that Suso eventually put together into his Life of the Servant. Suso shared in the exile of the Dominican community from Constance between 1339 and 1346, during the most heated years of the quarrel between Pope John XXII and the Holy Roman Emperor.
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The garden in Carmel, Lipa with the vine on which the Virgin appeared in 1948. On August 18, 1948, Teresita Castillo—then a postulant at the monastery—noticed a heavenly odour, and upon entering her room saw a beautiful Lady in white who spoke to her: "Do not fear my daughter, He who loves above all things has sent me. I come with a message…" The Lady asked Sister Teresita to wash and kiss the feet of her Prioress, and drink the used water afterwards. The Lady said that the washing was a "sign of humility and obedience".
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The abbey was a double monastery, with both a male section of 25 monks and a female section of 60 nuns. The monks were organised under the General Confessor and the nuns under a prioress, while the abbey as a whole was organised under an abbess, who was elected by both the monks and the nuns. The abbey was greatly favored by the royal house and nobility and became the spiritual center of the country as well as the greatest landowner in Sweden. The abbey was known to manage a hospital and retirement home, which is recorded from 1401.
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Alexander Home of North Berwick (floruit 1570-1597) was a Scottish landowner and Provost of Edinburgh. His surname is sometimes spelled "Hume". He was a son of Patrick Home of Polwarth (d. 1578) and Elizabeth Hepburn (d. 1571) daughter of Patrick Hepburn of Waughton, and a younger brother of the courtier and poet Patrick Hume of Polwarth (d. 1599). He obtained the lands of North Berwick priory from his younger sister Margaret Home, the last Prioress, in 1562. The English diplomat Thomas Randolph mentioned him as a mutual friend of the envoy Nicolas Elphinstone in 1571.Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1569-1571, vol.
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The two most senior lay staff were sacked: Annabel de de Hervill, the cellaress or purveyor of food and drink, and Robert de Herst, the keeper of the temporalities or estate manager. Northburgh froze admissions to the priory and forbade the prioress taking bribes from prospective members of the community which presumably had happened to this point. Northburgh was also forced to reiterate many details of the basic monastic disciplines of poverty, chastity and obedience. One of the nuns was receiving a rental income for personal use and was ordered to share it with the whole house.
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A letter was sent on 11 October 1538 to Thomas Legh, who was dealing with the surrender of Black Ladies for the Court of Augmentations, stating that the lease of the house and farm was granted to Thomas Giffard of Stretton (in Penkridge), a gentleman usher of the chamber and the son of Sir John Giffard of Chillington.Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, volume 13, part 2, no. 586. Legh, who had earned a reputation for his high-handed treatment of monks and nuns, took over from Prioress Isabel on 16 October 1538.Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, volume 13, part 2, no, 627.
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Blessed Marianna Fontanella (7 January 1661 – 16 December 1717) – in religious Maria degli Angeli – was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Discalced Carmelites. Fontanella studied with the Cistercians as a child and entered the Discalced Carmelites despite the protests of her mother and siblings – she soon became a noted abbess and prioress and in 1703 inaugurated a new convent she herself oversaw the establishment of. Her beatification cause commenced under Pope Innocent XIII in 1722 and she was titled as Venerable in 1778 under Pope Pius VI. Her beatification received ratification in 1865 under Pope Pius IX.
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In 1898, the Apostolic Vicar of Denmark, Johannes von Euch, approached the monastery of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Innsbruck, Austria, with the invitation to establish a monastic community in his prelature. During 1902-3, with the financial backing of Baroness Maria von Wacken Hartig, the Sisters acquired two parcels of land in Copenhagen. Construction on them, however, was not begun until 1913, and lasted into the following year. In June 1914, a group of seven Sisters left Austria under the leadership of Prioress M. Birgitta von Wacken Hartig, and the monastery was formally established on the following 8 October.
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Fradenburg challenges Hawkins' "elision of the 'literal' or 'carnal' level of meaning in favour of the spiritual"Fradenburg 203. by lingering on those moments in the tale, such as the "litel clergeon's" transgressive rote memorisation of the Alma Redemptoris, in which this elision fails, or succeeds only ambiguously. She traces the impossibility of ultimately separating and opposing Old and New Laws in the "Prioress' Tale" back to a tension between letter and spirit internal to Paul's discourse itself.Fradenburg 221 Fradenburg gestures at a larger project of turning "patristic exegesis" against itself to read the contradictions revealed by the theological subtext of the tale.
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The Sisters were founded in Mulagumudu, South India, then under the rule of the British Raj, in 1897 by Mother Marie Louise De Meester, a canoness regular from Ypres, Belgium. Always feeling a strong interest in the foreign missions of the Catholic Church, with the blessing of her prioress, De Meester left her native country to respond to the invitation of the Discalced Carmelite friars in India to care for orphans and abandoned children. Her sole companion was Dame Marie Ursule (civil name Germaine De Jonckheere), a novice of that same monastery. They arrived in India on November 7, 1897.
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He claimed that she had refused to pay rent he was owed, for 21 years. When confronted by the Abbot's bailiff, Prioress Isabel is reported to have said: > "Wenes these churles to overlede me or sue the law agayne me? They shall not > be so hardy but they shall avye upon their bodies and be nailed with > arrowes; for I am a gentlewoman comen of the greatest of Lancashire and > Cheshire; and that they shall know right well." St Werburgh's Church, Derby Isabella de Stanley was closely "related to the nobleman who espoused the mother of Henry VII".
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The nunnery was founded at Lekeley by Henry son of Arthur son of Godard, lord of Millom, in the late twelfth century. It was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and its nuns followed the Benedictine rule. The nunnery was never prosperous, in common with other religious associations of women in the region, due to the unsettled nature of the area in part caused by the proximity to the Scottish border. To help, in 1227 Archbishop Walter Gray granted the appropriation of the church of St. Michael of Irton to the prioress and convent of Lekeley to alleviate their poverty.
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Agnes's breaking of her vow is seen by the Prioress as an unforgivable crime, which drives her to punish Agnes so severely. Lewis also appears to mock Catholic superstition through use of iconoclasts repeatedly over the course of the novel, such as when Lorenzo moves a statue of the virgin St. Clare to reveal the chamber in which Agnes is being kept prisoner. This demystification of idols makes light of Catholic superstition in relation to statues and sacred objects. Lewis's treatment of the Catholic Church clearly shows that he harbours negative sentiments about the Church's activities.
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Mother Bertranda, O.P. (née Janina Siestrzewitowska; 1900–1988), later known as Anna Borkowska, was a Polish cloistered Dominican nun who served as the prioress of her monastery in Kolonia Wileńska near Wilno (now Pavilnys near Vilnius, Lithuania). She was a graduate of the University of Kraków who had entered the monastery after her studies. During World War II, under her leadership, the nuns of the monastery sheltered 17 young Jewish activists from Vilnius Ghetto and helped the Jewish Partisan Organization (FPO) by smuggling weapons. In recognition of this, in 1984 she was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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For example, the expanding population and rising market of the 13th century meant that pasture land was brought under increasingly close management, which posed dangers for small landholders and tenants, like White Ladies. The priory must have acquired a small estate at Rudge, near Pattingham but within Shropshire, some time before 1292 as in that year Prioress Sarra (Sarah) sued William de Rugg, the lord of the manor for denying her use of common pasture.Eyton, volume 3, p. 208-9. Unlike some of the other cases brought to court, this was not a fictitious issue intended to create a record.
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The Whorwoods purchased the reversion not just the site and demesne of the priory, but those of a number of other former White Ladies estates and other monastic property in the region. These included some on 21 and 31 year leases, granted by the Crown in 1538 but some much on much earlier, very long leases at low rents. In 1471 Prioress Joan Shirley had let a messuage in Overton, Shropshire for 99 years at a rent of 6s. 8d., while in 1484 she had let another at Humphreston in Albrighton for 81 years at 7s. 8d.
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On February 15, 1956, she debuted as a mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan in a brilliant portrayal of Marina in Boris Godunov under Dimitri Mitropoulos. October, 1957, was the beginning of a long career in London at the Royal Opera House. Her debut as Carmen was a success and, in time, she was heard as Amneris (Aida), Marina (Boris Godunov), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten and the Old Prioress in Dialogues of the Carmelites. In the Zeffirelli-Giulini production of Falstaff, her Mistress Quickly became the model for this role.
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Returning to Covent Garden in 1959/60, Sinclair added some new roles to her repertoire – Annina (Der Rosenkavalier, in Georg Solti's Covent Garden début, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sena Jurinac), Bradamante (Alcina, directed and designed by Franco Zeffirelli, with Joan Sutherland in the title role), Theodosia (Die schweigsame Frau), the Old Prioress (Dialogues des Carmélites), Marfa (Khovanshchina), Emilia (Otello) and the Marquise de Birkenfeld (La fille du régiment, with Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti). She also sang the Marquise at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Her other international appearances included the title role in Lully's Armide at Bordeaux in 1955.
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Dame Susan Hawley (Mother Mary of the Conception) was the foundress of the surviving English branch of the canonesses (born at New Brentford, Middlesex, 1622; died at Liège, 1706), having been professed at Tongeren. In 1642 she left with four other women for Liège, to establish a monastery there for English women. By 1656 there was a sufficient number of professed canonesses that a canonical election could be held, in which she was elected prioress; she ruled with rare prudence until her resignation in 1697. The community was able to provide an education for the daughters of Catholic families under the Penal Laws.
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Seventeen years later, at the request of Bishop Patrick Moran, who then had charge of the Eastern Vicariate of South Africa, she with five others began their work at Port Elizabeth, 23 November 1867. She served for 25 years as prioress of Rosemary Convent, which she had founded. The diamond jubilee of her religious profession was celebrated in 1910, and a Mother Rose scholarship was founded as an appropriate memorial of her long devotion to the work of education. Whitty's good health continued till within a month or two of her death in her 80th year.
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Other English equivalents for antiphonary are antiphonar (still in reputable use) and antiphoner (considered obsolete by some English lexicographers, but still sometimes used in the early 20th century). In the "Prioress' Tale" of Chaucer it occurs in the form antiphonere: :He Alma Redemptoris herde synge / As children lerned hir antiphonere. The word Antiphonary had in the earlier Middle Ages sometimes a more general, sometimes a more restricted meaning. In its present meaning it has also been variously and insufficiently defined as a "Collection of antiphons in the notation of Plain Chant", and as a liturgical book containing the antiphons "and other chants".
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St Mary's Church, Bromley St Leonard's The priory was destroyed during the first phase of the Dissolution in 1536, along with many other smaller religious house. Its books were moved to Westminster Abbey to join the library for the new Diocese of Westminster and the church retained to form a new parish church. Sybil Kirke was the last prioress - she was granted an annual pension of £15 and allowed to retain 35 shillings 2 pence worth of Priory goods. Initially she was also granted the retention of some of the priory's demesne lands to cover her household expenses.
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The university has had six Adrian Dominican Sisters serve as president since its inception: Mother M. Gerald Barry,Prioress-General, Adrian Dominican Sisters 1940–61; Mother M. Genevieve Weber, 1962–63; Sister M. Dorothy Browne, 1963–74; Sister M. Trinita Flood, 1974–81; Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, 1981–2004; and Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD, 2004–2019. Mike Allen, Ph.D. began his tenure as the seventh president of Barry University on July 1, 2019. He is the first man and lay person to lead Barry University since its founding in 1940. The motherhouse of the sisters is in Adrian, Michigan.
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441 (Internet Archive). Successive escheats necessitated the renewal of the priory's endowments. In 1289 Prioress Beatrice conveyed her right of advowson of North Creak and Combs churches to Roger and Sarra, who in turn granted or regranted to her the manor of Flixton and moiety of the church, the advowson of Helmingham church (with land), a house with 26 acres in Wilby, Suffolk, a house with 29 acres in North Creak, and the advowsons of Dunston and Fundenhall, in pure alms.Blomefield, 'North Creke', p. 72; Final Concord, 17 Edward I, P.R.O. CP25(1)/285/23, no. 66.
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As a two-year-old, she won four of five races including two stakes races in the Playpen Stakes and the Smart Angle Stakes. At age three, she separated herself from every other sprinter in North America by recording eight wins in nine races. That year (1989), she entered the Breeders' Cup Sprint as the second choice in the morning line and finished second to Ogden Phipps' Dancing Spree. Among her eight stakes wins in 1989 were the grade one Test Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and two wins in grade two races, the Genuine Risk Handicap and the Prioress Stakes.
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Theobald's sisters built the priory at Campsey and established the community there with Joan de Valoines as the first prioress. The priory was in existence by November 1195 when John Lestrange, in a final concord with Robert de Mortimer, noted that with Robert's approval he had already given the church of Tottington, Norfolk, in free and perpetual alms to the church of the Blessed Mary at Campsey and to the nuns serving God there.W. Rye, A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk: in the Reigns of Richard I, John, Henry III (Agas H. Goose & Co., Norwich 1885), p. 2, no.
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The Countess returned with his body and he was buried in the chapel of the Annunciation in Campsey Priory church.D. Allen, 'A newly-discovered survival from the muniments of Maud of Lancaster's Chantry', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History XLI Part 2 (2006), pp. 151-74 (Suffolk Institute pdf). Maud, whose sister Isabel was prioress of Amesbury Priory,'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey, later priory, of Amesbury', in R.B. Pugh and E. Crittall (edd.), A History of the County of Wiltshire Vol. 3 (London 1956), pp. 242-59 (British History Online accessed 22 August 2017).
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Rosal was frustrated with the religious standards the Bethlemites lived with but despite her frustration was appointed as the prioress of her convent in 1855. In that role she attempted to restore dedication to the original religious standards of her order and the resulting rancor with established members of her order caused her to found a new convent of the Bethlemite Sisters in Quetzeltenango in 1851. Her second confessor around this stage was the Jesuit priest Ignacio Taboada. Rosal's progress at reform in Quetzeltenango was interrupted when Justo Rufino Barrios became the nation's president and began expelling members of religious orders.
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By 1973 the community of Benedictine nuns of the Abbey of Viboldone, near Milan, which had been established in 1941 to care for the needy children of wartime Italy, had grown to the point that they considered opening a new foundation. They were offered the facilities of the former bishop's residence on San Giulio Island for this, which they accepted. Six nuns were chosen to undertake this enterprise, under the direction of Mother Anna Maria Cànopi, O.S.B., who was appointed as the first prioress of the new monastery. Within fifteen years the small community had expanded so much that new quarters were needed.
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Queen Margaret was "melancholic" and unhappy about the influence of Duke, whom she considered corrupt, over her husband, and continually fought him for influence over the king. In this conflict, she was supported by her favourite Mariana de San José, prioress of the Monasteria la Encarnación, her husband's confessor Father Luis de Aliaga, and her daughter Maria Anna's confessor, the Franciscan friar Juan de Santa María - who was felt by contemporaries to have an excessive influence over the King at the end of his life.Sánchez, p.97. The Duke of Lerma was eventually removed from power in 1618, though only after Margaret's death.
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The nuns were esteemed by St Charles Borromeo. Another group of cloistered "Nuns of St Ambrose", also called the Annunciatae (Italian: Annunziate) of Lombardy or "Sisters of St Marcellina", were founded in 1408 by three young women of Pavia, Dorothea Morosini, Eleonora Contarini, and Veronica Duodi. Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia. One of the nuns in this group was Saint Catharine Fieschi Adorno, who died on September 14, 1510.
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Chaucer uses the same meter throughout almost all of his tales, with the exception of Sir Thopas and his prose tales. It is a decasyllable line, probably borrowed from French and Italian forms, with riding rhyme and, occasionally, a caesura in the middle of a line. His meter would later develop into the heroic meter of the 15th and 16th centuries and is an ancestor of iambic pentameter. He avoids allowing couplets to become too prominent in the poem, and four of the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme royal.
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In 1956, George Abbott and Harold Prince cast Kuhlmann as Meg in the national tour of Damn Yankees. She left the tour in early 1957 to marry Hugh Evans, an executive at Yachting and Boating magazine. That same year, Kuhlmann performed two more operas with NBC: Desideria in Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street and the devout Mother Marie in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, with Elaine Malbin as Blanche, Patricia Neway as the Old Prioress and Leontyne Price as Mme. Lidoine. In 1961, Kuhlmann made her last original NBC Opera telecast in Leonard Kastle's Deseret as Brigham Young's eldest wife, Sarah.
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All Saints' Church had a priory hospital attached to it. The Tudor historian Richard Grafton stated that the prioress who murdered Robin Hood buried the outlaw beside the road, > Where he had used to rob and spoyle those that passed that way ... and the > cause why she buryed him there was, for that common strangers and > travailers, knowing and seeing him there buryed, might more safely and > without feare take their journeys that way, which they durst not do in the > life of the sayd outlaes.Grafton, Richard, A Chronicle at Large (London: > 1569) p. 84 in Early English Books Online.
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Similar numbers were protected and then discovered in the convents of the Sisters of the Divine Saviour and the Order of the Divine Love, with many of the Jews dragged out and murdered by the Arrow Cross. The prioress of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Union was captured and tortured for sheltering Jews in her hospital. Despite warnings, she resumed her rescue efforts in the apartment of the Prelate Arnold Pataky. Hundreds more Jews were saved at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the home of the Sisters of Mercyof Szatmar and the Convent of Sacre Coeur.
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Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, published in 1653 helped popularise fly fishing as a sport. Woodcut by Louis Rhead The early evolution of fishing as recreation is not clear. For example, there is anecdotal evidence for fly fishing in Japan, however, fly fishing was likely to have been a means of survival, rather than recreation. The earliest English essay on recreational fishing was published in 1496, by Dame Juliana Berners, the prioress of the Benedictine Sopwell Nunnery. The essay was titled Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle,Berners, Dame Juliana (1496) A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle (transcription by Risa S. Bear).
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Although the point in history where fishing could first be said to be recreational is not clear,Schullery, Paul Fly fishing History: Beginnings: Aelian Lives it is clear that recreational fishing had fully arrived with the publication of The Compleat Angler. The earliest English essay on recreational fishing was published in 1496, shortly after the invention of the printing press. The authorship of this was attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, the prioress of the Benedictine Sopwell Nunnery. The essay was titled Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle,Berners, Dame Juliana (1496) A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle (transcription by Risa S. Bear).
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Somerled's daughter Bethoc would become the first Prioress of Iona, while his grandsons were the first of the lines of Clan Donald and Mac Dougall. It was around this time that Clan MacInnes was awarded its name as mhic Aonghais (MacInnes). Whether its definition as the 'sons of chosen one' was known at that time is a moot point. From this time Clan MacInnes chiefs would go on to have a close association with Clan Donald, with their last clan chief being a foster father to one of the sons of the First Lord of the Isles, John of Islay.
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The convent was built around 780 near an old little church dedicated to St. Vittore. In order to be free from the control of the new priorate, the people of Meda built another church dedicated to St. Mary and St. Sebastian. The quarrels between the inhabitants and the convent ended on 10 December 1252, when the Prioress Maria da Besozzo gave up all her political, administrative and economic power on the village. Later the municipal territory was held by the Visconti and Sforza families until, in the 16th century, it fell under the control of Spain and then of Napoleon.
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Similar numbers were protected and then discovered in the convents of the Sisters of the Divine Saviour and the Order of the Divine Love, with many of the Jews dragged out and murdered by the Arrow Cross. The prioress of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Union was captured and tortured for sheltering Jews in her hospital. Despite warnings, she resumed her rescue efforts in the apartment of the Prelate Arnold Pataky. Hundreds more Jews were saved at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the home of the Sisters of Mercy of Szatmar and the Convent of Sacre Coeur.
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In 2008 he was appointed Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain.News and photo of the inauguration of the Academic of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, in the Department of Theology (In Spanish)Quote from Angel Martinez Casado on the appointment of Academic Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, Section of Theology,(In Spanish) October 21, 2008 16:16. Has also served as Vice Postulator of the Ecclesiastical Court in charge of the diocesan canonization of Mother Teresa Maria de Jesus Ortega Pardo, the former prioress of Olmedo Monastery, process which closed on July 18, 2006.
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Entering the convent with young Marie as a companion was another Marie, the daughter of Christine de Pizan. Christine described a visit to Poissy in 1400 in her work "Le Livre du Dit de Poissy," where she was greeted "joyously and tenderly" by the seven-year-old Marie of Valois and the Prioress. Christine also described Marie's lodgings as befitting a royal princess. In 1405, her mother, Isabeau, and her uncle, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, visited her and tried to convince her to abandon the religious life in order to marry Edward, son of Robert, Duke of Bar, an ally of Louis.
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Contours of the Duchy of Brabant of Hadewijch's time, drawn on a 20th-century map of Belgium and the Netherlands. Hadewijch (sometimes referred to as Hadewych, Hadewig, ... of Antwerp, or ... of Brabant)Note that in the modern state of Belgium Antwerp (the city) lies not in Brabant (the Belgian province) but in the province of Antwerp. The "of Brabant" and "of Antwerp" identifications of the 13th century Hadewijch are apparently primarily intended to distinguish her from the (12th-century German prioress Blessed Hadewych). Part of the evidence for her origins lies in the fact that most of the manuscripts containing her work were found near Brussels.
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Giovanna Scopelli (1428 – 9 July 1491) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Reggio Emilia who was a religious from the Carmelites and established her own convent as its first prioress. Scopelli was forbidden to enter the third order branch of that order during her adolescence and waited until her parents died to embrace the religious life. Scopelli was beatified on 24 August 1771 under Pope Clement XIV when the latter approved her local 'cultus' – otherwise known as popular devotion – and thus ratified her beatification. She was titled before this as a Servant of God in 1500 when the canonization cause commenced under Pope Alexander VI.
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Geddes secured a Leverhulme Research Award to produce two volumes for the Buildings of Scotland series, Aberdeenshire and North-East Scotland, 2008 - 2014. In 2003, Geddes published the electronic version of the St Albans Psalter, in a project funded with a major grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board (now Arts and Humanities Research Council). Geddes analysed the images and text of the Psalter to argue that the book was made for the medieval anchoress and prioress Christina of Markyate. Diane Watt said of the St Albans Psalter project that ‘This electronic publication marked a significant moment in scholarship on women’s literary culture in post-Conquest England’.
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Dallas Stewart (born September 15, 1959 in McComb, Mississippi) trains a string of thoroughbred horses in Kentucky from bases at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Keeneland Race Course, Fair Grounds Race Course, Arlington Park and Saratoga Race Course. Before venturing out on his own, he spent 12 years working under the tutelage of leading trainer D. Wayne Lukas. There, he oversaw such horses as Lady's Secret, Thunder Gulch, Serena's Song, Timber Country, Tabasco Cat, and many other Grade I winners. In 1999, Stewart trained Kimberlite Pipe to win the Grade II Louisiana Derby and Sapphire and Silk to win the Grade III Prioress Stakes at Belmont Park.
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Furlong, Monica. Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics (Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, 1996), p. 84. Abbot Kuno of Disibodenberg asked Hildegard to be Prioress, which would be under his authority. Hildegard, however, wanted more independence for herself and her nuns, and asked Abbot Kuno to allow them to move to Rupertsberg.Furlong, Monica. Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics (Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, 1996), p. 85. This was to be a move towards poverty, from a stone complex that was well established to a temporary dwelling place. When the abbot declined Hildegard's proposition, Hildegard went over his head and received the approval of Archbishop Henry I of Mainz.
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The novices made their profession on 19 August 1841, and a day or two later Mother McAuley accompanied them to the new convent at Handsworth, where they were solemnly received by Bishop Nicholas Wiseman. Shortly afterwards Sister Mary Juliana was appointed first prioress of the community, and held that office off and on for thirty-five years, her first appointment lasting for six. She was then elected for three years, and twice re-elected for the same period, and from 1870 she held the office of superioress till her death. In 1849 she opened another convent at St. Chad's, Birmingham, and also one at Wolverhampton.
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This was the result of the foundation of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation in 1611. The gardens were managed by the monastery and were situated on the site where today the Cabo Noval Gardens can be found, within the East Plaza. In 1809 and 1810, King Joseph I ordered the seizure and destruction of the Orchard of the Prioress, as well as the demolition of the buildings in the surrounding area. His aim was to create a monumental plaza to the east of the Royal Palace but this project did not materialise until the reign of Isabella II, when the layout of the East Plaza was finally completed.
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In 1528, the crown interfered in the election of a new abbess after Cecily Willoughby (d. 1528). The abbey nominated the election of the prioress, Isabel Jordayne, described as 'ancient, wise and discreet', while Anne Boleyn favored her brother-in-law Philip Carey's sister Eleanor Carey. Henry VIII preferred Isabel Jordayne when Eleanor Carey's candidacy was destroyed by serious moral charges against her. In 1535, the abbess complained about Thomas Leigh's too strictly enforced enclosure, as it would not be possible for her to conduct the abbey's business properly if she was not allowed to leave the convent on business, as the abbey was in debt.
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Since the 6th century, monks and nuns following the Rule of Saint Benedict have been making the Benedictine vow at their public profession of obedience (placing oneself under the direction of the abbot/abbess or prior/prioress), stability (committing oneself to a particular monastery), and "conversion of manners" (which includes forgoing private ownership and celibate chastity).Rule of St Benedict, ch. 58:17. During the 12th and 13th centuries mendicant orders emerged, such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, whose vocation emphasizing mobility and flexibility required them to drop the concept of "stability". They therefore profess chastity, poverty and obedience, like the members of many other orders and religious congregations founded subsequently.
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The restoration of the monastery began on October 2, 2008, with a liturgy served by bishop Filaret Mićević and the monastic brotherhood of the Eparchy of Mileševa. On Epiphany, 2011, the church and crosses were raised and consecrated, after which the finishing work on the facade temple and interior design began. The iconostasis and the chandelier were painted by iconographer and fresco painter Ivan Kovalčik Mileševac from Novi Sad. Through the efforts of prioress Justina Petković, with financial support of Nebojsa Grujović and entrepreneurs from the Rutoši village, and financial contributions of locals of Seništa, Rutoši and Radoinja, the largest part of work on the monastery church was secured.
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In 1971, Chittister was elected president of the Federation of St. Scholastica, a federation of twenty Monasteries of Benedictine Women in the United States and Mexico, established in 1922.Federation of St. Scholastica She was a prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, for 12 years and is a past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. She serves as co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, (2016-2019), an inclusive international network of spiritual and community leaders. With this organization, she works to bring a spiritual perspective to conflict resolution fueled by pressing economic and ecological crises across the globe.
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Founded in 1528, to adopt the 1830 closure order. During the first seizure, the monastery despite a government ban, remained active in the figure of the Mother Prioress Isabel de Garcimartín, who together with three novices with secular clothes, kept the monastery until 1868, when It return to his religious status, though with less height reaching almost to disappear in later years. In the 1950s, seeks help from the community of Dominican Sisters of Daroca (Zaragoza) which sends them three nuns to continue religious work (including sister Teresita del Niño Jesús Pérez de Iriarte). The present building dates from the seventeenth century, and was rebuilt in the nineteenth century.
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The ruins were later granted to John Higford around 1539/40; it is unknown what happened to the ruins after Highford died in 1602, although they were eventually demolished to make way for a large field. The site where the priory once stood is supposedly haunted by 12 nuns who died from the Black Death in 1349. During the summer of 1349, 15 nuns were noted as living at the priory, but by August 19, 1349 12 nuns had died from the Black Death at Henwood Priory, including the Prioress (Mother Superior) Millicent de Fokerham, but the supposed "ghosts" have not been seen since 1976.
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Kirklees Priory Gate House, all that remains of the original priory Kirklees Priory was a Cistercian nunnery whose site is in the present-day Kirklees Park, Clifton near Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Dewsbury. The priory dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St James was founded by Reiner le Fleming, Lord of the manor of Wath upon Dearne, in 1155 during the reign of Henry II. Nuns from the priory were involved in scandals between 1306 and 1315. Archbishop of York William Greenfield wrote to the prioress about rumours concerning Alice Raggid, Elizabeth Hopton, and Joan Heton.
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Since the preachers were to be appointed in consensus with the prioress, the employment of a Lutheran pastor indicates the conversion of most Neuenwalde nuns to Lutheranism by then. With their advowson the prioresses blocked the intention of Bremen's Bederkesa bailiffs (the Bailiwick of Bederkesa [Amt Bederkesa] being between 1381/1421 and 1654 under the city's rule) to install Reformed preachers, unlike in Bederkesa proper, Debstedt, Flögeln, , , and Ringstedt () where the conversion then succeeded.Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, „Einige Nachrichten von den ehemaligen Klöstern im Herzogthum Bremen“, in: Neues vaterländisches Archiv oder Beiträge zur allseitigen Kenntniß des Königreichs Hannover und des Herzogthums Braunschweig, Lunenburg: Herold & Wahlstab, 1822–1832, vol.
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Further, nuns were not to leave the precincts of the priory at all without permission, although the custom of taking the air together was commended. No secular women should have been living on the premises without the bishop's permission and any so doing were to leave by the next Feast of the Purification (2 February). The same applied to unauthorised children: with the bishop's permission each nun was allowed to keep one child for education, but males over seven years were excluded. The bishop demanded that nuns keep the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and the prioress was to report breaches to him.
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The Wursten Frisians saw their chance and covered the borderland adjacent to Wursten, including the Neuenwalde seigniorial bailiwick, with raids and attacks. In 1518 Prioress Wachmans appealed to the Wursten Consuls not to incite or even undertake the ravaging of houses and looting of grain and firewood from the convent's feudal tenants. Otherwise their wives and children would have to beg and freeze in the winter. In a deed of 20 December 1520 the nunnery is characterised as the monastery impoverished by fire and harrying. The troops of Christopher the Spendthrift finally subjected the Wursten Frisians in the Battle of Mulsum on 9 August 1524.
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The 14th-century Bridgittines were purposely founded using this form of community. In the Roman church, monks and nuns would live in separate buildings but were usually united under an Abbess as head of the entire household, examples include the original Coldingham Priory in Scotland, Barking Abbey in London, and Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent in separate cantons of Switzerland, controlled by the male abbot of Einsiedeln without a converse arrangement for the prioress of Fahr whereas more commonly a female abbess ruled over the two communities.Lawrence 52. In most English and many Continental instances the abbess tended to be a princess or widowed queen.
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In 1301, the rectory was occupied by the nuns of Aconbury and for some time it housed eight nuns and their prioress until the Dissolution of the monasteries in 1534 when the property and lands were seized by the Church of Wales. The rectors of the church at Penally used the building as their place of residence until the 1820s, when a new vicarage was erected. In the early 1800s the ruined chapel became a fernery and later a Victorian folly. In the early 20th century, Penally Abbey became a private residence and it was occupied by the famous Jameson's Whiskey family from 1916 until 1925.
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Against the setting of the French Revolution, when crowds stop carriages in the street and aristocrats are attacked, the pathologically timid Blanche de la Force decides to retreat from the world and enter a Carmelite convent. The Mother Superior informs her that the Carmelite Order is not a refuge; it is the duty of the nuns to guard the Order, not the other way around. In the convent, the chatterbox Sister Constance tells Blanche (to her consternation) that she has had a dream that the two of them will die young together. The prioress, who is dying, commits Blanche to the care of Mother Marie.
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Sister Constance remarks to Blanche that the prioress' death seemed unworthy of her, and speculates that she had been given the wrong death, as one might be given the wrong coat in a cloakroom. She said that perhaps someone else will find death surprisingly easy. Perhaps we die not for ourselves alone, but for each other. Blanche's brother, the Chevalier de la Force, arrives to announce that their father thinks Blanche should withdraw from the convent, since she is not safe there (being both an aristocrat and the member of a religious community, at a time of anti- aristocracy and anti-clericalism in the rising revolutionary tides).
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McCabe says that the "earliest texts of Sir Hugh are Scottish … [and] preserve the medieval saint's legend in its most coherent form." The song may also incorporate elements of other medieval anti-semitic texts, particularly a miracle story also drawn on by Chaucer in the Prioress' Tale that features Jews murdering a child, often a school child, that habitually sings an anthem near where they live, and throw the body into their privy. These elements occur in some of the early versions of Sir Hugh. The known versions have lost many of the elements of the original story, or have simplified them over time.
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Eventually a guard gathered her up in his arms and threw her on the street; she lay face down on the pavement stones, with no signs of life as the crowd protested the guard's treatment of her. She stirred, lifted up her blood-smeared face, and warmly thanked the guard for not killing her, "thereby depriving her of her share in her community's glorious witness for Jesus Christ".Bush, p. 77 Sister Mary-Henrietta stood by her prioress until it was her turn to die, helping the 14 other sisters climb the scaffold steps before climbing them herself, and was the second-to-last to die.
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The convent's first prioress was Lucy (or Lucia), named in a well-preserved, early thirteenth- century bede in which she is called the foundress of the priory, leading to much confusion, as it was assumed that she was a wife of the founder or a member of the Vere family.Victoria County History, Essex, II, 122. The convent was torched by the men of the founder's son and heir late in 1190 or early in 1191, and in punishment Aubrey IV was fined 100 marcs by the king and in atonement donated additional property to the priory in February 1191.William Dugdale, 'Monasticon Anglicanum, IV, 437-8, num.
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His sister Barbara, named after her mother, became a Benedictine nun and, in her final years, prioress of a convent in Chełmno (Kulm); she died after 1517. His sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life. Copernicus never married and is not known to have had children, but from at least 1531 until 1539 his relations with Anna Schilling, a live-in housekeeper, were seen as scandalous by two bishops of Warmia who urged him over the years to break off relations with his "mistress".John Freely, Celestial Revolutionary, I.B. Tauris, 2014 pp.
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Around the year 1589, at age 4, Erauso (together with sisters Isabel and Maria) was taken to the Dominican convent of San Sebastian el Antiguo, where Erauso's mother's cousin, Ursula de Uriza e Sarasti, held the position of prioress. Erauso grew into a strong, stocky, and quick-tempered individual,Velasco (2000), p. 2. Realizing he had no religious vocation, and as a result feeling imprisoned and refusing to take his vows, Erauso was detained in his cell because of this and constant fights with a widowed novice named Catalina de Alirli. At 15, after being beaten by one of the older nuns, Erauso decided to escape.
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After Henry VIII's death, seven nuns, who had already been permitted by Queen Mary to return to Dartford, re-established the convent at King's Langley Priory, Hertfordshire, with Elizabeth Cressener as prioress. However, in 1559, visitors from the Privy Council came to Dartford and tendered the oaths of supremacy and uniformity, first to the provincial prior, and then to each of the nuns separately; all refused to take the oaths. The visitors then sold the goods of the convent at low prices, paid the debts of the house, divided what little remained among the sisters, and ordered them to leave within twenty-four hours.
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Stanisławska was born in 1651 to Michal Stanisławski, a military commander and at one time the voivode of Kiev province, and Krystyna Borkowa Szyszkowska (née Niszczycka). Stanisławska was a member of the szlachta, or noble class, and her family bore the Piława coat of arms, connecting them to the powerful Potocki and Zebrzydowski families. Following the death of her mother when she was three, Stanisławska was sent to a cloister near Kraków to be educated by Dominican nuns. Her maternal great aunt, Gryzelda Dominika Zebrzydowska, was the prioress there until she died of the bubonic plague, at which point Stanisławska was placed in the guardianship of her maternal grandfather.
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Every summer, the abbey's 38 nuns on of rural land, help the community stage a musical, with the 2008 presentation of West Side Story, after previous shows Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man and My Fair Lady. Hart was named prioress of the monastery in 2001, after the election of Mother David Serna as second abbess of Regina Laudis, and held that office until 2015. Hart remains a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, having in recent years become the only nun to be an Oscar-voting member. Hart often appears in public wearing a beret on top of her habit.
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The Reformation was first introduced into the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1542 when troops of the Schmalkaldic League occupied it. The Reformers ignored the abbey's Imperial immediacy and ordained the use of Lutheran church services, the introduction of which however the canonesses were able to postpone on account of the absence of the prioress (Dekanin) who was governing the abbey on behalf of the seven-year-old abbess. The townspeople of Gandersheim had received the Reformation enthusiastically and on 13 July 1543 undertook an iconoclastic attack on the abbey church, where they destroyed images and altars. Henry V changed his mind however and the principality changed back to Roman Catholicism.
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Henry VIII's Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 records the priory as holding not only its rectories of Carlton and Cantley and land at Handsworth, but lands at Gildingwells, Gringley and "Willourne". In 1536 the King's agents, Thomas Legh and Richard Layton, visited the priory and found no slander or scandal to report against it. It was a small religious house and so was to have been dissolved under the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, Parliament's first act for the Dissolution of the Monasteries. However, the prioress, Margaret Goldsmith, bought off the Crown officials with a payment equal to the priory's income for more than a year.
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It may be that during her term of office the house was well governed, and had a better reputation; but this is of course mere conjecture. The name of this prioress and her successor, Emma Drakelowe, are found in many of the charters relating to tenements and leases in the chartulary. Nothing further is known of the state of the priory, internal or external, until it was visited by Richard Layton in 1535, with other houses in Bedfordshire. If the accusations contained in his letter to Thomas Cromwell were true, the priory had certainly ceased to be in any real sense a religious house.
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They were recognized as a religious community by the local bishop, Frédéric Lamy, the Bishop of Meaux, in September of that same year. They were formally created a religious institute in 1938 under the name of the Sisters of Jesus Crucified, and Mother Marie des Douleurs was elected the first prioress of the community. By 1936 the community had grown to such an extent that a new monastery was established in Tournai, Belgium. It was closed, however, in 1940 due to the outbreak of World War II After the war, the growth of the congregation was swift, with the members of the congregation reaching 130 by 1951.
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Levee raced in a time before the current US stakes race grading system, so while she is technically not a graded stakes winner, many of the race she won are now graded. Her first stakes win came in the 1955 Selima Stakes during her two-year-old season. At three, she won the Monmouth Oaks after placing third several times in the Alabama Stakes, Acorn Stakes, Test Stakes and Prioress Stakes. Levee then won the Coaching Club American Oaks, described as "America's toughest stakes for 3-year-old fillies" by a neck from Princess Turia, and the Beldame Stakes both of which are now grade 1 stakes.Equibase.
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In pursuit of this rivalry between York and Canterbury, Geoffrey was the first archbishop of York to style himself "Primate of England", in opposition to the Canterbury title of "Primate of all England".Cheney Hubert Walter pp. 52–53 He also attempted to subordinate Clementhorpe Priory to Godstow Abbey, which provoked an appeal from Prioress Alice of Clementhorpe to the papacy. Probably owing to Pope Celestine III's dislike of Geoffrey, Hubert Walter was given a papal legateship that included Geoffrey's province, something that had not been usual in the preceding years, and which presented Geoffrey with some difficulties in his dealings with the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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Chaucer first used the rhyme royal stanza in his long poems Troilus and Criseyde and Parlement of Foules. He also used it for four of the Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale, the Prioress' Tale, the Clerk's Tale, and the Second Nun's Tale, and in a number of shorter lyrics. He may have adapted the form from a French ballade stanza or from the Italian ottava rima, with the omission of the fifth line. James I of Scotland used rhyme royal for his Chaucerian poem The Kingis Quair, and it is believed that the name of the stanza derives from this royal use.
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In 2016, the Congregation's General Chapter elected Sister Patricia Siemen, OP, as Prioress; Sister Mary Margaret Pachucki, OP, as Vicaress; Sister Frances Nadolny, OP, as Administrator; and Sisters Patricia Harvat, OP, and Elise D. Garcia, OP, as General Councilors. The Chapter delegates also approved four Enactments that they will focus on through General Chapter 2022: deepening their spirituality and engaging with others in prayer and presence; sacrificing to mitigate their impact on climate change and ecological devastation; facilitating and participating in resilient communities with people who are relegated to the margins; and deepening their relationships with one another, inviting others to vowed and Associate life, and expanding collaboration.
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The election of de Stapleton did not bring the affair to a close. She was continually insulted and disobeyed, particularly by Emma de Ebor' and Mary de Holme. The former, says Power, "could not forget that she had once been prioress" at Keldholme, and the latter—who had either returned from Swine or, perhaps, had disobeyed the Archbishop and never left Keldholme—forced Greenfield to take further action. He instructed the priory's custos, Richard del Clay, vicar of Lastingham, to make his way to Keldholme and there summon both de Holme and de Ebor' on the charge of being—in the Archbishop's words—"daughters of perdition".
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Accordingly, Emma de Stapleton resigned in February the next year—in her words, "oppressed by age" and sickness—and Emma de Ebor' was re-elected in her place. For the second time in Keldhome's recent history de Ebor' succeeded de Stapleton as prioress, in what amounted, says Burton, to a posthumous victory over Greenfield. Power has speculated that de Stapleton's reason for resigning was not so much her age as the fact that she was intimidated into doing so: age may well have been "something of a euphemism; her reason doubtless took a concrete and menacing shape and wore a veil upon its undiminished head".
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West end of the monastery church, rebuilt in the 19th century The house thus established was intended partly as a refuge for women who had previously lived in Cathar religious houses but had formally converted to Catholicism, and partly the first established base of operations for Dominic and his followers.William Westcott Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia (Routledge 1995), s.v. "Dominican order". About twelve women, including Raymonde Claret, were the first nuns of Prouille, living under the Rule of St. Augustine: for several months some of them lodged at Fanjeaux, perhaps in the house of the first prioress of Prouille, Guillelmine de Fanjeaux, because the buildings at Prouille were scarcely habitable.
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The painting was acquired for the friars of San Antonio by Fr. Raymon Gomez, one of the four original friars who arrived in San Antonio in 1926. He was instrumental in bringing to fruition the friars’ dream of building a National Shrine to be dedicated to the newly canonized St. Thérèse. It’s recorded in Basilica archives that he went to France in 1927 to visit the sisters of St. Thérèse's Discalced Carmelite Convent in Lisieux to ask for their blessing on the project. The nuns, including St. Thérèse’s sister Pauline, who was then prioress of Lisieux, were delighted with the idea and pledged their support.
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The Parish Church of St Mary and Holy Trinity, Stratford, Bow; known as Bow Church There was a nearby Benedictine nunnery from the Norman era onwards, known as St Leonard's Priory and immortalized in Chaucer's description of the Nun Prioress in the General Prologue to his Canterbury Tales. However, Bow itself was still an isolated hamlet by the early 14th century, often cut off from its parish church of St Dunstan's, Stepney by flooding. In 1311 permission was granted to build St Mary's Church, Bow as a chapel of ease to allow the residents a local place of worship. The land was granted by Edward III, on the King's highway, thus beginning a tradition of island church building.
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A nun who is elected to head her religious house is termed an abbess if the house is an abbey, a prioress if it is a monastery, or more generically may be referred to as "Mother Superior" and styled "Reverend Mother". The distinction between abbey and monastery has to do with the terms used by a particular order or by the level of independence of the religious house. Technically, a convent is any home of a community of sisters – or, indeed, of priests and brothers, though this term is rarely used in the United States. The term "monastery" is often used by The Benedictine family to speak of the buildings and "convent" when referring to the community.
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Canonization Mass on 5 June 2016. Hesselblad then made a pilgrimage to Rome, where she received the sacrament of Confirmation. She also visited the house of Bridget of Sweden there, where Bridget had spent the last half of her life, which made a deep impression upon her. At that point she felt called to dedicate her life to the work of Christian unity. She returned to New York City briefly, only to go back to Rome, where, on 25 March 1904, she was welcomed as a guest by the nuns of the Carmelite monastery housed there; Mother Hedwig – the prioress – welcomed her after hesitating to accept her due to her weak health.
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Beadsman took the lead inside the final furlong and won comfortably by a length from Toxophilite with The Hadji staying on strongly for third. Many of the jockeys lost weight during the race and when Wells was checked afterwards he was found to be slightly below his registered weight. He had to add Beadsman’s bridle to the judge’s scales before he could pass the weigh-in. In his only race after the Derby, Beadsman won a Triennial Stakes at Stockbridge Racecourse. He was entered for at least three match races in the autumn, including one against the Cesarewitch winner Prioress, but none of these happened as either Hawley or the owner of Beadsman’s rival withdrew and paid a forfeit.
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Pulisena Margherita Nelli was born into a wealthy family in the San Felice area of Florence. Her father, Piero di Luca Nelli, was a successful fabric merchant and her ancestors originated from the Tuscan valley area of Mugello, as did the Medici dynasty. There is a modern- day street in Florence, Via del Canto de’ Nelli, in the San Lorenzo district, named for her family, and the New Sacristy of the Church of San Lorenzo is the original site of her family homes. She became a nun at the age of fourteen, taking on the name Suor Plautilla, at the convent of Santa Caterina di Cafaggio; she would later be prioress on three occasions.
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Anne of Saint Bartholomew (; 1 October 1550 – 7 June 1626) - born Ana García Manzanas - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Discalced Carmelites. She was also a companion to Saint Teresa of Ávila and she led the establishment of new monasteries of in France and the Lowlands. Anne sometimes struggled with her superiors as she set about setting new convents and holding her position as a prioress while later settling in the Spanish Netherlands where she opened a house and remained there until she later died. She was a close friend and aide to Saint Teresa of Ávila and the saint died in her arms in 1582.
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After the success of the retreats in those places, she travelled to Buenos Aires and arrived there in September 1779 where she met with imperial officials, who refused her the task of restoration. In 1780 the retreats in Buenos Aires began with incredible success and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires Sebastián Malvar y Pinto gave his support to her. Her work became well known not only in Argentina, but in France such as in the convent of Saint-Denis in Paris, where the prioress was the aunt of King Louis XVI. Letters she penned during this period were translated in languages such as English and German, and were sent for inspiration to various countries.
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From his early childhood Igor served in this church under the guidance of nun Angelina—today Mother Macaria, the prioress of the Makarievo-Pisemsky monastery located in the diocese of Kostroma and Galich—a very strict and demanding woman taught an altar boy everything she knew about church services. After ten years of high school, he served in the military in Smolensk. In 1975, after leaving the army, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary. After the first year of education he received only excellent grades, and thus was immediately transferred to the third class, and in 1978, after graduation from the seminary, he was admitted to the Moscow Theological Academy without sitting for entrance examinations.
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The foundation of a house at Charleville in 1622 by the Marquise Claudine de Mouy, widow of Henri de Lorraine, the Count of Chaligny (1570–1600), was the catalyst for a great revival of the Order. New constitutions, drawn up by a Jesuit and approved by Pope Urban VIII in 1631, bound the canonesses to the recitation of the Divine Office, rigorous fasts, the use of the discipline, and a strict interpretation of the rule of poverty. Twelve was established as the minimum number of professed canonesses necessary for the canonical election of a prioress. All the monasteries of the Order in that country were swept away by the French Revolution, and the canonesses have not returned.
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Acorn Stakes She rebounded with a win in the six-furlong Prioress Stakes, where she broke poorly and then raced from off the pace for the first time, pulling clear of the field in the stretch. Baffert said, "So, now we know she can rate and that is a dimension you always want to see." On August 2 in the Test Stakes, heavily favored Indian Blessing left five other 3-year-old fillies at the quarter pole and drew away to a 7-length victory, covering the 7 furlongs in 1:22.70. On September 20, she took on older mares for the first time, winning the Gallant Bloom Handicap by 6¼ lengths.
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Statue et reliquaire Barbe Acarie When her husband died in 1613, his widow settled her affairs and begged leave to enter the Carmel, asking as a favour to be received as a lay sister in the poorest community. In 1614 she withdrew to the monastery of Amiens, taking the name of Marie of the Incarnation."Blessed Mary of the Incarnation OCD", Order of the Brothers of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel Her three daughters had preceded her into the cloister, and one of them, Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, was sub-prioress at Amiens. She made her solemn profession on April 8, 1615, in the course of a prolonged sickness.
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In 1899, she established the congregation of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She wrote and prepared the Constitution for the order under the model of the Capuchin Friar Arcangelo da Camerino, who had organized the Daughters of the Sacred Heart in Trieste and became the first prioress of the congregation. Her vocation was to work among the poor and bridge the gap between the Slavic and Italian communities living in Rijeka in a period of mounting nationalism. Cosulich died on 29 September 1922 in Rijeka The order that she founded has spread to include six dioceses in Croatia and one in Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy, as well as operating two kindergartens and a girls' boarding school.
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In August 1950, Sister Mary Nona McGreal was appointed president of the college and prioress of the Sisters. A new academic criterion was adopted in 1950-1951: seniors were administered the Graduate Record Examination and sophomores a series of tests from the American Council on Education. Several campus organizations, including Kappa Gamma Pi, the national Catholic Honor and Activity Society, were also established in 1951. Meanwhile, more students with different backgrounds and cultures enrolled in the College: black students, Vietnamese, Hondurans, Germans, and Colombians. Additionally, the college began in 1951 to assist in students’ preparation as teachers of Saturday classes to involve them in catechetical instruction in the parishes of the Diocese.
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Marguerite was born into the locally powerful family of the seigneurs of Oingt in Beaujolais, who became extinct in 1382 for want of male heirs. She joined the Carthusian Order as a nun, and in 1288 became the fourth prioress of Poletains Charterhouse,of which only one building now remains near Mionnay in the Dombes, founded in 1238 by Marguerite de Bâgéwife of Humbert V of Beaujeu, aka Humbert I des Dombes for nuns who wished to live according to the custom of the Carthusians as far as was then thought possible for women. Marguerite d'Oingt was also a well-known mystic of her day, contemporary with Philippe le Bel and Pope Clement V.
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Roseline was born at the château of Les Arcs-sur-Argens, Var, in eastern Provence, near Draguignan. Having overcome her father's opposition, Roseline became a Carthusian nun at Bertaud in the Alps of Dauphiné. Her consecration took place in 1288, and in about 1330 she succeeded her aunt, Blessed Jeanne (Diane) de Villeneuve, as Prioress of La Celle-Robaud in the Diocese of Fréjus near her home. In 1320 her brother Hélion de Villeneuve, Grand Master (1319–46) of the Knights of St. John, restored the monastery, and in 1323 and 1328 Pope John XXII, formerly Bishop of Fréjus, increased its revenue, granting indulgences for the anniversary of the dedication of the church.
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He abducted his sister, Elizabeth, prioress of the Dominican Monastery of the Blessed Virgin on Rabbits' Island, and gave her in marriage to a Czech aristocrat, Zavis of Falkenstein. According to Archbishop Lodomer, Ladislaus even stated, "If I had 15 or more sisters in as many cloistered communities as you like, I would snatch them from there to marry them off licitly or illicitly; in order to procure through them a kin-group who will support me by all their power in the fulfillment of my will". Ladislaus spent the last years of his life wandering from place to place. Hungary's central government lost power because the prelates and the barons ruled the kingdom independently of the monarch.
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A grant of the site and lands of the prioress was given to Sir William Poulet, comptroller of the king's household, in August 1536. In May 1538 "the house and site of the dissolved priory of Wintney, with the church, steeple and churchyard of the same, the manor and rectory of Hartley Wintney and all lands pertaining" were granted to Richard Hill and Elizabeth his wife. A letter of 1538 from Richard Poulet to Mr. Hill ordered him "in the name of the king's commissioners, to cease to deface any of the buildings of the late priory of Wintney besides those which the king had given him, which were only the cloister and the dorter".
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She places the blame for Littlemore's condition squarely on Wells's shoulders, with her "habitual incontinence [and] persecution of her nuns", whom she describes as "a particularly bad prioress". Power notes that such a situation was far more likely to arise in small, poor houses, which medievalist F. D. Logan suggests were often already "struggling for survival", than in houses with independent wealth. Spears agrees with Power on Wells's irresponsibility, suggesting that if her nuns subsequently behaved poorly, "it would be surprising" if this was not the result of observing, learning and copying her behaviour and approach. Spears notes that, as Wells utilised "erratic and aggressive" discipline, so the nuns seem to have behaved reciprocally towards her.
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129-63, at p. 153. However, after an Act was introduced in 1549 to regulate and restore monastic pensions, in September 1552 Heigham was appointed a commissioner, together with Sir William Drury, Sir Thomas Jermyn (deceased), Sir William Waldegrave and others, to investigate abuses. They interviewed the late priors of Woodbridge and Eye, the abbot of Leiston and the prioress of Redlingfield, the Master and three fellows of Wingfield College, and many priests, former monks and lay annuitants. It was found that Ambrose Jermyn (son of Sir Thomas) had accepted the transfer of an annuity as an inducement for the granting of a benefice; Edward Reve had sold his annuity to John Holt, one of the commissioners.
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There is happily no doubt of her real existence, as her name appears on the foundation charter and other documents; and an entry on the Pipe Roll of 1156 gives some evidence of the fame to which she attained. During her lifetime the priory acquired some property outside the county; there were certainly four churches belonging to it in the thirteenth century, and possibly more. But it was never a wealthy house. In 1259, when the Friars Preachers came to Dunstable, the prioress of Markyate, Agnes Gobion, sent them a certain number of loaves every day for their dinner—'out of pure charity,' says the chronicler, because they were then building their church.
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Because this represented at least half the convent, Emma de Ebor' resigned on 30 July the same year. Greenfield was forced to accept her cession as prioress and on 5August announced that, finding no suitable candidate from within Keldholme itself, he had chosen Joan de Pykering from the nearby Benedictine Rosedale Priory. She, says the VCH, "from the testimony of trustworthy persons, was deemed competent" and of "good reputation"; it is probable that she had indicated willingness to put Keldholme in order at Greenfield's command. Janet Burton emphasises that this was an appointment rather than an election, and notes that the imposition of an outsider meant that the Archbishop had revoked their privilege to elect their own head.
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Forge Mill north of Bettws Newydd at SO 355974 was still in use at the end of the nineteenth century, using a 200m long weir stretching between islands on the river to draw its water. Gorrats Mill at Trostrey sits on the Usk's left bank at SO 359040. The possible 16th century Prioress Mill (SO 367022) at Rhadyr just north of the town of Usk was another which whilst close to the Usk drew its water from a tributary, in this case the Berthin Brook. In addition to these there is an enigmatic leat beside the uppermost section of the river's course which is presumed to have drawn water off it at SN 816263 and transferred it via a contouring route across the moors for over 2km.
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According to a later interview with the Prioress, Mother Mary of the Sacred Heart and Sister Mary Balthazar were ordered to burn several boxes containing leaflefts, novena booklets, rose petals, and other paraphernalia pertaining to the apparition, including Castillo's personal diary. The sisters were also ordered by the bishop to throw the image of the Virgin into a bonfire, but they instead hid it out of piety. Castillo herself in an interview said she had met the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Cardinal Egidio Vagnozzi in 1951, and told him that she had already left the monastery to seek medical treatment. Cardinal Vagnozzi strongly disapproved, called Castillo the Devil, and asked her to leave his presence, even trying to shove her out the door.
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Refectory Kloster Beuerberg In 1835 the Visitandines, known also as the Salesian Sisters, from the Visitandine house at Dietramszell, acquired and re-settled the premises. Between 1846 and 1938 they ran a girls' school and a home for nursing mothers, and afterwards an old people's convalescent home. In December 2013 the prioress died, and with the care for the building complex proving too demanding for the thirteen remaining elderly nuns, they decided to move into a shared elderly home run by Franciscan and Salesian nuns nearby. In 2015, the Visitandine order and the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising worked out an arrangement to house refugees in the vacant abbey in the hope that families from Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan and other conflict zones can find shelter here.
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After the death of the last Oetenbach nun in 1566, the grain master of the city of Zürich moved his offices in the east wing of the dormitory, which was henceforth referred to as Kornamtshaus. It may be assumed that the grain master occupied the principal rooms, including the two wood- carved rooms at the northern end of the wing that probably served as the apartment of the prioress. As well as the so-called Äbtissinnenstuben of the Fraumünster abbey, the last resident Katharina von Zimmern, thanks to their uninterrupted use and appreciation of the institutions established there, remained in use until a few years before the demolition of the monastic buildings occurred. In 1894 the wood-carved wainscoting were transferred to the Swiss National Museum.
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The church Dome The impulse for the founding of the monastery by Queen Margaret, and sometimes the nuns are called las Margaritas, was to celebrate her husband's expulsion of the Moriscos, resident Moors. The queen had the prioress of the monastery of discalced nuns of San Agustín in Valladolid, Mother Mariana de San José, accompanied by Francisca de San Ambrosio (sister of the marquesa de Pozas), Catalina de la Encarnación, and Isabel de la Cruz. First lodged in the Convent of Santa Isabel while they awaited the completion, they received donations from the king and queen, including jewels, to finance the monastery. The monastery was built adjacent to the then extant Real Alcázar, and had a passageway to allow the royals direct access.
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Of authentic references to the nunnery the earliest is from about 1200 in a charter of Roger de Beauchamp to the priory of St. Bees. It stated that the land he gave to that monastery was near the land of the nuns of 'Ainstapillith' in 'Leseschalis' or Seascale on the western coast. Another reliable record tells us that the nuns had the liberty of free election of a prioress, and that with the bishop, to whom she made obedience, rested the confirmation and institution of the person elected. The difficulties of surviving in an area so close to the raiders of the borders is shown in the terrible problems recorded in 1473, earlier in 1318 they were not taxed as they were totally destroyed by the Scots.
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Little is known about her, but by tradition she was the daughter of a minor Irish prince or Scottish king who fled to England to escape her father following persecution of her Christianity and her desire to serve God in celibacy. She sought refuge with a kinswoman who was prioress of a nunnery in Eltisley, Cambridgeshire and there became known for her holiness, though other sources suggest she lived for a time in Usselby, Lincolnshire. Following her death in around 904 she was buried near a well which bore her name, and canonized soon after. In 1344 her remains were exhumed and reburied beneath the altar of the parish church in Eltisley, which is still dedicated to 'St Pandionia and St John the Baptist'.
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Many Augustinians were canons regular, who operated mainly outside the walls of a religious house, and are often confused with the Augustinian friars. As opposed to abbeys of "secular canonesses", these lived largely enclosed lives, in a manner similar to that of nuns, and the residents of White Ladies fell into this category. The conventual buildings are long- gone, and may have been timber-framed,Weaver and Gilyard-Beer, p. 37. but appear to have stood against the north wall of the church. Charles II commissioned a painting of the later house around 1670, and details of the painting suggest that it may have incorporated parts of the prioress' residence, which must have stood west of the main priory buildings and cloister.VCH Shrophire, volume 2, p. 83.
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In the 1960s Polish People's Republic, Anna, a young novice nun, is told by her prioress that before she takes her vows she must visit her aunt, Wanda Gruz, who is her only surviving relative. Anna travels to visit her aunt Wanda, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking, sexually promiscuous judge who reveals that Anna's actual name is Ida Lebenstein; Ida's parents had been Jews who were murdered late in the German occupation of Poland during World War II (1939–45). Ida was then an infant, and as an orphan she had been raised by the convent. Wanda, who had been a Communist resistance fighter against the German occupation, became the state prosecutor "Red Wanda""Red Wanda" is the English subtitle translation of the Polish "Krwawa Wanda".
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St. Francis: he asked pardon from his Brother Ass (the way he referred to his body), for his severe penances. Later, Saint Francis of Assisi, who is said to have received the stigmata, painful wounds like those of Jesus Christ, is said to have asked pardon to his body, whom he called Brother Ass, for the severe self-afflicted penances he has done: vigils, fasts, frequent flagellations and the use of a hairshirt. A Doctor of the Church, St. Catherine of Siena (died 1380), was a tertiary Dominican who lived at home rather than in a convent, and who practiced austerities which a prioress would probably not have permitted. She is notable for fasting and subsisting for long periods of time on nothing but the Blessed Sacrament.
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Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 30\. No ISBN. On 19/29 NovemberO.S./N.S. Jacob Brummer and Wilhelm Schröder, subdelegates of the Restitution Commission ordered the Prioress Gerdruth von KampeToday her then name is also given in the modern standard German variant Gertrud. to deliver all liturgical devices which they appropriated in favour of the Commission.Georg von Issendorff, Kloster und Amt Himmelpforten. Nach Akten und Urkunden dargestellt, reprint of the edition by "Stader Archiv", 1911/1913, extended by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 33\. No ISBN. On 22 November/ 2 December 1629O.S./N.
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Inside, above the western door there is a decorated relief monogrammed with the initials G.R.II in honour of the then Supreme Governor of the Lutheran church, George II, King and Elector of Great Britain and Hanover. The congregation owns two chalices, one from 1422 and another donated by the convent's last Prioress Gerdruth von Kampe in 1636. Furthermore there are a paten granted by the Conventual Anna Voss in 1648, and a silver, internally gilded jug, created in 1780 fulfilling the last will of the widow of Bailiff Tiling, née Prilop (d. 1779). In 1684 on the occasion of the renovation of the abbey, during the term of Bailiff Lothar Feindt, an unknown donator granted a wooden putto which was later translated to the new church.
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The offertory box is a massive oaken chest, created at the turn of the 16th and 17th century. On the southern wall is a mounted sandstone epitaph for Prioress Maria von Weyhe (officiating between 1591 and 1616), translated from the old church and dating from the first half of the 17th century displaying the Weyhe family coat of arms, baroque figural allegories of Faith, Hope and Charity, reliefs of the Transfiguration of Jesus and of Jesus with the five wise virgins. The altar bible, edited by Caspar Holwein and printed in 1702 in Stade, is a valuable print from the Swedish era. There are two crypts underneath the church floor discovered in 1964 at installing a modern heating and a pertaining boiler room.
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IV (Google). The Prior Adam (fl. 1219-1235), who carried through a painful dispute with the prioress of Campsey Priory in 1228-1230,'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 2 (V.C.H., London 1975), pp. 112-115 (British History Online, accessed 8 June 2018). probably hosted Henry III's visit in March 1235.Close Rolls, Henry III: 1234-1237, p. 57; Fine Rolls, 19 Henry III, C 60/34, memb. 10, no. 168. William de Auberville attempted to assert rights of advowson at Butley Priory, but was successfully resisted,Dugdale, Monastici Anglicani Volumen Alterum (1661), p. 245; C.H. Evelyn-White, in East Anglian, or, Notes and Queries, 3rd Series vol.
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In 1964, the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism received an enthusiastic welcome in the Carmel of Nancy; then, with the agreement of the community, the Prioress, Mother Elisabeth, considered founding an Eastern-rite Carmel. Little by little, the details of the project were worked out; it was encouraged by the Superiors of the Order and received Pope Paul VI's blessing. After friendly consultations with several representatives of the Orthodox Church in France, a statute approved by the Bishop allowed the Sisters who were committed to the project to pray the Byzantine-rite Office. In 1971, this "Eastern branch" transferred to the Carmel in Nogent- sur-Marne, close to Paris, enabling the Sisters to become better acquainted with Orthodox Christianity and to be trained in iconography.
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Mariana Fernández de Córdoba y Ayala (c. 1394She was born circa 1394 and before June 1395 since, on that date her father wrote to Teresa de Ayala, former mistress of King Peter I of Castile, an aunt of his wife and prioress at the monastery of Santo Domingo el Real de Toledo, thanking her for having his wife with her and pleading that if there was time their daughter could at least see her sisters, aunts, and relatives. – 1431), also known as Mariana de Ayala Córdoba y Toledo, was the fourth Lady of Casarrubios del Monte in the province of Toledo. She was the daughter of Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Carrillo, first Lord of Baena, and Inés Ayala y Toledo, third Lady of Casarrubios del Monte.
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St. Scholastica's Academy Marikina (SSAM or, colloquially, St. Scho Marikina) is a private school for girls located at Marikina. It was founded in 1961 in response to the appeal of the alumnae of St. Scholastica's College Manila who resided in Quezon City, Marikina, Pasig, San Mateo, and other neighbouring communities, for a Catholic school in the vicinity where their children could go. Then owner of Marikina Heights Subdivision Mr. Jose Tuason, Sr. offered the lot to the Benedictine sisters of Tutzing at a very low price. The people who were given a direct hand in overseeing the construction were Sister Silvana, OSB, Mother Sub-Prioress of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing in the Philippines, Architect Imelda Borromeo Cancio and Project and Structural Engineer Ben Abastillas.
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Clandestine sexual relationships were not the sole purview of the prioress; at least one other nun, probably Juliana Wynter, had also had a child by John Wikesley, a married Oxford scholar, two years previously. For their part, the nuns complained to Horde that Wells was a brutal disciplinarian; when they tried to broach the subject with her, she would have them put in the stocks. The historian Valerie G. Spears has suggested Wells was obsessed with discipline; on the one hand this was "self-defeating", and on the other encouraged by the nuns' servility. The nuns also complained that no effort had been put into maintaining the priory or its buildings, and they pointed out damaged and leaking roofs and walls.
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Robin was ill and staying at the Priory where the Prioress was supposedly caring for him. However, she betrayed him, his health worsened, and he eventually died there. The inscription on the grave reads, :Hear underneath dis laitl stean :Laz robert earl of Huntingtun :Ne’er arcir ver as hie sa geud :An pipl kauld im robin heud :Sick [such] utlawz as he an iz men :Vil england nivr si agen :Obiit 24 kal: Dekembris, 1247 Despite the unconventional spelling, the verse is in Modern English, not the Middle English of the 13th century. The date is also incorrectly formatted – using the Roman calendar, "24 kal Decembris" would be the twenty-third day before the beginning of December, that is, 8 November.
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The last patron of all was Lord Mordaunt of Turvey, one of whose ancestors had witnessed a foundation charter of the priory. The house was probably never very rich, though no exact statement of its income can be made earlier than the dissolution. During the time of Bishop Sutton, in 1298, a nun of Harrold was found guilty of a breach of her vow of chastity; and in 1311 Bishop Dalderby issued a commission for the visitation and correction of this house amongst others. No account of this visitation is preserved, nor are any others recorded; only in 1369 Bishop Gynwell appointed Dame Katherine of Tutbury (afterwards prioress) to administer the revenues of the priory during vacancy, and to reform excesses.
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There is a very early seal of the priory attached to a charter of the first prioress, of a light-brown colour, pointed oval, representing our Lord, with cruciform nimbus, seated on a throne, with rainbow behind it, the right hand raised in benediction, the left resting on a book on the left knee. The inscription is illegible, and very little of it remains. The ordinary chapter seal was a representation of the Holy Trinity, pointed oval: a figure seated upon a throne, holding a crucifix; a crescent on the left and a star on the right. Legend: ..... MUNE C ..... M ..... There is another similar to this, only the figure is under a triple canopy with pinnacles, and has a shield of arms below.
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In a published review, Abbot Sabatier de Castres, a friend of the author, said of the book, "this is a piece of our best written story that is known." Pérard was included in the Historical Dictionary, literary and bibliographic of Fortunée Lighter (1804), which mentioned 526 women of talent who lived between the sixth century and the start of the 19th century. She was recognized as one of the rare female literary historians of her century in France. Her contemporaries included Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746–1830) as well as the Benedictine nun and mystic Marie-Jacqueline Bouette de Blémur and the prioress Françoise- Madeleine de Chaugy, who were both well regarded as writers and chroniclers of French history.
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The place was requisitioned in February 1944, ransacked, used by the French Forces of the Interior and then as a camp. It was only recovered, badly damaged, in 1946 and gradually restored with the support of Marc Boegner, the president of the Protestant Federation of FranceSite of the Pomeyrol community.. Then, in 1950, Antoinette Butte founded the Pomeyrol Community, a women's religious order dedicated to prayer, and she remained in charge as their prioress until her retirement in 1975. In November 1951, the three residents of the community dedicated themselves to each other and to the community for life at a hand laying ceremony. In 1955, a fourth sister took her solemn vows in the presence of the Regional President of the Reformed Church of France.
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Remains of Joan de Pykering's Rosedale Priory in 2008, from where she came in 1308 and to where she returned in 1309 Much of what is known of subsequent events at Keldholme comes from a letter written by the Archbishop to the Archdeacon of Cleveland, now extant in the Archiepiscopal Registers. Emma de Ebor' seems to have been unpopular with the convent from the moment of her election, and the Archdeacon was instructed to investigate certain Keldholme nuns. These were Beatrix de Roston, Mary de Holm, Isabella de Langetoft, Anabilla de Lokton, Orphania de Nueton, and Joan de Roseles, who, among others—including lay people—refused obedience to Emma and were accused of undermining her. All were subsequently adjudged guilty of insubordination to their prioress.
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St. Cecilia, the focus of the Second Nun's Tale "The Second Nun's Tale" (Middle English: Þe Seconde Nonnes Tale), written in late Middle English, is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Narrated by a nun who remains unnamed, it is a hagiography of the life of Saint Cecilia. The lack of portrait description for the second nun in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales has led some scholars to speculate that the tale is merely the second tale of the single nun or of the prioress but this idea is not widely held. Its relationship to the subsequent "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale" is to offer a serious and worthy religious-themed story before a much more irreverent tale of contemporary religious behaviour about foolish alchemists.
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Other expressions like abbess, for the chairwoman, and prioress for conventuals of certain hierarchic function, were – and are partly – continued to be used in such Lutheran Stifte. Within the scope of the visitations by the end of the year 1629 the Roman Catholic visitators issued an ultimatum to the Lutheran conventuals had been thrown out from the monasteries, with the estates of Himmelpforten and Neuenwalde then being bestowed to the Jesuites, in order to finance them and their missioning in the course of the Counter-Reformation in the Prince-Archbishopric. The expelled conventuals were denied to get the real estate restituted, which they bestowed on the monastery, when they entered it. Ferdinand II suspended the capitulars from penalty, if they would dismiss the Lutheran coadjutor Frederick, later Crown Prince of Denmark from office.
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Following the Host's suggestion, the fellowship breaks into smaller groups: the Knight, the love-sick Squire and the Yeoman survey the town's defences; the Clerk advises the Summoner not to be offended by the tale the Friar has already told; the Monk, the Parson, and the Friar have drinks with an old friend of the Monk's; the Wife of Bath and the Prioress drink wine and talk in a garden; the Merchant, the Manciple, the Miller, the Reeve, and the Clerk go into the town (231–297). The Pardoner stays behind at the inn with the intention of sleeping with Kit. The narrator assures the reader that the Pardoner would be better off sleeping in a bog than with the barmaid. That night, the Pardoner goes to Kit's room where she feigns sleep.
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Robert de Esseby founded Catesby Priory in about 1175. He endowed it with Catesby parish church, land in the parish at Lower Catesby, Upper Catesby and Newbold, the chapelry of Hellidon, the parish of Canons Ashby and that of Basford, Nottinghamshire, and lands and other properties in each parish. In 1229 Henry III mandated Hugh de Neville to allow the prioress timber from the forest of Silverstone in the Royal park to build her church. In the 1230s Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, committed his sisters Margaret and Alice to be nuns at the priory. On his death in 1240 Rich left to his elder sister Margaret his archiepiscopal pall and a silver tablet bearing a figure of Christ. Miracles were attributed to her brother's relics, and this contributed to his canonization in 1247.
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Wherefore yf yt should please the kynges highnesses to have > remorse that any suche religious house shall stande, we thinke his grace > cannot appoynt any house more mete to share his most gracious charitie and > pity on than the said house of Catesby. Further, ye shall understand that as > to her bounden dewtye towards the kynges highness in this his affayres, also > for discrete entertainment of us his commyssioners and our company, we have > not found nor belyke shall fynde any such of more dyscrecion. The last prioress, Joyce Bekeley, offered to buy the priory from King Henry VIII for 2,000 marks and to give Cromwell 100 marks to buy a gelding. The King was unmoved, and ordered the commissioners to suppress the priory, which they did before the end of 1536.
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At the time, room and board cost around $1,000 annually. Today's students might pay a little more than that, but the facilities and experience are remarkably the same (still no air conditioning!). Built in 1960 and dedicated in 1961, Mother Mary Samuel Coughlin Memorial Hall – or simply “Coughlin” to students – is named in honor of Mother Coughlin who succeeded Mother Emily Power as prioress in 1909. The dorm houses 155 students in primarily double-occupancy rooms and connects to Power Hall on the second and third floors. The building housed a common area in the basement which was referred to by students in the 1960s and 1970s as “The Smoker.” The lounge remained until 2006 when the old science building was demolished and the lounge was converted into the university's Wellness Center.
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Ludwig von Homberg was killed in the battle of Schlosshalde in 1289, and Elisabeth, now Countess of the Grafschaft Rapperswil, was forced to sell in 1290 all their rights and possessions, which the house had in Uri, to the Wettingen Abbey. On 28 November 1291 Countess Elizabeth concluded a three-year alliance with the city of Zürich against the Dukes of Austria-Habsburg. Countess Elisabeth was like her mother and father before, an ally of the city of Zürich, had the citizenship (Burgrecht) of Zürich, and she was patron of the Oetenbach Nunnery situated there: Elisabeth's daughter Cecilia von Homberg was the prioress of the nunnery, promoted its further development, and her brother Wernher donated the Our Lady Chapel in 1320. From Elisabeth's second marriage to Count Rudolf of Habsburg-Laufenburg (d.
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This may have been connected with the death of Lütold I in 1088 while engaged in battle against the forces of the Abbey of Einsiedeln. The convent was dedicated to Our Lady. In addition to the medieval St. Nikolaus- Kapelle (Saint Nicholas chapel), built around 10th century AD and now called St. Anna-Kapelle, and the late medieval church of the convent, the parish church of Weiningen were subordinated to the convent. From the very beginning, the convent has been overseen by the Abbot of Einsiedeln; the nuns are led in their daily life by a prioress appointed by the abbot. The bailiwick rights were first held by the Regensberg family, after 1306 by the citizens of the municipality of Zürich, and from 1434 to 1798 by the Meyer von Knonau family.
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The essay on hunting, in particular, is attributed to Dame Juliana Berners (or Barnes or Bernes) who was believed to have been the prioress of Sopwell Priory near St Albans. It is in fact a metrical form of much older matter, going back to the reign of Edward II of England, and written in French: the Le Art de Venerie of the huntsman Guillaume Twici. The book contains, appended, a large list of special collective nouns for animals, "Company terms", such as "gaggle of geese" and the like, as in the article List of collective nouns. Amongst these are numerous humorous collective nouns for different professions, such as a "diligence of messengers", a "melody of harpers", a "blast of hunters", "a subtlety of sergeants", "a gaggle of women", and a "superfluity of nuns".
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Another relatively distant possession of White Ladies was the church at Tibshelf in Derbyshire, the advowson of which must have been granted early in the history of the priory.Cox, p. 383. In 1291 the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of Pope Nicholas IV assessed the rectory as worth £8 but also recorded £1 going to the nuns of Brewood. Early in the following century the priory moved to appropriate the church: essentially taking over the tithes and employing a vicar to serve the church and its congregation. In order to obtain a licence from Edward II to appropriate the church into mortmain, the prioress and convent had to part with a fine of £10, a very large sum for the priory at any stage in its history. The licence was duly granted on 1 November 1315.
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By about 1469 Crosby was importing luxury fabrics, including damasks and satin, and exporting from England on Italian vessels. He was a Member of Parliament for the City of London in 1467-68, auditor from 1467-8, and alderman from 1468 until his death. In 1469 he became Master of the Grocers' Company, and in 1470 was one of the two Sheriffs of London. At about this time he was also Mayor of the Staple of Calais. By 1466 Crosby had amassed sufficient wealth from his trading ventures to obtain a 99-year lease of land from the prioress of St Helen's Priory in Bishopsgate, and to build Crosby Hall, a house which John Stow described as ‘of stone and timber, very large and beautiful, and the highest at that time in London’.
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In 1646 Prioress Gerdruth von Campe started recompleting the set of liturgical devices and donated a new chalice, and two years later her fellow conventual Anna Voß bestowed a new paten on the convent, both till this day owned by the Lutheran parish. Following the Treaty of Brömsebro on 13/23 August 1645O.S./N.S. Sweden seized the Prince- Archbishopric of Bremen, with Swedish troops anyway in the country as concluded by the war alliance between the kingdom and the prince- archbishopric.Beate-Christine Fiedler, „Bremen und Verden als schwedische Provinz (1633/45–1712)“, in: Geschichte des Landes zwischen Elbe und Weser: 3 vols., Hans-Eckhard Dannenberg and Heinz-Joachim Schulze (eds.) on behalf of the Landschaftsverband der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, Stade: Landschaftsverband der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden, 1995 and 2008, vol.
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In this formal step of forming the new congregation, Martin had encountered the prohibition in the new Code of Canon Law of 1917 of the Catholic Church against members of religious orders practicing medicine. Facing this barrier, Martin still felt a call to consecrated life and considered following the example of the recently canonized Carmelite nun, Thérèse of Lisieux (coincidentally also bearing the family name of Martin). In 1927 she applied to the community of that Order in Dublin, but her application was declined, solely on the decision of the prioress who overrode a unanimous vote by community, feeling that Martin was called to a different path in life. She then went through a new period of confusion until she was requested to consider again serving the missions.
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In this formal step of forming the new congregation, Martin had encountered the prohibition in the new Code of Canon Law of 1917 of the Catholic Church against members of religious orders practicing medicine. Facing this barrier, Martin still felt a call to consecrated life and considered following the example of the recently canonized Carmelite nun, Thérèse of Lisieux (coincidentally also bearing the family name of Martin). In 1927 she applied to the monastery of that Order in Dublin, but her application was declined, solely on the decision of the prioress who overrode a unanimous vote by community, feeling that Martin was called to a different path in life. She then went through a new period of confusion until she was requested to consider again serving the missions.
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Although historically a rural and agricultural area, it is now a dormitory village for Luton and the surrounding region, as it is a short distance from the M1 motorway. Lying on Watling Street, the Roman road (subsequently the A5 until de-trunking) between St Albans and Dunstable, it was a major coaching stop on the highway from London to Birmingham, at one point having over forty inns and public houses along its main road, and the village was one of the earliest sites of the Pickfords transport service, one road out of the village being named Pickford Road. During the 12th century Christina of Markyate was the Prioress of a Benedictine community in the area. The village lies near the junction of the A5183 Watling Street (formerly A5) and the B4540 (for Luton and Caddington).
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The drinking hart with motto as above the modern main gate of Hertford College The first Hertford College began life as Hart Hall (Aula Cervina) in the 1280s, a small tenement built roughly where the college's Old Hall is today, a few paces along New College Lane on the southern side. In mediaeval Oxford, halls were primarily lodging houses for students and resident tutors. The original tenement, mentioned in the deed of 1283, which was bought by Elias de Hertford from Walter de Grendon, mercer, lay between a tenement of the university (Blackhall) on the west, and a tenement of the Prioress of Studley on the east. In the deed by which Elias de Hertford sells it to John de Dokelynton in 1301, this last tenement is called Micheldhall.
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The band of Dominican exiles, consisting of two priests, a prioress, four choir-nuns, four lay sisters, and a young girl not yet professed, joined the nuns of Syon House, Middlesex (now London), and crossed to the Netherlands. Queen Elizabeth then granted the estate to Edward Darbyshire and John Bere, who purchased much of the lands of Dartford Priory made available by the dissolution of the monasteries. In the midst of war in 1649, the estate, including the mansion house, manor, farm, lime kiln, wharf, and land (including the chalk cliffs and salt and freshwater marshes) were passed to Captain Edward Brent of Southward for £1122. It was sold in 1748 to William, Viscount Duncannon, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, who on his father's death succeeded him as Earl of Bessborough and Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby.
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María Francisca Ricart Olmos (23 February 1881 - 2 October 1936) - in religious María Guadalupe - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious from the Servite Order. Ricart's call to the religious life manifested at the time she made her First Communion after expressing the desire to consecrate herself to God; she entered the convent when she turned fifteen and served her convent as both a novice mistress and prioress. Her peers held her in high regard for her dedication to helping and instructing new nuns as well as for her compassionate and jovial character. Ricart's beatification process opened in the late 1950s and concluded upon her beatification itself on 11 March 2001 in which Pope John Paul II beatified her and 232 others slain during the Spanish Civil War.
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This included a manor, later called Impey Hall, at Buttsbury and Stock Harward. The priory's other Cambridgeshire lands were in the parishes of Ashdon, Elmington, Great Chesterford, Greshall, Littlebury and Strethall. Parish churches were another source of monastic income. However, in 1378 the priory held only two parish churches: those at Ickleton and Arrington. By the 1450s the priory had been granted an income from the church at Shingay, although the church itself was held by the Knights Hospitaller's Shingay Preceptory. By 1227 the prioress had the right to hold at Ickleton a weekly market, an annual fair and a court leet. From 1236 she was chartered to hold a market at Stock Harward. Because it was not wealthy, the priory was exempted from tax in 1256 and many subsequent occasions, including in 1402.
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Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna. Ontario: Iter Academic Press. p. 28. Published under the title Cronichetta, there is a substantial addition from an unidentified “most reverend religious”. It is thought that this anonymous author may be Malvasia herself.Callegari, Danielle; McHugh, Shannon (2015). “Introduction”. Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna. Ontario: Iter Academic Press. p. 29. There is also a new dedicatory letter, signed by the prioress and sisters of San Mattia and San Luca. Malvasia may also have been involved in a poetic anthology by the intellectual Ascanip Persio which included Malvasia’s contemporary women writers Chiara Matraini and Lucrezia Marinella.Callegari, Danielle; McHugh, Shannon (2015). “Introduction”. Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna. Ontario: Iter Academic Press. p. 2.
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On 5 October Antoine again hunted in the Forest of Chazes and his marksmen shot and wounded the she-wolf, which escaped. His renewed activities had kept the Beast's mate and its progeny at bay; during this week they had killed nothing but sheep. On 13 October Antoine returned to Chazes at the behest of Madame de Guerin de Lugeac, prioress of Sainte-Marie- des-Chazes, who reported the presence of two wolves in her timber preserves. After a pursuit of nearly an hour and a half, Regnault, one of the eight gamekeepers from the Royal Captaincies of the Hunt, wounded the she-wolf, and she was finished off by two sharpshooters from Langeac twenty yards from where Antoine had fired on the Wolf of Chazes, the Beast, on 21 September.
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Philip Reinagle painting of the "Carrow Abbey Hunt", 1780 The foundations of the priory date to 1146, but the rooms mostly date to the early 16th century and late 19th century. The priory is built from knapped flint studded with red brick, brick dressings and plain tiled roof. It is built in 2 storeys and in three parts, with the former parlour on the left, the former hall in the centre and the late 19th century wing on the right. The former parlour, also known as the Prioress’s Parlour and Guest chamber, contains wooden mullioned windows to the left and a small oriel window to the right of first floor. On one of the Tudor doors are the wooden spandrels with the letter “Y” and a gun, which was the rebus of Isabella (Elizabeth) Wygun, the last but one Prioress of Carrow.
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Snobs can through time be found ingratiating themselves with a range of prominent groups – soldiers (Sparta, 400 BC), bishops (Rome, 1500), poets (Weimar, 1815), farmers (China, 1967) – for the primary interests of snobs is distinction, and as its definition changes, so, naturally and immediately, will the objects of the snob's admiration. Snobbery existed also in mediaeval feudal aristocratic Europe, when the clothing, manners, language and tastes of every class were strictly codified by customs or law. Chaucer, a poet moving in the court circles, noted the provincial French spoken by the Prioress among the Canterbury pilgrims: > And French she spoke full fair and fetisly > After the school of Stratford atte Bowe, > For French of Paris was to her unknowe. William Rothwell notes "the simplistic contrast between the 'pure' French of Paris and her 'defective' French of Stratford atte Bowe that would invite disparagement".
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Afterwards, in the years 1967–1971 and 1977–1989, she was a prioress of the Benedictine monastery in Warsaw. She was the President of the Polish Federation of Benedictine Monasteries of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in 1980–1992, at that time taking part in four international Meetings of the Federation. In the years 1984–1989 she was a member of the Commission of the Nuns by the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation and was a representative of Polish Benedictine nuns at the International Symposium of the Benedictine nuns and two congresses of the Benedictine Abbots in Rome. In the years 1968–1971 and 1981–1992 she was a member of the Section, and later of the Commission of the Cloister Orders at the Consulate of the Major Superiors of Religious Orders in Poland.
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The Met, however, remained her base and among her triumphs there was the new Elektra (with Birgit Nilsson and Leonie Rysanek) and The Queen of Spades. Outside the Met, she appeared in works by Poulenc (an unforgettable portrait of the Old Prioress in Dialogues of the Carmelites), Menotti (The Medium), Gottfried von Einem (The Visit of the Old Lady), Walton (The Bear), Weill (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), Britten (The Rape of Lucretia – both Female Chorus and Lucretia) and Barber (her Baroness in Vanessa). She recorded all her great signature roles: Carmen (Thomas Schippers), Klytemnestra (Georg Solti), Mistress Quickly (Leonard Bernstein), Orlovsky (Herbert von Karajan), "Pique Dame" Countess (Mstislav Rostropovich) and Sieglinde (Clemens Krauss), among many others. She became the only singer in operatic history to have sung both the soprano and mezzo leads in much of her repertory.
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The school, opened under Dame Mary Christina Dennett who was prioress from 1770 to 1781, proved so successful that, during the occupation of the Lowlands by the French, the English canonesses had great difficulty in securing permission to leave the city. After three months at their monastery in Maastricht, they passed down the Meuse on a coal barge and made their way to England (August, 1794), where they were sheltered by Lord Stourton (a member of an old Catholic aristocratic family) in Holme Hall, on Spaulding Moor, moved thence to Dean House (Wilts), and in 1798 finally took possession of New Hall, near Chelmsford (Essex). They opened a free school for the poor children of the neighborhood and it is now an independent boarding school. The community resided at New Hall until 2005, when it moved to an estate in Chelmsford.
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When founded in 1496, the College consisted of buildings taken over from the Nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century; the chapel is the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use, and predates the foundation of the college by 350 years, the University by half a century. The Benedictine Convent, upon dissolution, included the chapel and the cloister attached to it; the nuns' refectory, which became the college hall; and the former lodging of the prioress, which became the Master's Lodge. This set of buildings remains the core of the college to this day and this accounts for its distinctly monastic architectural style, which sets it apart from other Cambridge colleges. A library was soon added, and the chapel was considerably modified and reduced in scale by Alcock.
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George de Lawedre, was Vicar of Crail, Fife, prior to 15 March 1425, when as such he was a witness to a charter at Perth. The Presentation of Crail was in the gift of the Prioress and convent of North Berwick, opposite The Bass.Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1428 - 1432, edited by Annie I. Dunlop and Ian B. Cowan, SHS, Edinburgh, 1970, p.46. A priest named Alexander de Castelcaris made a Supplication to the Pope, on 28 July 1427, for its provision to himself upon George's promotion to the Bishopric.Dunlop, A. I., Scottish Supplications to Rome 1423–1428, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1956: 159 In addition he was also Master of St.Leonard's Hospital at Peebles, his successor appearing in a confirmation dated 25 July 1427 where it is stated that the vacancy had been created by Lauder's promotion to the Bishopric.
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From 1928 until 1931 she served as the novice mistress before she served as the convent's prioress from 1931 until 1934 when she was re-elected as the novice mistress; she would hold that position until her death. Ricart was devoted to the Passion and often meditated on the sufferings of the Mother at the foot of the Cross. Her colleagues held her in high regard for her jovial and compassionate spirit as well as for her strong leadership abilities while noting her dedication to passing down the proper values of contemplative life to new members. In July 1936 the Archbishop of Valencia Prudencio Melo i Alcalde ordered the religious of the convent to adopt secular clothing and flee their convent to take refuge with their families due to the increasing violence and anti-religious sentiment of the Spanish Civil War.
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Returning to Algiers, she joined the Diocesan Cultural Center "Glycines", where she was alternately librarian and teacher of Arabic. She was also part of Ribat-el-Salam (Link of Peace) where she met the monks of Tibhirine According to the Prioress General of her order, she was tall and intellectually gifted, but did not possess an easy temperament. She criticized the authorities and was rather often worried; but a few months before her death she had manifestly transformed herself, as another future martyr, the bishop of Oran Pierre Claverie, noticed : "because when you risk your own life, you have to go to the essential. " On 10 November 1995, at around 8:30 am, she went with another sister to attend mass when an Islamist terrorist came out of a car and shot her at point blank range.
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The prioress of the house, Denise Lewelyck, was accused of having broken her vow of chastity, to the very evil example of her sisters. She was called upon to purge herself of the charge, but preferred to confess it, and submit herself to the ordinance of the bishop; and resigned her office in the presence of the assembled convent and the vicar of Kensworth. It was objected against her at the same time that she had not kept the rule, and that she and others had concealed certain things at the visitation; also that she had allowed one of the sisters to withdraw from the monastery. The house was evidently in a most unsatisfactory condition at the time; and the resignation of Denise was followed by a long interregnum, her successor not being appointed till 1448.
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In her childhood, she read the autobiographical account that Saint Thérèse of Lisieux had written and the experience had a profound effect on her pious and innocent character while also coming to the realization that she wanted to live for God alone. Fernández Solar had to work to overcome her initial self-centered character towards that of one directed to the caring of others above all. Her further inspiration for this self-transformation was her upcoming First Communion which led her to this commitment in an effort to achieve worthiness of what she was soon to receive. Fernández Solar received her Confirmation on 22 October 1909 and made her First Communion later on 11 September 1910. In September 1917 she sent a letter to the prioress of the Discalced Carmelite convent close to her home expressing her desire to enter the order.
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The main effect of the Act was to expropriate the lesser religious houses to the King, who (in the words of the Act) "shall have to him and to his heirs all and singular such monasteries, abbeys, and priories, which at any time within one year next before the making of this Act have been given and granted to his majesty by any abbot, prior, abbess, or prioress, under their convent seals, or that otherwise have been suppressed or dissolved... to have and to hold all and singular the premises, with all their rights, profits, jurisdictions, and commodities, unto the king's majesty, and his heirs and assigns for ever, to do and use therewith his and their own wills, to the pleasure of Almighty God, and to the honour and profit of this realm". This section includes a retrospective effect, regularizing suppressions of houses which had already taken place.
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The letters were discovered in the archives of the monastery by the researcher and theorist Raïssa Kordic, who rescued over a hundred epistles "written in tiny italics, and developed in booklets of four to eight pages" that probably do not constitute all of her written work. Such correspondence was held by the Jesuit priest Manuel Álvarez until his departure from Chile in unspecified date due to the expulsion of the Jesuits; those missives passed into the hands of the Bishop and his successors until 1861, when the Prioress of the time requested them: their content was partially censured and then were returned to the monastery. In the early 2000s, an academic group from the University of Chile began a rescue process. Then in 2008, an edition containing 65 letters was published under the title of the "Epistolary of Sister Dolores Peña y Lillo (Chile, 1763–1769)" () that included a critical analysis.
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"May creatures be nothing for me, and may I be nothing for them, but may You, Jesus, be everything! Let nobody be occupied with me, let me be looked upon as one to be trampled underfoot...may Your will be done in me perfectly ... Jesus, allow me to save very many souls; let no soul be lost today; let all the souls in purgatory be saved.." On September 24, the public ceremony followed filled with 'sadness and bitterness'. "Thérèse found herself young enough, alone enough, to weep over the absence of Bishop Hugonin, Père Pichon, in Canada; and her own father, still confined in the asylum". But Mother Marie de Gonzague wrote to the prioress of Tours, "The angelic child is seventeen and a half, with the sense of a 30 year old, the religious perfection of an old and accomplished novice, and possession of herself, she is a perfect nun".
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The first endowment of the priory consisted of the demesne lands, granted by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, with another portion of land in the neighbourhood, at a total rent of 9s. annually; and tithes from Cashio and Watford, Herts, granted by the abbot of St. Alban's. During the lifetime of the first prioress some other small parcels of land in Oxfordshire were acquired; and during the thirteenth century the tithes of Sundon, Streatley, Higham Gobion and Buckby, Northants. At the dissolution the Crown bailiff found the house possessed of the manors of Burcester, Oxon; Livesey; and Stokesby, Norfolk; with parcels of lands in Herts, Hunts, Northants, Cambs ; and the tithes of Sundon, Streatley, Watford (Herts), Kingsbury, Coleshill, Bickenhill and three chapels besides in Warwickshire; besides pensions from Higham Gobion, Buckby (Northants), Bushey (Herts), Eversden Parva (Cambs) and Pakinton, amounting altogether to £155 5s. 10¾d.
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On the Close Rolls for 1314 is an order to the escheator not to meddle with the lands in Bing "late held by William de Huntingfield of the King as of the Honour of Eye by Knights service". On the same rolls in 1327 is an order to discharge Walter de Norwich of a third of the manor which "Sibyl the widow of William de Huntingfield" held in dower. Roger de Huntingfield died in 1337, when the manor went to his son and heir, William de Huntingfield who died in 1376 without issue. The manor then went under settlement to William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, for life, and in 1383 John de Pyeshale, clerk, and Robert de Ashfield, no doubt trustees, in whom the manor had been vested for this purpose, had licence to grant to the prioress and convent of Campsea Ashe.
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The foundation of St. Nicholas' Priory in Ribe was the result of events at Seem Abbey, a Benedictine double monastery established by the Bishops of Ribe in the first third of the 12th century. After allegations of unruliness and impropriety during the 1160s the nuns were moved out in 1170 to a new priory built for them by Bishop Ralph, closer to Ribe and episcopal supervision.the monks initially remained at Seem and were put under the charge of the then new and austere Cistercians, but in 1173 they gave up the site and moved on to Løgum Abbey The new priory at Ribe, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, consisted of a quadrilateral enclosure, of which the church formed one side and ranges of conventual buildings the other three. The prioress ran the community, while a local nobleman held the office of provost (or honorary prior) and represented the nuns in secular matters.
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In the same year the sisters joined the Congregation of St. Victor, and the priory was elevated to an abbey; the prioress Ursilia was declared the new abbess. To help them make a good start the bishop allowed some sisters to transfer from Roesbrugge Abbey, which had attached itself to St. Victor's previously. In 1261 a bolt of lightning caused the abbey and its church to burn down, killing several sisters. The buildings were rebuilt, but closer to the road to Courtrai. In 1456 the sisters accepted the reforms of and joined the Congregation of Windesheim, which had consequences for the parish, over which the abbey had rights of patronage. In 1503 the parish itself also signed up to the reforms. A period of flowering followed, which lasted until 1560 and the Protestant Reformation. In 1566 the sisters were forced by the Geuzes to flee into Bruges, where they had just bought a house of refuge, St. Bavo's on the Garenmarkt.
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University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989, 48 According to Fradenburg, these miraculous tales operate according to a paradoxical logic in which "visuality and carnality are used to insist upon the superior virtue of that which is beyond sight and flesh." Yet such sacramental materialism remains vulnerable to the kinds of abuse more obviously associated with the Pardoner; Fradenburg cites the case of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, the historical episode of the young English Christian supposedly martyred by Jews, "slayn also / With cursed Jewes, as it is notable / For it is but a litel while ago" (VII 684–686), tacked onto the end of the "Prioress' Tale". The tale was intimately bound up with attempts to "aggrandise the spiritual prestige and temporal revenues" of the local cathedral.Fradenburg 207 Thus the vivid "carnality" of the miraculous tale of martyrdom could be deployed as easily to enhance the worldly prominence of the Church as to refute heretical doctrine by reaffirming the spiritual legitimacy of Church rituals.
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Bill Lawson (2004), North Uist in History and Legend, Birlinn. Page 79. Bill Lawson writes, "It is known that Beathag was prioress of Iona in about 1203, the only problem in the ascription to her being that the Islands were still under Norse rule, though of course many of the Norse families would have become Christianized by then." Bill Lawson (2004), North Uist in History and Legend, Birlinn. Page 79. Amie mac Ruari is said to have rebuilt the church in the 14th century after her divorce from John of Islay, Lord of the Isles.Rotary Club (1995) p. 27 In 1389, Godfrey,the son of John of Islay and Amie Mac Ruari, confirmed a grant to the Abbey of Inchaffray by his mother's aunt Christina of Sancta Trinita in Chairinis, so the original grant must have been at least two generations before. Bill Lawson (2004), North Uist in History and Legend, Birlinn. Page 78.
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On account of the anti-Catholic sentiment in England at the time, the sisters opted to join the Carmelite community in Antwerp, Belgium. Following a dangerous and eventful journey via Weymouth and Le Havre,Bedingfeld 1878, p26-30 the two sisters, accompanied by their brother Edward, arrived in Antwerp on 10 August 1644 and were received by the Prioress of the Antwerp Carmel, Reverent Mother Ann of the Ascension. Both Margaret and Ursula were clothed on the feast of St. Lawrence by His Lordship, Gasper Nemius, Bishop of Antwerp. At first, Margaret reportedly found the austerity of the order difficult and prayer challenging and often dull.Bedingfeld 1878, p.33-34 She also developed doubts about the authenticity of her vocation shortly before her solemn profession,Hardman 1937, p.19 but describes a vision of Christ that put her mind at ease over the validity of her decision to join the order.Bedingfeld 1878, p.
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Grecian Queen was voted the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1953 Rock Hill Herald (South Carolina) - December 2, 1953 in a year in which she won seven of twelve starts with wins in major races for fillies such as the Prioress Stakes.Baltimore Sun – April 16, 1953 Gazelle Stakes,Baltimore Sun – June 25, 1953 New Castle Handicap Chicago Daily Tribune – July 5, 1953 and Monmouth Oaks,Palm Beach Post – August 9, 1953 At Belmont Park she won the mile and three-eighths Coaching Club American Oaks, at the time the most important race in the United States for three-year-old fillies that was often called the fillies derby.Toledo Blade (Ohio) – June 7, 1953 Grecian Queen raced again at age four and five but could not win at the top levels with her best result a second-place finish in the 1954 Maskette Handicap at Saratoga Race Course in New York state.
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A provincial superior is a major superior of a religious institute acting under the institute's Superior General and exercising a general supervision over all the members of that institute in a territorial division of the order called a province, which is similar to but not to be confused with an ecclesiastical province made up of particular churches or dioceses under the supervision of a Metropolitan Bishop. The division of a religious institute into provinces is generally along geographical lines and may consist of one or more countries, or of only a part of a country There may be, however, one or more houses of one province situated within the physical territory of another since the jurisdiction over the individual religious is personal, rather than territorial. The title of the office is often abbreviated to Provincial. Among the friars and Third Order Religious Sisters of the Augustinian, Carmelite and Dominican orders, the title or Prioress Provincial is generally used.
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Originally the beguine institution was the convent, an association of beguines living together or in close proximity of each other under the guidance of a single superior, called a mistress or prioress. Although they were not usually referred to as "convents", in these houses dwelt a small number of women together: the houses small, informal, and often poor communities that emerged across Europe after the twelfth century. In most cases, beguines who lived in a convent agreed to obey certain regulations during their stay and contributed to a collective fund. In the first decades of the thirteenth century much larger and more stable types of community emerged in the region of the Low Countries: large court beguinages were formed which consisted of several houses for beguines built around a central chapel or church where their religious activities took place; these often included functional buildings such as a brewery, a bakery, a hospital, some farm buildings.
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145; Dowden, Bishops, pp. 366-7; Watt, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 363. Papal authorisation came in a letter to the Bishop of Glasgow, inside whose diocese Lincluden lay, which stated: > ...as is contained in the petition of Archibald, Lord of Galloway, his > predecessors founded and built the monastery of Lincluden, O. CLUN., ... and > endowed it for the maintenance of eight or nine nuns, to be ruled by a > prioress, while right of patronage remained with the lords of Galloway > ...Burns (ed.), Papal Letters, p. 145. The letter goes into the details of the monastery's problems and decline, details provided to the papacy by the Lord of Galloway, and asks Bishop Walter Wardlaw: > to ascertain that these facts be true and having transferred the nuns to a > house of the Cluniac or Benedictine order, to erect the collegiate church > and hospice ... He still held both Lincluden and Kirkmahoe on 17 May 1391, when the Pope wrote to him providing him to a canonry and prebend of Glasgow Cathedral.
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A Cistercian novice who came from Europe at the same time as the Trappists, and who was joined by seventeen women from the United States, tried to establish a community, but circumstances prevented its success. Father Vincent de Paul (born Jacques Merle, 1769–1853), at Tracadie, Nova Scotia, having asked the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal for three sisters to help him with his mission in Nova Scotia, established them there and, after probation, admitted them to the profession of simple vows of the Third Order of La Trappe. However, the community never in reality formed a part of the Order of Cîteaux nor wore the Cistercian habit. The Monastery of Our Lady of Good Counsel, at Saint-Romuald near Quebec City, the first genuine community of Cistercian nuns in America, was established in 1902 by Mother Lutgarde, Prioress of Bonneval, France, when on 21 November 1902, she brought a small colony of religious women.
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On 10 July 1498, he raised an action as assignee to the deceased David Dunbar of Bele [Beil], heir of the deceased Alexander Dunbar of Biel, against Mungo Home, son and heir of the deceased John Home of Whiterig, Berwickshire, and Margaret Hume his mother, for postponing and delaying to resign the 12 merk lands of the west end of Mersington, Berwickshire, with pertinents, "land on the west half of the burne" and keeping the charters and muniments thereof. The defenders did not appear. The Lords discern them to conform to the reversion produced, and assign 15 January next to the pursuer to prove the value of damages and violated profits and duties. In July 1501 there was a dispute between Jonet, prioress of the Convent of Haddington, (represented by David Balfour of Caraldstone) and Robert Lauder of the Bass, knight, regarding the lands and chapellany of Garvald, East Lothian, and also damage made to Lauder's house at Whitecastle (or Nunraw) near Haddington.
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In The Great Seal of Scotland a charter (number 1753) confirmed at Craigmillar Castle on 3 December 1566 by Mary, Queen of Scots (but originally written and signed at the Monastery at Haddington on 6 August 1556) mentions that following his father's death, Patrick Hepburn and his affairs were placed in the hands of his tutorix, Lady Elizabeth Hepburn, Prioress of the Monastery at Haddington. In this charter Patrick is referred to as "of Whitecastle" but he is clearly mentioned as the son of his father John Hepburn of Beanston; and he is granted the lands of Slaid, [today spelt Sled] near Garvald, in Haddingtonshire. Attached to this is a further charter, a regrant of the same properties, which mentions that Patrick has now married Margaret, daughter of James Cockburn, of Langton in Berwickshire. It also states that Patrick has a younger brother James and that they have an elder brother William.
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387-390 Before the year 1181 however the prior and canons had ceased to exist, and the nuns were making efforts to free themselves from immediate subjection to the abbot of Arrouaise; and after appeals from both parties to Pope Alexander III the matter was finally referred to the arbitration of Hugh of Lincoln. Robert of Bedford, the precentor of the cathedral, was sent to treat with the abbot of Missenden, who was acting as proctor to the abbot of Arrouaise; and the result of his negotiations was that Gervase set the nuns free for ever from subjection to the parent abbey, and yielded to them the two churches of Harrold and Brayfield, with all the other gifts of Sampson le Fort, on condition that they paid half a mark yearly to the abbot of Missenden. Thenceforward until the dissolution the convent was ruled by a prioress, having sometimes a warden or master, like other small houses of nuns, and at one time a few lay brothers.
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It seems improbable from the description that the persons alluded to were religious: they were perhaps boarders taken in during the great necessity of the house. At about the same time the prioress and convent were ordered to repair the chancel of one of their appropriate churches. In 1300 Bishop Dalderby visited the monastery in person to explain the statute of Boniface VIII, De Claustura Monialium, and found the nuns at first ready to accept it; but when he had concluded his visit, and turned to go, four of them broke away from the rest and followed him to the outer gate, declaring that they would not observe it. Like a wise man, he did not stop then to argue the matter, and went on his way to Dunstable; but the next day he returned to Markyate, inquired the names of the four refractory nuns, and put the whole convent under penance on their account, threatening to excommunicate them if the statute were not observed.
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For the ideas expressed in his work, which appeared in full fascist period, when the Risorgimento was considered a "intangible" myth, Alianello risked his confinement, which he managed to avoid only because of the fall of the regime. With the establishment of the Italian Republic Alianello could further develop his line of thought with the publication of The Legacy of the Prioress (L'eredità della Priora) (1963), considered by some his greatest work, and The Conquest of the South (La conquista del Sud) (1972), often referred to in the essay later revisionist works. In keeping with its 19th-century precursors, according to Alianello, the choices made in the unification process, as well as being totally alien to the needs of the Southern Italy, have been performed by the Piedmontese, with the complicity of the British government and masonry for the purpose of mere foreign occupation. In the line of cultural descent, Michele Topa follows Carlo Alianello.
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The beginning of the convent can be traced to 1539 when Francisco Osorio proposed to the City Council of Madrid the creation of a Convent of Calced Augustinian. Archbishop of Toledo, Don Juan Martínez Silíceo, refused alleging that in Madrid in that moment had two monasteries of mendicant friars: that of San Francisco and that of Nuestra Señora de Atocha. However the Archbishop of Toledo had to cede to the pleas of people coming to royalty such as Prince Philip II, Maria of Aragon, aunt of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Prioress of the Augustinian Convent of Nuestra Señora de Gracia de Madrigal de las Altas Torres, or Leonor de Mascareñas. The Augustinian convent of San Felipe el Real was founded in 1547 by bull of Pope Paul III of June 20.Luis Araujo-Costa, (1945),«Hombres y Cosas de La Puerta del Sol», Madrid, pp:18-23 The temple was dedicated to Saint Philip the Apostle as was Prince Philip II a great devotee of him.
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Since its foundation as a priory in 1947, the monastery has grown to include some 37 nuns. The Monastery of Regina Laudis became an independent abbey in 1976. On February 10, 1976, Mother Benedict Duss, O.S.B. was elected the first Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis and became the first nun in America to receive the abbatial blessing. In the late 1960s the abbey, in conjunction with its Jesuit spiritual adviser, Francis Prokes, formed a number of lay communities. As these communities grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the abbey and Prokes drew the attention of the press for practices and behavior that critics considered manipulative, authoritarian, and "cultlike". The Abbey was featured on ABC’s 20/20 and CBS’s West 57th and was investigated by the Vatican in the early 1990s. As a result of the investigation Prokes was forced to leave the Abbey in 1994 and other restrictions were imposed. On May 13, 2001, Mother David Serna, O.S.B., prioress of the abbey, became the second Abbess of Regina Laudis.
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It is known, however, that before January 1399 Dame Sybil showed a decisive temperament by having the elderly Prior Robert Daubeneye thrown out of the monastery. In the uproar of accusations and counter-accusations that followed, Dame Sybil emerges as high- handed and the mixed royal and ecclesiastical enquiries were favorable to the Prior and his reputation as a priest in good standing, though he was not reinstated but was ordered to receive a pension. However, on 14 March 1400 there was an astounding sequel when ruffians invaded the monastery after nightfall and Sybil some of the nuns were imprisoned for at least two days, the prioress was manhandled and perhaps the monastery's treasure was carried off. Upon her prompt complaint, Henry IV, crowned king on 13 October 1399, issued orders to officers of the crown to free the nuns and restore order, since “evildoers of the town have taken and imprisoned” them.Caroline Dunn, Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013, p. 167.
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The Cistercian order was re-established and the prioress Margarete Puffen was made an abbess in 1494. at www.inschriften.net. Retrieved on 5 June 2013 After the reforms, a scriptorium became one of the focal points of the convent and to this day a large number of manuscripts found worldwide can be attributed to the sixteenth-century nuns of Medingen. Hymns (Leisen) noted down in these texts are still part of both Catholic and Protestant hymnbooks today, e.g. in the current German Protestant hymnal ' EG 23 "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ", EG 100 "Wir wollen alle fröhlich sein" and EG 214 "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet", even though they were wrongly dated to the 14th century by the music historian Walther Lipphardt.Achten, Gerard (1987). De Gebedenboeken van de Cistercienserinnenkloosters Medingen en Wienhausen in: Miscellanea Neerlandica 3 (= FS Jan Deschamps), pp. 173–188. Panel depicting some of the changes in Medingen after the 1479 convent reforms – joint meals where the youngest nun read from the manuscripts, reproduced by Johann Ludolf Lyssmann, 1772 (original art work produced in 1499) The Reformation attempted to be introduced in Medingen in 1524, was met with resistance from the nuns.
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It is up to the reader to determine the gravity and underlying meaning of Chaucer's methods in doing so :To telle yow al the condicioun, :Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, :And whiche they weren, and of what degree, :And eek in what array that they were inne, :And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. The pilgrims include a knight, his son a squire, the knight's yeoman, a prioress accompanied by a second nun and the nun's priest, a monk, a friar, a merchant, a clerk, a sergeant of law, a franklin, a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a dyer, a tapestry weaver, a cook, a shipman, a doctor of physic, a wife of Bath, a parson, his brother a plowman, a miller, a manciple, a reeve, a summoner, a pardoner, the Host (a man called Harry Bailey), and a portrait of Chaucer himself. At the end of the section, the Host proposes that the group ride together and entertain one another with stories. He lays out his plan: each pilgrim will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back.
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It is thought that the first 'modern' feudal superior of the lands of Nunraw was the Church. The name Nunraw denotes the nuns' row or hamlet, and Martine adds that "old nuns came from Italy and settled down at Nunraw". The Lauder of The Bass family appear to have later held it as a feu. Acta Dominorum Concilii, July 1501, records a dispute between Jonet, prioress of the Convent of Haddington, (represented by David Balfour of Caraldstone) and Robert Lauder of The Bass, knight, regarding the lands and chapellany of Garvald, and also damage made to Sir Robert Lauder's house at Whitecastle. The case was remitted to Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, for his consideration and adjourned until 15 October 1501. The conflict seemed to continue, however, as the Justiciary Records, under date 25 February 1510, narrate how "Thomas Dicsoune (Dickson) at the Monastery of Hethingtoune (Haddington) and others, came in the King's will for oppression done to Robert Lauder of The Basse, knight, coming under silence of night to the lands of Whitecastle, and casting down the house built there by the said Robert" (presumably the Pele Tower there).
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