He adds that two daughters of King Anna of East Anglia, "though strangers, were for their virtue made abbesses of the monastery of Brie.
Abbesses often had the retinue and state of princesses.
Whitby was not only an important religious but also political centre and the abbesses took by no means a small part in controversy.
Her name is among the five abbesses who signed a charter granting church privileges at a Kentish Witanagemot.
In the old times the costume of abbesses and nuns resembled the mourning habit of widows, who often retired to end their days in a convent.
Herford was a member of the Hanseatic League, and its suzerainty passed in 1547 from the abbesses to the dukes of Juliers.
Probably in the Isle of Ely more special respect was paid to the festivals of these four sainted abbesses than elsewhere.
Of all the abbesses who ruled over this "twin monastery" we know only the names of the first four; and all these were in due time canonised.
It is said to have been in a very flourishing condition when the Danes came to destroy it; and there is no hint anywhere that there was not a continuous succession ofabbesses during the whole period.
After removing to this new part of the church the remains of the three sainted abbesses and S.
If we allow ten years for the duration of the rule of the last two, we still have the names of the abbesses for only thirty-six years out of the one hundred and ninety-seven years that the institution lasted.
Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
In Saxony, the abbesses had the right to strike coins bearing their own portraits, notably the abbesses of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.
Abbesses took part in ecclesiastical synods and councils and assisted in the deliberations of national assemblies.
The Passage des Abbesses leads by an old flight of steps to Rue des Trois-Frères, a modern street.
Rue St-Lazare was, before 1770, Rue des Porcherons, from the name of an important estate of the district over which the abbesses of Montmartre had certain rights of jurisdiction.
With all abbesses it had become the ruling fancy, the pet ambition, to confess their own nuns, according to the practice allowed by St. Theresa.
Not less unwilling was she to uncover her soul, to confess to the Lady Superior, after the usual monastic custom of which the abbesses were particularly fond.
Abbesses though they might be, they were still the children who had played in their father's garden only a few weeks before.
The moment the rival abbesses had passed through a strong young novice seized hold of madame d'Estrées and forced her to the ground, keeping her there until every one of her companions was on the outside.
It is very amusing to read about, but at the time the affair made a great noise, and the other abbesses who were conscious of having neglected their vows had long felt very uneasy and watched anxiously what would happen next.
The son became in his turn the father of three daughters, two of whom were in succession abbesses of Hackness in Northumbria, founded by their grand-aunt S.
Bilfred, Acca, Alkmund the bishop, king Oswin, and the abbesses Ebba and Ethelgitha, being directed to them all by visions.
He permits abbessesto confess their nuns, conjointly with a priest.
Marcus, patriarch of Alexandria, asks Balzamon, a celebrated canonist of his time, whether permission should be granted to abbesses to hear confessions, to which Balzamon answers in the negative.
The writer speaks of 'the prosperous succession' of prelates and abbesses who ruled in the sacred city, ritu perpetuo, a strong expression, which points to a long series of successors in Kildare.
Hence, the prohibitions we have quoted could not have been of unknown occurrence among the fellow abbesses of Thalassia.
All theabbesses did not consider themselves slavishly bound to follow the uniform rule.
It was at least something to be addressed in correspondence by the great bishop of Rome as a coworker; and there are many letters extant written by Gregory to abbesses in various parts of the Western world.
She too was canonised; and so also were her successors the abbesses Ermenilda and Withburga.
While they were more amenable to the clergy than were the monks, the abbesses were nevertheless tenacious of their privileges.
Through the necessities of their office, the abbesses were brought into closer relationship with the outside world than were the other nuns.
Coming down to much later times, abbesses were summoned to attend or to send proxies to the king's council which was held to grant "an aid on the knighting the Prince of Wales.
Thus, in 649, the abbesses were summoned to the council at Becanceld, in Kent, and the names of five of them were subscribed to the constitutions which were there made, while the name of not a single abbot appears on the document.
The investigations with regard to the character of the abbots andabbesses need not concern us, as we have sufficiently noticed the looseness of conduct which prevailed in many of the religious houses.
Not only were the abbesses sued, but they themselves did not hesitate to institute legal proceedings in defence of what they believed were their rights.
One of the rules which was at one time in force prohibited abbesses from walking alone, thus placing them under the surveillance of the sisterhood.
They are the Abbesses of the Convents of the Virgin and St. Daniel.
The Abbesses have the Crosier-Staff, and both they and their Nuns depend solely upon the Doge, and not at all upon the Pope or the Court of Rome either in Spirituals or Temporals.
Your abbesses and prioresses have all passed through my hands, and you need have no fear if I visit your virginity.
Fourteen of the abbesses were princesses, and several of these were of the blood royal of France.
It is curious to note the hatred with which these married women pursued him while lady abbesses were his friends.
Among the letters to Boniface there are several from nuns and abbesses asking for his advice.
Coins also are extant which were struck by abbessesof Gandersheim, whose portraits they bear[460].
Scant notices are preserved of the abbesses who ruled during the first half of the 10th century.
Spirited nuns and independent-minded abbesses turn to account the possibilities open to them in a way which commands respect and repeatedly secures superstitious reverence in the outside world.
Among the gifts sent to Boniface by lady abbesses in England vestments and altar-cloths are mentioned which had without a doubt been worked in the houses over which these ladies presided if not actually made by themselves[605].
And between these two abbesses all the members of Herrad's congregation are drawn, six rows of women's heads placed one above the other.
Abbesses of many convents, convinced of Hildegard's being divinely inspired, wrote to her for advice concerning personal matters.
Among Anselm's correspondents were several abbesses of Wessex settlements, who seem to have been in no way prejudiced against him on account of the approval he gave to Matilda's leaving the cloister.
On one stands St Leodgar; on the next St Odilia with long tresses, and Duke Eticho; on the third the Virgin, also with long tresses, and below her the abbesses Relind and Herrad holding a book.
While fulfilling the duties which devolved on them in virtue of their station, abbesses did not neglect their opportunities of keeping in touch with culture and of widening their mental horizon.
Similar rights and privileges devolved on those abbesses in England who were baronesses in title of the land they held.
The Council of Aix-la-Chapelle, only eight years previously, had forbidden abbesses from taking upon themselves any priestly function.
Before the Conquest, abbesses sat in councils of the Church and signed its decrees; while kings were even dependent upon their consent in granting certain charters.
He had a quiet way with the abbesses and prioresses, and with the anchorites and bishops a way of simplicity which was vastly admired in a divine emissary.
In many places we may even behold an inversion of the natural order of things, whereby the abbesses and nuns have authority over the clergy, and even over those who are themselves in charge of the people.
Towards the end of the century, episcopal visitations began, and the Bishop of Winchester looked into various disorders that had grown up among the abbesses and sisters.
In this chapter will be narrated any incidents connected with the lives of the abbesses and the nuns over whom they ruled that seem to the writer likely to be of interest to the general reader.
The bishops loved her as their child, the abbesses as their sister, and the world as their mother.
The abbesses which succeeded Heloise have often been of the greatest families in the kingdom.
Roswitha tells us how much she herself owed to the two successive abbesses under whose rule she lived, for suggestion, information, and encouragement in her literary work.
Abbesses seem to have been tenacious of their privileges, and to have known how to resist the encroachments of the clergy when any interference was attempted.
Abbesses were forbidden, in the reign of his successor, to walk alone, and thus were placed, in some degree, under the surveillance of the sisterhood.
The Saxon abbesses were invested with immense powers, and owed obedience to none save the Pope.
Charlemagne prohibited abbessesfrom laying hands on any one, or pronouncing the blessing.
Abbesses were required to furnish military service by proxy.
Much of the deference paid them was doubtless on account of their high rank, abbesses being always of good birth, and frequently of royal blood.
The Parliamentary writ bears the names of the abbesses of Wilton, Wynton or Winchester, Shaftesbury, and Barking, then spelt Berkeyngg.
On account of the property and lands belonging to convents, abbesses and prioresses were constantly brought into relationship with the outer world, and not always in a very pleasant way.
From the Girvian Princes to the Abbesses of Ely, from the Abbesses to the Abbots, from the Abbots to the Bishops that Palatinate jurisdiction had been handed on for twelve hundred years;--and this was its sordid close.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abbesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
