Canonesses in robes of ermine and purple, I always have esteemed your services; your rich attire, your loving graces, your cultivated minds, your ancient nobility will constantly attract friends to you.
The canonesses claim that we pilfer their friends away from them.
After this unwieldy introduction comes the main theme, which consists of a lawsuit brought by the nobly born canonesses against the grey Cistercian nuns, for the judgment of Venus.
This last charge pricks the canonesses and their faces grow scarlet with rage: What?
There was an old community of French Hospitaller Canonesses of Saint-Esprit.
The most important Congregations are the Sepulchrines or Canonessesof the Holy Sepulchre, and the Lateran Canonesses.
Near Sarrebuis, the canonesses of Loutre dine with the officers and are anything but prudish.
Fourteen houses were inhabited by Austin nuns or canonesses (including Sion), and two by nuns of the order of Premontre.
The term nun must be applied to these women with a reservation; some writers speak of them as Austin canonesses on account of the liberties they enjoyed.
In 1795, upon the suppression of the convent of the Canonesses of Picpus, S.
The abbey of Sainte-Perrine de Chaillot was founded by Philippe le Bel about 1300, in the forest of Compiègne for the canonesses of the order of S.
Annunziata, the Benedictines of San Nicolò in Boschetto, the Canonesses of S.
At the same time the two canonesses descended to their abbey in the plain, and thus with the closing in of winter the old Marchioness, Odo and his mother were left alone in the castle.
With a view to prepare him for this change, the canonessessuggested his attending them that year on their annual pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Oropa.
Next morning betimes all were afoot for the procession, which the canonesses were to witness from the monastery windows.
The canonesses often taught girls, and were also employed in embroidering ecclesiastical vestments and transcribing liturgical books.
The convent is splendid, the canonesses charming, and the education received by the young ladies under their charge leaves nothing to be desired.
There is but one house in the world of the "Dames de Berlaimont"--an order of canonesses who follow the rule of S.
Houses of nuns or canonessesfollowing the rule of St Augustine were few; but of their two abbeys, Burnham and Lacock, there are substantial remains.
The experiment languished, and although a body of nuns or canonesses followed the Premonstratensian rule, they had few houses.
Footnote 12: The actual removal of the Canonesses of Cambray took place a few months later.
Scotto’s highly characteristic lithograph no doubt reproduces an authentic likeness; and probably the original portrait was, in the first instance, owned by the Canonesses of S.
St. Augustine contains nothing that would be directly available,--an otherwise likely source considering Catherine’s close connection with the Augustinian Canonesses of S.
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