A large proportion of this property belongs to the convents in Manila, whose great revenues not only enable them to engage in extensive mercantile operations, but to lend considerable sums to the merchants on bottomry.
They are said to keep their convents full of bevies of pretty girls, and to lead somewhat the same sort of life as the Grand Turk.
The convents in this part of the country are large, imposing buildings, and their incumbents, who were mostly old men, were most hospitable and kind to me.
Tolben, I visited one of the convents where he attended on some of the monks who were sick; he seemed well acquainted with them all.
Churches, chapels, and convents were involved in indiscriminate ruin.
Meanwhile he ordered the bells in all the churches and convents throughout the Netherlands to be tolled thrice a day for four mouths, and during that time that no festivals or public rejoicings of any kind should take place.
Yet these could not furnish accommodations for the number, and many were removed to the ordinary prisons, and even to convents and private dwellings.
The quantity of gold and silver plate purloined from the churches and convents was immense.
She was liberal in her benefactions to convents and colleges; and their cloistered inmates showed their gratitude by the most lavish testimony to her deserts.
Even the sanctity of the conventsdid not save them from pollution.
The convulsions of the Flagellants of the thirteenth century, and of the Protestant Revivalists of the present day, exhibit on a large scale the paroxysms of the French convents and the Dutch orphan-houses of the seventeenth century.
Well-disposed" persons, with a good word from the priests, can obtain food at the convents of the mendicant friars.
A large portion of the convents and clerical endowments would be suppressed, and the present generation of priests would be heavy sufferers.
The priests, the churches, and the convents give a great deal of employment to the working classes.
From these labours in churches and convents art in Spain received a religious imprint and direction which it has never lost, and from which it is only now turning in the present generation.
Then they would build a house for the priests, and two convents for the nuns.
The colony, it will be observed, was for the convents, not the convents for the colony.
The two libraries thus formed by Cosimo for the Conventsof S.
In exploring foreign convents where he suspected that ancient authors might lie buried, he spared neither trouble nor expense.
He assumed the habit in the famous convent of Nuestra Senora de Atocha at Madrid, and studied arts and theology in the royal convents of Sancta Cruz at Segovia, and Sancto Thomas at Avila.
The religious have erected two little convents and churches, about like shepherds' huts in appearance.
The convent and convents which might be established there were accepted; and the patronage of the Virgin of the Pillar was extended over all the Christian churches which might be formed there.
On the thirteenth of December, 1618, they found two convents and captured four religious, two of our order, Fray Angel Ferrer and Fray Juan de Sancto Domingo, with some Japanese.
Even some new convents were established; for instance that of San Telmo at Cavite.
In this province he had governed many of the best convents with great approbation; and his term as provincial was very useful to the province, augmenting it greatly, as will be narrated.
If this fails, as often happens, it is necessary for the religious to support them by giving them the little they themselves have, and asking alms from the other convents of Nueva Segovia.
Leaving the convents out of the question, the Church helped the cause of woman and of humanity by its constant endeavor to repress violence.
There were other learned nuns, though none famous in the French literature of the time, all of whom gained their knowledge in convents; for it was in conventsalone that women could ordinarily receive any education at all.
At the time of which we write, the standard of learning in the convents was higher than one would think, and higher than it was some centuries later; for Latin was still used familiarly among some of the women educated in convents.
Her own conduct, we have remarked, was above reproach, and her convent was so well governed that its rule became the standard for all the conventsof her day.
About the same time he issued a mandate, requesting the churches andconvents to contribute all the church silver that was not positively indispensable in the Divine service to the national treasury.
In many districts the Senussi convents supply the only settled element, and the local Bedouins largely belong to the Order.
Cullera is a walled town, containing a ruined Moorish citadel, large barracks, several churches and convents and a hospital.
Their convents were wealthy and powerful, their minsters and houses were the glory of the land, their officials ranked with the nobles, and the greatness of the whole house reflected dignity upon each of its monks.
The usual regulation in conventswas that the abbot should entertain all guests of gentle degree, while the convent entertained all others.
While the convents subsisted, monks were detached on regular circuits through the wilder districts, to marry those who had lived in this species of connexion.
And yet we have seen the revenues of convents expended, not only in acts of beneficence and hospitality to individuals, but in works of general and permanent advantage to the world at large.
In some of the convents of France, the sisters go through a course of training to prepare them for the duties of housekeepers, and are then sent to take charge of religious and charitable institutions connected with their church.
He thought the Irish succeed, many of whom learn in the convents of their own country to use the needle well.
Franciscan convents take the place of the guardians, when these latter for any reason are called away from home.
The property of the Catholic nobility and gentry has been confiscated; many churches and colleges and almost all the convents and monasteries, have been stripped of their possessions, or suppressed.
His rich collection of anecdotes for the illustration of religious truths was the favourite recreative reading in the convents for three centuries, and exercised great influence over the thought of the later Middle Ages.
Such cases as that of St. Anthony are typical of its effects upon the strongest minds; but it was especially the convents for women that became the great breeding-beds of this disease.
The convents alone found in their policy a sort of protection.
John Ostrorog complained that all the rich convents were occupied by foreign monks.
In 1008 duke Boleslav, the son of Miecislav, invited Benedictine monks to Poland, who founded convents at Sieciechov and Lysagora, with schools attached to them.
Thus it never was fully established in Bohemia with the exception of a few churches, attached to convents founded expressly in memory of the Slavic saints, Jerome, Cyril, and Methodius.
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries many convents were founded and schools attached to them; German artists and mechanics and even agriculturists settled in Bohemia.
Their renown penetrated from the convents to the court; where they were performed before Tzar Fedor, the predecessor of Peter.
It was probably the portal of some church in ancient times; for I was assured by the inhabitants of the village that there are many ruins of churches and conventsstill to be seen in the neighbouring rocky mountains.
We saw many other small conventson the top of these mountains, one of which, called Oozier, was, as we were here told, in the hands of ten or twelve Latin friars.
The churches and convents were ruthlessly despoiled of their treasures, and many a fine Murillo and Velasquez was despatched to Paris to decorate his salons.
Women were not safe either in convents or in their own houses.
They stopped everywhere, receiving the ready hospitality of the conventsin every awful pass of the rocks and stony waste where such homes of penance were planted.
Bethlehem, convents founded at, by Jerome and Paula, 82.
His wife had entered one of the convents of the Poor Clares, when he was wandering in the Apennines, and was far from him.
The voice of prayer was silenced in the land, no more was psalm sung or mass said; a few convents were permitted by special grace, in the night, with closed doors and whispering voices, to celebrate the holy mysteries.
Eustochium quietly took up the guidance of her mother's conventsand hospice and gently urged Jerome to resume his work.
Indeed, after her own was builded she had two other convents put up near by, and these were soon filled with devotees.
The note was responded to from the belfry of every church, and from the sweet bells of the convents among the mountains.
Mr. Ffoulke had secured the services of a score of patient nuns in the convents of Florence, who were engaged in the careful restoration of the frayed and torn, but valuable fabrics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
