By their ordination vows the deaconesses devoted themselves to the care of the poor, the sick and the young; but their engagements were not final--they might leave their work and return to ordinary life if they chose.
Among his later efforts may be mentioned the Christian house of refuge for female servants in Berlin (connected with which other institutions soon arose) and the "house of evening rest" for retired deaconesses at Kaiserswerth.
She began with two sisters, of whom she sent one to the Deaconesses of Bethany at Berlin to be taught.
The Deaconesses of Bucharest wear a dark grey costume, with a white veil and apron, which are picturesquely arranged.
The order of deaconesses appears to have been mainly composed of pious widows, and only those were eligible who had had but one husband.
She had to let me go now because one of the visitin' deaconesses let out that she'd seen me there sixteen years ago herself, an' I was toddlin' round then.
The importance of trained deaconesses in times of war is now well understood by the military authorities at Berlin.
In the twelfth century there were still deaconesses at Constantinople.
An effort has been made to obtain for the order of deaconesses a wider recognition than it now enjoys, as it simply has the support of the bishop within whose diocese the deaconesses are at work.
There are many devout Christian women in every community who have for years beendeaconesses in labors, if not in title and prerogatives.
This is partly a necessity, from the fact that the city is on the border-land between two great nations and if the deaconesses are to be effective they must be familiar with the spoken and written speech of both peoples.
Thoburn, also presented a memorial asking for the institution of an order of deaconesses who should have authority to administer the sacrament to the women of India.
One of these movements well worth our study originated in Belgium while the last of the Greek deaconesses were still daily walking the arched pathway that led to their church in Constantinople.
So the want of deaconesses is a continual hinderance to the furtherance of the cause, both in the city and the provinces.
The General Assembly provided that deaconesses should be solemnly inducted into their office at a religious service in church.
She says: “The difficulty [of having deaconesses in England] is, the real submission of the will there must be.
We have no reason to envy those who seek to imitate our Sisters of Charity like the deaconesses of Kaiserswerth and Florence Nightingale.
Men and women were baptized separately, deaconesses officiating in the case of the women.
Acting as Nurses in Hospitals, as is done by the Prussian Protestant Deaconesses of Kaiserswerth, who are scattered over the East and doing a work of peculiar value.
Training Schools for Deaconesses have been established in various parts of the country where candidates for this office receive special instruction and are trained for their work.
This order of Deaconesses continued until about the seventh century, when the changed conditions of the Church interfered with its usefulness.
Hannah conducted Arsinoe to Paulina's villa, first into a small room at the side of the entrance hall, where the deaconesses took off their veils and their warm wraps in winter evenings.
The deaconesses came into the room and took seats at the lower end of the table, Paulina, the widow of Pudeus, taking her place opposite the bishop in the middle of the other women.
Hannah went past the assembly with a reverential greeting into the adjoining room in which the deaconesses sat waiting, for women were not admitted to join or hear the deliberations of the elders.
She could not fail to appear, for she was one of the deaconesses entrusted with the distribution of alms and the care of the sick.
Soon after Selene's martyrdom dame Hannah quitted Besa; the office of Superior of the Deaconesses at Alexandria was intrusted to her, and she exercised it with much blessing till an advanced age.
He found the whole country covered with Christians, and the Church organised, with deaconesses even, as in Greece and Ephesus.
The picture of the saintly slave deaconesses tortured for their faith within ten years of St. John's death is an interesting confirmation of the faith.
Authorized Version took the passage as referring to deacons' wives, but many scholars think that by "women" deaconesses are meant.
In 1833 Pastor Fleidner founded "an order of deaconesses for the Rhenish provinces of Westphalia" at Kaiserswerth.
They weredeaconesses and elders, and were ordained and administered the sacrament.
Neither widows nor deaconesses could teach, the Church being especially jealous in this respect and in substantial agreement with Sophocles, who said, "Silence is a woman's ornament.
Widows of sixty and over retained the power which had been given, and a new order arose,--deaconesses who were not allowed marriage.
There is a hospital in Pittsburg in charge of some deaconesses from Kaiserwerth.
The establishment of institutions for deaconesses affords a home to the unmarried women of our land, and widows without children, and furnishes them with such work as their health and previous employments fit them for.
We read of deaconesses in the last chapter of Romans, Phoebe, Priscilla, Aquila, &c.
The Bishop of Exeter recommended the establishment of such orders in England, and an institution for deaconesses has been opened in London.
In Russia, the system for the practical training of deaconesses has spread in all directions.
The deaconesses were not cloistered: they lived at home with children or relatives.
The ancient order of deaconesses imposed no vow, yet it was co-existent with the early church, and accepted by many of the fathers as part of the apostolic order.
In the year 1691 deaconesses were chosen to act in this Church.
It was believed that for the special duty of visiting the sick and afflicted in the communitydeaconesses would be more useful than deacons.
It was much desired by several of the first-settled ministers that there should be deaconessesin the New England Puritan church, and many good reasons were given for making such appointments.
Young women coming as strangers are urged not to seek advice from any but uniformed officers, deaconessesand Traveller’s Aid Secretaries.
V Having lived and learnt among the Protestant Deaconesses in Germany, Miss Nightingale was next determined to do the like among the Catholic Sisters in France.
It was the more remarkable because many of the Deaconesses had been only peasants--none were gentlewomen (when I was there).
Eleven centuries later, a Protestant pastor of Kaiserswerth repaid the debt to the British Isles by founding the famous Institution for Deaconesses which was now to give Florence Nightingale an important part of her training.
He also sends greeting to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who, with Persis, were probably deaconesses serving the church at Rome.
As we have already noticed, the order of deaconessesdid not consist exclusively of widows; it was, however, confined to those females who were free from all matrimonial obligations.
Still more scandalous was the conduct of the order of deaconesses who, while not following the fashions of the court, yet adorned their austere garb "with an immodest coquetry which made them more piquant than an ordinary courtesan.
But the order of deaconesses does not seem to have lasted long.
That school had sent out hundreds of deaconessesand other workers.
He told about the deaconesses who managed the hospital at Manchester, and the training school which Marcia Dayne Carbrook had attended when she was getting ready to go to China.
They were all respectable-looking people, both men and women; there were two deaconesses among the latter, and they seemed the pleasantest of them all.
Everything else is ready, and thedeaconesses will help you.
One of the deaconesses came over in the afternoon and assumed the management of affairs; she brought strange servants with her; their home seemed broken up, and the scouring and cleaning sounded like the planing of a coffin.
Let the deaconessesstand at the entries of the women" (Apost.
But even if deaconesses are not treated of at all in that passage, the limit of age seems quite out of place, if they are identical with the widows.
Now, if widows and deaconesseswere identical, unmarried "widows" would have been quite common, for unmarried deaconesses were quite common.
In the middle recension of the Ignatian Epistles we read "I salute the keepers of the holy doors, the deaconesses in Christ" (Ant.
It is quite in harmony with the fact that the deaconesses were ordained, while the widows were not, that the widows are placed under the deaconesses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deaconesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
