Etheldreda, the Foundress Saint in the Church of Ely), and with his own hand robbed it of its metal.
Etheldreda, the foundress saint of Ely, that we find any secular element.
The foundress of Sydney Sussex College was the Lady Frances Sidney, one of the learned ladies of the court of Elizabeth.
The amount spent by the Foundress during her lifetime is not ascertainable; but the cost, as given in the household books of the Lady Margaret after her death, was more than L1000.
Goodman, who gave to the college that portrait of the foundress which hangs above the high table in the college hall.
I would hie me to Dumfries and see with my own eyes the bridge which the foundress of Balliol had caused to be built: and on my pilgrimage I might perchance regain some of my self-respect.
The pious foundress of this college also built an Abbey in Kirkcudbrightshire and threw a bridge over the Nith at Dumfries.
The monks who had the charge of providing a stone coffin suitable for the reception of the remains of the foundress are said to have "found" one of marble among the ruins of Grantchester, the name of the old town of Cambridge.
The shrine of the foundress was placed some feet further to the east, its eastern face standing about twelve feet in front of the existing altar.
But the remains of the foundressand others must first be removed to their new resting-place.
To endow and provide for her monastery, the foundress assigned her entire principality of the isle.
Ovin has been named in the account of the foundress as being her chief agent, to whom was entrusted the civil government of her territory.
Mance, the foundress of the Montreal hospital, Sister Bourgeoys, and two Sulpicians, MM.
She was one of the first, and altogether the greatest, among the spiritual daughters of the Blessed Madeleine Sophie Barat, so well known as the Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart.
To the sincerity of her estimate of herself, her letters to the Mother Foundress bear ample testimony.
Seven years later, the Foundress brought up the matter again, as there was an excellent subject on the mission at Quebec, who was well calculated to discharge the duties of Superior.
Gannensagouach was not the only person of her tribe who became remarkable for virtue in the Sisters' school, and on whom the illustrious Foundress lavished care, labor, and money.
And if the Foundress of the Congregation did not entirely overcome the weakness of human nature, she constantly advanced in the holy paths of mortification, obedience, sacrifice of self, and submission to the will of God.
It was by direction of this superior the Foundress wrote the beautiful instructions and maxims that have always been regarded as the richest inheritance of her spiritual children.
The visionary (for as such, only should she be regarded) went again to inform the Foundress of what had transpired, and at this second blow the poor superior succumbed, appearing to be indeed stricken by the anger of God.
It was the holy Foundress who secured this acquisition, and who retained, in spite of herself, the greatest influence in the government of the Congregation.
From the age in which she lived, she is thought by some to have been the first foundress of nunneries, of religious women living in community, as St. Antony was of men.
The foundress reminds them in so many words that, being at the gates of Versailles as they are, there is no medium for them between a very strict or a very scandalous establishment.
It is in quarto, and bears the following title: "The Life of the Holy Mother St. Teresa, Foundress of the Reformation of the Discalced Carmelites according to the Primitive Rule.
Francesca Romana, when that saint, Francesca de' Ponziani, foundress of the Order of Oblates, was buried here.
It was in this palace that the notorious Olympia Maldacchini, foundress of the Pamfili fortunes, besported herself during the reign of her brother-in-law, Innocent X.
She is the foundress of the establishment, the mother of the actual workers, the grandmother of the present grubs.
We will accept the Scolia as the pioneer, the foundress of the first principles of the art.
It was on the 21st of March, the festival of St. Benedict, that she entered its walls, not as the foundress but as a humble suppliant for admission.
In this class of saints may well be included Francesca Romana, thefoundress of the religious order of the Oblates of Tor di Specchi.
As the opponents of the community continued their attacks the foundress was summoned to Rome to make her defence (1629), but in the following year the decree of suppression was issued.
In 1535 the foundress succeeded in bringing a few of them together into a small community.
If human sacrifices were here burnt to the goddess Dido, just as the supposed foundressof Carthage is said to have burnt herself,[546] her sister Anna, i.
The future foundress never had any personal communication with the Curé d'Ars, and yet he always used to say, "I know her.
It was on the 27th of December, the feast of the disciple whom Jesus loved, the great apostle of charity, that the foundress and five other Sisters made their first vows.
One day the foundress had not a single penny left, and was, to use a common expression, at her wits' end.
This time the foundress had recourse to our Lady of Victories.
Mother Ursula Benincasa, the foundress of an order called the Theatine Hermits, was, according to Ventura, the bulwark of orthodoxy in the kingdom of Naples.
Fabiola, another of St. Jerome’s scholars, was the foundress of the first hospital absolutely established in Rome.
Intellectually endowed and gifted with great firmness of character, she became the mother and foundress of the monastery of St. Rupert, in the Rhine provinces, where kings and statesmen repaired to her for advice and instruction.
The foundress put upon it the seal of her parsimony, or, rather, of her general timidity.
The foundresspresented hers, which came to no more than twenty-five thousand crowns.
Madame de Maintenon received much praise and incense as the foundress of this community.
If the Foundress occasionally happened to be absent for a short time on some errand of mercy, they were inconsolable until her return, which they greeted with joyous acclamations.
She was the last pupil to whom the venerated Foundress rendered the final services.
Besides the trial to their feelings, the separation from their Foundress was a source of serious pecuniary embarrassment to the Ursulines.
During the six months which the malady lasted, these heroines of charity seemed to vie with each other in the performance of the most bumbling and revolting offices, the Foundress setting the example of self-abnegation and devotedness.
For their accommodation, the house formerly occupied by the Foundress was rebuilt and enlarged in 1836.
The Foundress claimed it as her right, because as she said, she was fit for nothing else, but others thought themselves entitled to the honour too, so finally a compromise was agreed on, and all had their turn.
Five months only before the Mother of the Incarnation, the gentle, pious Foundresswas called away, after a violent and short attack of pleurisy.
Its foundressin the time of the first Edward, a certain Lady Matilda, one of the Plantagenets, who retired from the world after her husband had been killed in the Crusade, being childless, endowed it with all her lands.
Hilda, the foundress and first abbess of Whitby, was a princess of the blood-royal and a grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria.
Note 53: A seeming contradiction to the assertions in the text may be discovered in the circumstance that Elizabeth is the nominal foundress of Jesus College Oxford.
This earl left no children, and his widow became the munificent foundress of Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge.
France, foundressof the Order of the Annunciation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foundress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
