Similar ordinances were passed in relation to the other nunneries in the territory of Zurich.
They had seventy-five monasteries and twenty-six nunneriesin England, including some of the largest and finest in the kingdom.
There were few nunneries of the order--none in England.
Jessop, throw some interesting light on the inner life and social working of the nunneries of East Anglia.
It was printed privately some few years ago, and is here reproduced as affording, in the judgment of some, a not uninteresting glimpse into the cloister life and work led in the nunneries in the early days of the fifteenth century.
According to Robert Aske, the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, one of the reasons why the Yorkshire people strongly resented their overthrow, was because "in nunneries their daughters were brought up in virtue.
So he went riding back and forth, stopping at cities and towns, nunneries and monasteries, until his name became a familiar one to every scholar of England, Germany and Italy.
At nunneries and monasteries were always guest-chambers for the great, and they were usually occupied.
Europe was then dotted with monasteries, nunneries and other church institutions.
The Church, however, does not support this last belief, because in most nunneries the sisters are forbidden to keep any animals except cats, which evidently belong less to this world than dogs, the companions of secular warriors.
In nunneries about the same divisions of time are applied, although chaplains have to come in to say mass.
It enabled them to fill their schools and nunneries with the children of Protestants, who were compelled by law to pay for their education by Jesuit priests.
The persecutions to which Huguenot women and children were exposed caused a sudden enlargement of all the prisons and nunneries in France.
St. Modwena had before established two famous nunneriesin Scotland, one at Stirling, the other in Edinburgh.
St. Ignatius forbade the fathers of his Society to undertake the direction of nunneries on the following occasion.
Here and there a stubborn recusant was anticipated, but were there not monasteries and nunneries enough to be confiscated, and lands and revenues to be given away, to satisfy those benighted adherents to the old faith?
These nunneries are intended for young ladies of little fortunes and bigh birth.
The monasteries became, under these conditions, dens of iniquity, and the nunneries were no better.
In Tibet, as in other Buddhist countries, there are nunneries as well as Lamaseries.
The women of the nunneries are quite as immoral as their brethren of the Lamaseries, and at their best they are but a low type of humanity.
In some of these nunneries strict confinement is actually enforced.
The most original in plan as well as in decoration of all the buildings of this time is the church of the nunnery of São Domingos at Elvas, like nearly all nunneries in the kingdom now fast falling to pieces.
The honourable position of the wife among the Germans secured special respect for the abbess, and obtained for the most famous nunneries exemption, civil prerogatives and proprietary, even princely rights.
Accompanied by her daughter Eustochium, she followed him to Palestine, and founded three nunneries at Bethlehem.
From nunneries governed and visited by priests of such a character, what is the logical inference?
Thus Charlemagne issued an ordinance in the year 802, in which it says: "the nunneries shall be closely guarded.
But neither their institutions nor the nunneries could shelter all those who sought help and protection.
Some young girls of good families were boarded at nunneries to be taught there.
All the nunneries in the United States have a mother abbess, like the nuns of Lerma.
But it will be said, there are no lying-in hospitals attached to nunneries in this country.
The nunnery to which she was sent, as I have heretofore stated, had attached to it a fashionable school; all nunneries have such.
Nunneries were generally under the superintendence of the local clergy, who were responsible to the bishop, and if there were any disorders, an official was sent down to inquire into the matter.
It was in the nunneries that the education of girls of all classes was carried on.
This also is evidence regarding the interior politics of the nunneries of that time.
The former fanatical enthusiasm for celibacy had greatly subsided; bishops and priests not infrequently were married, and even the nunneries gave occasion for lively stories which became traditional.
For a very full study of the whole subject of English convent life at this period see Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries c.
The great purpose for which the nunneries existed, and which most of them fulfilled not unworthily, was the praise of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nunneries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
