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- the liturgy.[failed verification] An abbess serves for life, except in Italy and some adjacent islands. Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according...
- Abbesses (French pronunciation: [abɛs], literally Abbesses) is a station on Paris Métro Line 12, in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondis****t...
- The Abbess: A Romance is a gothic novel by William Henry Ireland first published in 1799. The text was modelled upon Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796). The...
- The following is a list of abbots and abbesses of Kildare, heads of Kildare Abbey, foundedaccording to tradition — by Saint Brigit. Brigit ingen Dubthaig...
- prince-bishops. They ranked higher than the imperial abbots and imperial abbesses who although they were also immediate, held only two collective votes in...
- Shane Abbess is an Australian filmmaker best known for making the movies Gabriel and Infini. For a time he was attached to direct Source Code and The Dark...
- and responsibilities. The abbess had precedence over all the other abbesses in England. She was also one of four abbesses who, "holding of the king by...
- This is a list of the princess-abbesses of Quedlinburg Abbey. Johann Heinrich Fritsch: Geschichte des vormaligen Reichsstifts Quedlinburg pt 2, 1828, pp...
- constantly engaged in a dispute with the abbesses, as they claimed to have spiritual jurisdiction over the abbey. The abbess, as head of an Imperial Abbey, had...
- Wivina (1103–1168) was a Benedictine abbess. Born in Oisy, France, she refused all offers of marriage, becoming, aged 23, a hermitess at Groot-Bijgaarden...