- A
convent is an
enclosed community of monks, nuns,
friars or
religious sisters. Alternatively,
convent means the
building used by the community. The term...
- ****umption that "
nunnery" was used that way in slang, or that
Hamlet intended such a meaning. The
context of the
scene suggests that a
nunnery would not be...
-
Cultural Revolution. It is the
largest and
oldest Tibetan nunnery in India.
Since most of the
nunneries in
Tibet are no
longer operational, it may be the largest...
-
incorporated English nunneries were
Tarrant Kaines in
Dorset and
Marham Abbey in Norfolk. As
Williams has recorded: "Six
Lincolnshire nunneries that
claimed to...
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Hogshaw Nunnery was a
nunnery in Hogshaw, Buckinghamshire, England. In the 15th
century it
became the
Hogshaw Commandery, ****ociated with the Knights...
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deaths of
hundreds of Muslims. In addition, more than 8,300 monasteries,
nunneries and
pagodas were destro**** by the quake. The
ongoing civil war in Myanmar...
- men and boys are
funded by the
state or have
private benefactors, but
nunneries receive no
government funding.
According to
Bhutan Nuns Foundation, many...
- The Benedictines,
officially the
Order of
Saint Benedict (Latin: Ordo
Sancti Benedicti,
abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a
mainly contemplative monastic...
- The Iona
Nunnery was an
Augustinian convent of nuns
located on the
island of Iona in the
Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was
established sometime after...
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river to the right.
There are also
shown the watermills,
provided by the
nunneries in Zürich at the
location of the
present Rathausbrücke and southernly...
