- A
postulant (from Latin: postulare, "to ask") was
originally one who
makes a
request or demand; hence, a candidate. The use of the term is now generally...
- a monk, one
first must be
accepted by a
community as a
postulant.
During the time of
postulancy the man
lives at the
monastery to test his vocation, to...
- 3-month
Postulancy or Probation. An
Inquirer may
apply multiple times to
become a
Postulant.
Three months or more
after applying, the
Christian Postulant is...
- dropped. In 1867, the year in
which the
community welcomed its
first postulant,
debts were so
serious that the
property was put up for
public auction...
-
requirements for the
duration of the novitiate. The
novice must
complete a
postulancy before being admitted to the novitiate, the
duration of
which can be short...
-
death in 1949.
During her reign,
Maria von
Trapp entered the
abbey as a
postulant. Lütz is the
basis for the
Mother Abbess character in The
Sound of Music...
- 1891 was made up of
three Sisters and one
postulant from Sneem, one
Sister from Mitchelstown, one
postulant from
Tipperary and
three from Cork. In May...
- write: At one
stage in the
initiation procedure,
Christian tells us...the
postulant climbs down an iron ladder, with seventy-eight rungs, and
enters a hall...
- 1855) was a
priest of the
Eastern Rite
Ethiopian Catholic Church and
postulant from the
Congregation of the Mission. Born in 1791, he
became a monk in...
- the
Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1960 as a lay
postulant, but left less than a year
later to lay the
groundwork for his own religious...
