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Santa Maria Novella is a
church in Florence, Italy,
situated opposite, and
lending its name to, the city's main
railway station. Chronologically, it is...
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Prior (or prioress) is an
ecclesiastical title for a
superior in some
religious orders. The word is
derived from the
Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its...
- congregation.
Superiors of
independent monasteries can also be
abbesses or
prioresses. The
religious sister dedicates her life to God and to the
service of...
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Armathwaite Nunnery was a
Benedictine nunnery in ****bria, England. It was
situated near the
confluence of the
rivers Croglin Water and Eden in the southern...
- Joan
Daugherty Chittister O.S.B. (born
April 26, 1936), is an
American Benedictine nun, theologian, author, and speaker. She has
served as Benedictine...
- him to be
buried by the high way side ... And upon his
grave the
sayde Prioresse did lay a very
fayre stone,
wherin the
names of
Robert Hood,
William of...
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Juliana Berners, O.S.B., (or
Barnes or Bernes) (born 1388), was an
English writer on heraldry,
hawking and hunting, and is said to have been
prioress of...
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Originally called the
nunnery of
Lekeley from the name of the land it was
built upon, the
former nunnery of
Seaton is to the
north of the
parish of Bootle...
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Elsey Abbey,
earlier Elsey Priory (German:
Kloster Elsey), is a
former women's
religious house located near Elsey, now part of Hohenlimburg, Hagen, Germany...
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Flixton Priory was a
nunnery under a
prioress following the
Augustinian rule,
which formerly stood in the
parish of
Flixton in the
north of the English...
