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  • Saint Teresa of the Andes, known formally as Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, (July 13, 1900 – April 12, 1920) was a Chilean nun canonized ...
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  • visited Ryōkan. Around 1826 he met a young nun, Teishin, who became his sole ... == The Nun Teishin == When Ryōkan was 69 years old, he met a young ...
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  • in the process of becoming a monk or nun in the Buddhist or any other ... of these rules. A novice monk or nun in the Tibetan tradition takes ...
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  • that she had never taken vows as a nun. A well-educated woman, Matilda ... over whether or not she had taken vows as a nun and would thus be ineligible ...
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  • master, and one would not ask a random monk or nun to perform the ceremony.) The monastic and disciple then engage in a dialoge, with the monastic ...
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  • leaders of the Revolt, in his satiric "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of The Canterbury Tales. Froissart's Chronicles devotes ...
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  • Hōjō Masako (北条 政子, 1156- 1225) is known in Japanese history as the “nun shogun” or “ama shogun” (尼将軍) because of her ...
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  • Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (also: Brigit, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd or Bride - c. 451–525) was an Irish nun, abbess, and founder ...
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  • *1959 The Nun's Story *1960 The Sundowners *1962 PT-109 *1964 My Fair Lady *1965 The Great Race *1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ...
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  • Bodhidharma gave transmission to a nun named Dharani (although Bodhidharma ... Zanggao) not only gave transmission to the nun Miao-tao, but he also designated ...
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  • St. Catherine de Ricci (1522-1590), a Dominican nun, came to be known for her highly mystical life, especially for her ecstasies of the Passion ...
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  • Two of the tales, The Knight's Tale and The Second Nun's ... Again, however, tales such as the Nun's Priest's Tale ...
    31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
  • became an idolatrous priest, a suspended nun was inserted to turn Mosheh ... because they resemble the Hebrew letter nun ( נ ) written upside down ...
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  • of her life, Murasaki decided to become a nun, but Genji never allowed this ... to a convent to live out her life as a nun. The novel which began as ...
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  • Joshua was the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim. The Hebrew pronunciation ... is initially given as "Hoshea son of Nun." The spies are sent ...
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  • 30, 1897 || 1997 || French || Discalced Carmelites (Nun) |- |} *Also venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church. ===Other parts of the Roman Catholic ...
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  • #039;s The Canterbury Tales (1392). In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", a vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on Syn March bigan ...
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  • Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, 1195), was a twelfth century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in ...
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  • the Holy Face"), was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonized as a saint ... him. Zélie-Marie had tried to become a nun, but was told she did not ...
    22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
  • his mother, a Kuchean princess, became a nun, he followed her into monastic ... from her husband to become a Buddhist nun and joined the Tsio-li nunnery ...
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