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  • the then powerful king of Ujjain, abducted a nun named Sarasvati, the sister of the monk. The enraged monk sought help of the Saka ruler, a Shahi ...
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  • might, for example, contend that both the life of a nun and that of a mother realize genuine values (in an objective and cognitivist sense), yet there ...
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  • son Fujiwara no Tamesuke (b. 1263) by the Nun Abutsu (died c. 1283). A poet ... :::"When Lord Tameie died, his wife, Lady Abutsu the Nun, took ...
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  • * Chorale Prelude "Nun freut euch liebe Christen" (Bach-Busoni) * Ecossaisen (Beethoven) * Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 & Etude Op. 10 No ...
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  • Kate Smith, the Beatles, James Brown, the Singing Nun, and The Doors. With the often-imitated, opening line, "tonight we are going to have ...
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  • she entered. She could have been a Benedictine nun before she became an anchoress or she could have known the local Beguines, the Roman Catholic ...
    13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
  • The cemetery where the Franciscan Clarist nun was buried sixty two years ago at St Mary’s Forane Church at Bharananganam has now been turned ...
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  • entered retirement, taking orders as a nun. Isabella has attracted the ... Nor can it be ignored that she was allowed to take orders as a nun ...
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  • Zhdanov, publicly labeled her "half harlot, half nun," and had her poems banned from publication. Zhdanov was a close associate of Stalin, who ...
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  • widowed Adelaide to marry his son, Adalbert. The nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim wrote: "Engorged with hatred and envy, Berengar directed his fury ...
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  • Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. Chastity includes abstinence from sexual intimacy for the unmarried ...
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  • father as his own concubine, and what's more a nun, if traditional history is to be believed, was found to be utterly shocking by Confucian moralists. ...
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  • into a four-fold order, namely monk (Sadhu), nun (Sadhvi), layman (Shravak), and laywoman (Shravika). This order is known as Chaturvidh Jain Sangh. ...
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  • bishop of the Greek island of Zakinthos, a Polish nun from Lithuania. and a French Protestant pastor. * Garden of the Righteous: The Garden of ...
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  • :Thy established-offering is thine, O Niw (Nun) together with Nn.t ... notes that the explicit parallel between Nun/Naunet and Amun/Amunet (the ...
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  • first Academic Dean, Therese Stewart, a former nun, Therese M. Stewart, My Life of Faith (Lulu Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1716143830). was female, ...
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  • The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council was a meeting of Christian leaders in the Roman Empire which established ...
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  • visitors, to give them a taste of what a monk or nun will experience living in a temple. Waking up to the morning bell, visitors practice meditation and ...
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  • work. Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, a Catholic nun, were married in 1973, whereupon both were excommunicated. Encyclopedia Britannica Online ...
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  • [[Image:NunofLebanon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Maronite nun from Mount Lebanon, painting from 1779.]] However, this Roman affiliation was to cost ...
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