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  • As the first Franciscan nun, at age 18, Clare was the natural leader ... She did not use the French word for "nun" but only "sister ...
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  • The Nun's Story in 1959, was one of her most daring roles, and ... Actress four more times; for Sabrina, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at ...
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  • 41 Lucia became a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun until her death. She later ... She lived at the convent as a simple nun until her death at the age ...
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  • Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...
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  • monks, Daofu, Daoyu, and Huike, and the nun Zongchi. Bodhidharma asked ... said, "You have attained my skin." Nun Zongchi said, "My view ...
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  • (novice monk) or Samini/Shramanerika (novice nun), one can take the exam to become a fully ordained monk or nun (Bikkhu/Bikkhuni). After 10 years ...
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  • is the idea that the moral life of a nun is incompatible with that of a mother, with no purely rational measure to decide which is preferable ...
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  • 18, she left home to become a Roman Catholic nun and join the Sisters of Loreto ... she was asking to fulfill a calling as a nun but outside the confines of ...
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  • include Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ BuxWV 188, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein BuxWV 210, Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren BuxWV 213, and ...
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  • *The Singing Nun (1966) *What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) *Dear Dead Delilah (1972) *Charlotte's Web (1973) * Frankenstein: The ...
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  • The Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit) or Tipiṭaka (Pāli) meaning: "three baskets"), is the formal term for the earliest surviving canon of ...
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  • Eventually, she determined to take a vow of virginity and become a nun. This presented still more trials and difficulties to Rose, as once again ...
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  • begged to be able to enter a temple and become a nun rather than enter into a marriage. Her father allowed her to work in the temple, but asked the ...
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  • Ananda (Chinese: 阿難, A Nan or 阿難陀, A Nan Tuo) was one of the ten great disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. He was renowned ...
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  • She returned to MGM for a role in The Singing Nun (1966), starring ... | The|Singing Nun|dab=film | Mother Prioress | |- | 1967 ...
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  • *נ (Nun) *ג (Gimel) *ה (Hey) *ש (Shin) These letters are an acronym ... *Nun - nisht - "not" - nothing happens and the next player spins ...
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  • Lady lives out the last years of her life as a nun. ==See also== *Genpei War ==References== *De Bary, William Theodore, and Irene Bloom. Approaches ...
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  • * Nun Yax Ayin – C.E. 370-411. Nun Yax Ayin was a noble from Teotihuacan who was installed on Tikal's throne in 379 by Siyaj K'ak'. ...
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  • “Botamochi-dera,” houses Sazikini (nun) and Saemonnojou Sukenobu ... *Tokeiji Temple – Founded in 1285 by a nun who rescued many wives ...
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  • occurred in Aix-en-Provence in 1611 involving a nun who named a certain Father Jean-Baptiste Gaufridi as a bewitcher of young nuns. Beelzebub was famously ...
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  • first female convert. Taking her precepts as a nun, or bhikkhuni, she was later described by the Buddha as a perfect disciple. On one occasion, she ...
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  • became a published writer and later an Anglican nun. In the 1840s the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health forced him ...
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  • In June, 1523, he married a former nun, Ottilie von Gerson. In November, he was interrogated by George Spalatin and Frederick the Wise. Luther ...
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  • of her published works, which reads, "Marie ai nun, si sui de France." (Translated, this means, "My name is Marie, I am from France. ...
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  • day. A sequel to the book, Requiem for a Nun, is the only play that Faulkner ... * Requiem for a Nun (1951) * A Fable (1954) * The Reivers (1962) ...
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  • a Benedictine may technicaly be a monk, nun or oblate. Most monasteries ... London 1926, translated from the French by a nun of Tyburn Convent) ...
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  • * Leonora d'Este (July 3, 1515 - July 15, 1575). A nun. * Francesco d'Este, Marchese di Massalombarda (November 1, 1516 - February 2, 1578). ...
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  • with him, and then travels to Europe to become a nun. Recktall Brown is the unscrupulous art dealer who moves Wyatt's paintings onto the international ...
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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 ...
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  • 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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  • type, with financial support from the Buddhist nun Myodeok, who is believed to have turned to Buddhism after becoming disenchanted with her life in ...
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  • the absence of pastoral care for the Nun of Watton and her case of pregnancy while within a Gilbertine convent. It is believed by some that he ...
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  • followed by Moses mi-Trani (1590), Joshua ben Nun (1592), Naphtali Ashkenazi (1600), Baruch Barzillai (1650), and Meïr Barzillai (1680). ...
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  • of Canaan who were killed by Joshua son of Nun. At the moment of the curse, Canaan’s body became black and the blackness spread out among them.” ...
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  • divorce her husband the prince and become a Taoist nun with the sobriquet Taizhen (太真 "Utmost Truth") living in Taizhen Palace. Five years ...
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  • * Gutschow, Kim. 2004. Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Indian Himalayas. Harvard University Press. *Snellgrove D.L ...
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  • Ağca was caught and restrained by a nun until police arrived. He ... associated with John Paul II. A French nun, confined to her bed by Parkinson ...
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  • Its modern form is derived from a French Catholic nun Marguerite Marie Alacoque, who said she learned the devotion from Jesus in visions. ...
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  • at Vence, not far from the convent where the young nun was stationed. She visited him and told him of the plans the Dominicans had to build a chapel beside ...
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  • In 1981-1982, Zeev Yeivin and Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun dug out from the bedrock area of the presumed site of the Tabernacle. Ceramics and ancient Egyptian ...
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  • scion would be the son of an ex-priest and ex-nun. After the reforms of Patriarch Nikon to the Russian Orthodox Church of 1652, a large number ...
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  • written using outdated models. Of these, Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren ... texts are taken from the psalms, except in Nun danket alle Gott which uses ...
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  • for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). Later, she would receive another Best Actress nomination ...
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  • #039;s ideal, the arhat, represents a monk/nun who has successfully followed ... of the Yuen Chia era (426 C.E.), … the nun Hui-kuo and her companions ...
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  • and took her vows following Lathrop's death as a nun in the Dominican order. She founded a religious order, The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, to ...
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  • married a provincial governor, becoming a Buddhist nun upon his death. She is also known for her rivalry with her contemporary Murasaki Shikibu ...
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  • Elena had to quit painting when she became a nun. Both Anna Maria and Europa gave up art upon marrying, while Lucia, the best painter among Sofonisba ...
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  • * (1951) Widow, Nun and Courtesan: Three Novelettes From the Chinese Translated and Adapted by Lin Yutang. A John Day Book Company ...
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  • total recovery of one sufferer, the nun Rita Klaus, after more than ... to the standard prognosis is Rita Klaus, a nun, who developed MS at age 20 ...
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  • her worldly concerns and becomes a Buddhist nun. She is the second youngest ... Miaoyu (Adamantina) is a young nun from Buddhist cloisters of the ...
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  • *Egyptian: Nun/Naunet *Hindu: Manu *China: Nüwa *Sumerian: Ziusudra *Babylonian: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, Xisuthrus *Greek: Deucalion ...
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  • while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun. Some branches of the family ... were also nuns) she was ready to become a nun herself. She says that most ...
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  • :The nun Zong Chi stepped up and said, “It is like a glorious glimpse of the realm of Akshobhya Buddha . Seen once, it need not be seen again.” ...
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  • Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins or wrongdoings, by being set free from guilt or penalty. Most religions have ...
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  • Pope St. Gregory I or Gregory the Great (c. 540 – March 12, 604) was pope from September 3, 590, until his death. He is also known as Gregory ...
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  • from an unrestricted sexual life (including raping a nun) Alan Levine (2003). to undue political domination over the royal family. ...
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  • Catholic Reccared. His sister, Florentina, was a nun, and is said to have ruled over forty convents and one thousand religious. Isidore's parents ...
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  • in the late 1960s. He married an ex-nun in 1971 and became a teacher of theology. ==Reich Leader and Head of the Party Chancellery== ...
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  • Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow the religious traditions developed by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family A dowry is a gift of money or valuables ...
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  • :Must separate Constance from the nun :Oh! what a tangled web we weave :When first we practice to deceive! :A Palmer too! No wonder why ...
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  • church roles (including a deacon, religious monk or nun) who poses set questions and prompts students (or disciples) toward understanding the answers given. ...
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  • the university city of Dunedin and the Flying Nun Records label. The genre had its heyday during the mid-1980s and produced bands such as the Bats ...
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  • Families that have produced a priest or nun have a high status. Symbols of difference include owning a car or truck, a large house, furniture ...
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  • tomb, two full-length figures of a monk and a nun rest atop the sarcophagus. A Gothic-revival enclosure protects them from sun and possible damage ...
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  • the true story of Maria von Trapp, a Salzburg-based nun who took up with an aristocratic family and fled German occupation. Although the film is not popular ...
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  • The term monastery (from Greek: μοναστήριον (monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks or nuns). ...
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  • Theodore also spoke against the second marriage of Michael II to the nun Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI, although in a very moderate ...
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  • Cinderella (French: Cendrillon, German: Aschenputtel), is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ...
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  • periodically to the faithful. In the 380s, a nun named Egeria who was travelling on pilgrimage described the veneration of the True Cross at ...
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  • :er befiehlt uns spielt auf nun zum Tanz :Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts :wir trinken dich morgens und mittags wir trinken ...
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  • Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in ...
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  • to Paris by playing on his interest in the case of a nun who had refused to give up her vows. Diderot sent letters in her name to the marquis, as if she ...
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  • again share romantic love with a man, became a nun. === Later life === Abélard, now aged forty, sought to bury himself as a monk in the abbey ...
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  • Asceticism describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices ...
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  • Chaplin, and antics such as dressing up as a nun and walking around town. It ... * Viridiana (1961)—A well-meaning young nun tries unsuccessfully ...
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  • set in a convent, this is a story of a nun who sacrifices her life to save the soul of a murderer. Bresson's next project, Les dames du ...
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  • A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine, the troubadours ...
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  • SAINT The Princess in a Mercedes or the bare-foot Nun?] Category:Biography 78961235 ...
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  • * Bridget of York (November 10, 1480–1517), became a nun Edward had numerous mistresses, the best known of whom is Jane Shore (whose name in ...
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  • Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (September 23, 1949 - ) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist. He is widely known for his brand ...
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  • of Thomas Hooker. Of her piety and almost nun-like love of God and belief in His personal love for her, Edwards had known when she was only thirteen ...
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