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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 ...
    10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
  • 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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