Search results for "Nun" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...11 KB (1,687 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- became a published writer and later an Anglican nun. In the 1840s the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health forced him ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- In June, 1523, he married a former nun, Ottilie von Gerson. In November, he was interrogated by George Spalatin and Frederick the Wise. Luther ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- of her published works, which reads, "Marie ai nun, si sui de France." (Translated, this means, "My name is Marie, I am from France. ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- 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) ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- a Benedictine may technicaly be a monk, nun or oblate. Most monasteries ... London 1926, translated from the French by a nun of Tyburn Convent) ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- * Leonora d'Este (July 3, 1515 - July 15, 1575). A nun. * Francesco d'Este, Marchese di Massalombarda (November 1, 1516 - February 2, 1578). ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 12:11, 8 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,714 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- * Chorale Prelude "Nun freut euch liebe Christen" (Bach-Busoni) * Ecossaisen (Beethoven) * Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 & Etude Op. 10 No ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Kate Smith, the Beatles, James Brown, the Singing Nun, and The Doors. With the often-imitated, opening line, "tonight we are going to have ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- 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 ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- Zhdanov, publicly labeled her "half harlot, half nun," and had her poems banned from publication. Zhdanov was a close associate of Stalin, who ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- widowed Adelaide to marry his son, Adalbert. The nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim wrote: "Engorged with hatred and envy, Berengar directed his fury ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. Chastity includes abstinence from sexual intimacy for the unmarried ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- 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. ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2022
