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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

leaders of the Revolt, in his satiric "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of The Canterbury Tales. Froissart's Chronicles devotes ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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? ...

Bodhidharma gave transmission to a nun named Dharani (although Bodhidharma ... Zanggao) not only gave transmission to the nun Miao-tao, but he also designated ...

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 ...

Two of the tales, The Knight's Tale and The Second Nun's ... Again, however, tales such as the Nun's Priest's Tale ...

became an idolatrous priest, a suspended nun was inserted to turn Mosheh ... because they resemble the Hebrew letter nun ( נ ) written upside down ...

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 ...

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 ...

30, 1897 || 1997 || French || Discalced Carmelites (Nun) |- |} *Also venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church. ===Other parts of the Roman Catholic ...

#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 ...

Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, 1195), was a twelfth century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...

monks, Daofu, Daoyu, and Huike, and the nun Zongchi. Bodhidharma asked ... said, "You have attained my skin." Nun Zongchi said, "My view ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*The Singing Nun (1966) *What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) *Dear Dead Delilah (1972) *Charlotte's Web (1973) * Frankenstein: The ...

The Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit) or Tipiṭaka (Pāli) meaning: "three baskets"), is the formal term for the earliest surviving canon of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She returned to MGM for a role in The Singing Nun (1966), starring ... | The|Singing Nun|dab=film | Mother Prioress | |- | 1967 ...

*נ (Nun) *ג (Gimel) *ה (Hey) *ש (Shin) These letters are an acronym ... *Nun - nisht - "not" - nothing happens and the next player spins ...

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 ...

* 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'. ...

“Botamochi-dera,” houses Sazikini (nun) and Saemonnojou Sukenobu ... *Tokeiji Temple – Founded in 1285 by a nun who rescued many wives ...

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 ...

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 ...

became a published writer and later an Anglican nun. In the 1840s the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health forced him ...

In June, 1523, he married a former nun, Ottilie von Gerson. In November, he was interrogated by George Spalatin and Frederick the Wise. Luther ...

of her published works, which reads, "Marie ai nun, si sui de France." (Translated, this means, "My name is Marie, I am from France. ...

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) ...

a Benedictine may technicaly be a monk, nun or oblate. Most monasteries ... London 1926, translated from the French by a nun of Tyburn Convent) ...

* Leonora d'Este (July 3, 1515 - July 15, 1575). A nun. * Francesco d'Este, Marchese di Massalombarda (November 1, 1516 - February 2, 1578). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Chorale Prelude "Nun freut euch liebe Christen" (Bach-Busoni) * Ecossaisen (Beethoven) * Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 & Etude Op. 10 No ...

Kate Smith, the Beatles, James Brown, the Singing Nun, and The Doors. With the often-imitated, opening line, "tonight we are going to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zhdanov, publicly labeled her "half harlot, half nun," and had her poems banned from publication. Zhdanov was a close associate of Stalin, who ...

widowed Adelaide to marry his son, Adalbert. The nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim wrote: "Engorged with hatred and envy, Berengar directed his fury ...

Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. Chastity includes abstinence from sexual intimacy for the unmarried ...

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. ...

into a four-fold order, namely monk (Sadhu), nun (Sadhvi), layman (Shravak), and laywoman (Shravika). This order is known as Chaturvidh Jain Sangh. ...

bishop of the Greek island of Zakinthos, a Polish nun from Lithuania. and a French Protestant pastor. * Garden of the Righteous: The Garden of ...

:Thy established-offering is thine, O Niw (Nun) together with Nn.t ... notes that the explicit parallel between Nun/Naunet and Amun/Amunet (the ...

first Academic Dean, Therese Stewart, a former nun, Therese M. Stewart, My Life of Faith (Lulu Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1716143830). was female, ...

The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council was a meeting of Christian leaders in the Roman Empire which established ...

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 ...

work. Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, a Catholic nun, were married in 1973, whereupon both were excommunicated. Encyclopedia Britannica Online ...

[[Image:NunofLebanon.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Maronite nun from Mount Lebanon, painting from 1779.]] However, this Roman affiliation was to cost ...

type, with financial support from the Buddhist nun Myodeok, who is believed to have turned to Buddhism after becoming disenchanted with her life in ...

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 ...

followed by Moses mi-Trani (1590), Joshua ben Nun (1592), Naphtali Ashkenazi (1600), Baruch Barzillai (1650), and Meïr Barzillai (1680). ...

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.” ...

divorce her husband the prince and become a Taoist nun with the sobriquet Taizhen (太真 "Utmost Truth") living in Taizhen Palace. Five years ...

* Gutschow, Kim. 2004. Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Indian Himalayas. Harvard University Press. *Snellgrove D.L ...

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 ...

Its modern form is derived from a French Catholic nun Marguerite Marie Alacoque, who said she learned the devotion from Jesus in visions. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

#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 ...

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 ...

married a provincial governor, becoming a Buddhist nun upon his death. She is also known for her rivalry with her contemporary Murasaki Shikibu ...

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 ...

* (1951) Widow, Nun and Courtesan: Three Novelettes From the Chinese Translated and Adapted by Lin Yutang. A John Day Book Company ...

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 ...

her worldly concerns and becomes a Buddhist nun. She is the second youngest ... Miaoyu (Adamantina) is a young nun from Buddhist cloisters of the ...

*Egyptian: Nun/Naunet *Hindu: Manu *China: Nüwa *Sumerian: Ziusudra *Babylonian: Atra-Hasis, Utnapishtim, Xisuthrus *Greek: Deucalion ...

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 ...

: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.” ...

Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins or wrongdoings, by being set free from guilt or penalty. Most religions have ...

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 ...

from an unrestricted sexual life (including raping a nun) Alan Levine (2003). to undue political domination over the royal family. ...

Catholic Reccared. His sister, Florentina, was a nun, and is said to have ruled over forty convents and one thousand religious. Isidore's parents ...

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== ...

Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow the religious traditions developed by ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family A dowry is a gift of money or valuables ...

: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 ...

church roles (including a deacon, religious monk or nun) who poses set questions and prompts students (or disciples) toward understanding the answers given. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term monastery (from Greek: μοναστήριον (monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks or nuns). ...

Theodore also spoke against the second marriage of Michael II to the nun Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI, although in a very moderate ...

Cinderella (French: Cendrillon, German: Aschenputtel), is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ...

periodically to the faithful. In the 380s, a nun named Egeria who was travelling on pilgrimage described the veneration of the True Cross at ...

:er befiehlt uns spielt auf nun zum Tanz :Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts :wir trinken dich morgens und mittags wir trinken ...

Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asceticism describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices ...

Chaplin, and antics such as dressing up as a nun and walking around town. It ... * Viridiana (1961)—A well-meaning young nun tries unsuccessfully ...

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 ...

A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine, the troubadours ...

SAINT The Princess in a Mercedes or the bare-foot Nun?] Category:Biography 78961235 ...

* 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 ...

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (September 23, 1949 - ) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist. He is widely known for his brand ...

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 ...

way, the Buddhist figure is more the celibate monk or nun. The primary interest in Buddhism is not the family values or the elaboration of social institutions ...

By his first wife Theodora of Wallachia (nun Teofana), a daughter of Basarab of Wallachia, Ivan Alexander had several children, including Ivan ...

Virginie Ghesquière, Marie-Jeanne Schelling and a nun, Sister Anne Biget. (The first recorded women's award is 1851, under Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.) ...

of that year, the renegade monk Faqing married a nun and formed a sect in the Northern Wei province of Jizhou (in the southern part of today’s Hebei ...

Fassbinder's camera tracks the nun (played by his mother) who tells Elvira's story; she moves with a kind of military precision through ...

The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit, over which a black scapular ...

for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offense of disturbing the King's peace was the first conviction ...

Marie Goupil (born 1756), a 37-year-old former nun who had left convent life at the Sisters of Providence convent at rue Saint-Honoré. They married ...

[[Image:Kargil's Kun and Nun mountain.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mountains Kun and Nun in the distance. In Kargil district]] Before the Partition ...

reported to have considered becoming a Buddhist nun but eventually chose not to, although she studied Buddhist Pali and Prakrit texts as part of her master ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning ...

|Arabella FitzJames||1674||7 November 1704||Became a nun; no issue. |- |colspan=4|By Catherine Sedley |- |Catherine Darnley||c. 1681||13 March ...

The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden" [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rosary "Rosary." Online Etymology ...

accused of conspiring with Elizabeth Barton, a nun who had prophesied against the king's divorce, but More was able to produce a letter in which ...

the 2006 film The Painted Veil where she played a nun, Manohla Dargis, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/movies/20veil.html A Plague Infects ...

1973). The ninth-century mystic Nubian Dhu al-Nun al-Misri clearly expressed what was to become the backbone of Sufi philosophy by saying, “Let ...

to satirize the experience of a chaste nun, but to embody in marble a complex truth about religious experience— that it is an experience that ...

* Barbara, who became a Benedictine nun * Katharina, who married businessman and city councilor Barthel Gertner In 1491, Copernicus enrolled at ...

of the Byzantine fleet of Sicily forced a nun to marry him. Emperor Michael II caught wind of the matter and ordered that general Constantine ...

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor ...

In the same year Jacqueline moved to become a nun at Port-Royal, despite her brother's opposition. When the time came for her to make her ultimate ...

The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading ...

death, his daughter Princess Mitsuko became a nun, and established another temple there, the Ryinku-ji, in what later became the Middle Garden. ...

(Vinaya) to follow. His wife Yasodhara also became a nun, with both Maha Pajapati and Yasodhara becoming arahants. === Devadatta === ...

AD. [Turkish: "Hun Konfederasyonu'nun Blnmesi ve Yikilmasi"], being a paper published in The Turks [Yeni TrkiyeMedya Hismetleri ...

appeared to Gelongma Palmo, an Indian nun who had contracted leprosy and was on the verge of death. Chenrezig taught her the method of Nyung ...

hymns, such as Wachet auf! Ruft uns die Stimme and Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, as inspiration for the music. On holy days, such as Christmas ...

Grazia (who was later to become a Bridgettine nun). His parents had two other children who died in infancy. When he was baptized, he was given the ...

Eleanor then returned to Fontevrault, where she took the veil as a nun. By the time of her death she had outlived all of her children except ...

the Gods were known as Anunnaki ((d)a-nun-na-ke4-ne = "offspring of the lord"). An's closest cohorts were Enki in the south at ...

words are of native Bengali descent. For example, nun (salt) in the west corresponds to lôbon in the east. ==Spoken and Literary varieties== ...

did not have to become a priest, a monk, or a nun to get closer to God. God is to be glorified in work activities and in family life. Waking up early ...

Therefore, she wrote Victoria (1833), The Nun (1833) and The Monk of Cimies (1834) in order to illustrate some of the dangers of Catholicism ...

such as "Christ ist erstanden" and "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist" adapted original Gregorian melodies to translated texts. Secular ...

east, reaching a climax in the twin summits of Nun-Kun (7000 m or 23,000 ft). The Suru and Zangskar valleys form a great trough enclosed by ...

can be traced to Saint Marie Alacoque, a Visitation nun, whose spiritual director was Saint Claude de la Colombière). The Jesuits particularly promoted ...

na-go" in the ancient language. There is also Nun'Yunu'Wi, an evil spirit monster who preys on humans, and Raven Mocker, the evil spirit ...

figures, such as her The History of a Nun. However, her most famous novel was Oroonoko in 1688. This was a biography of an entirely fictional ...

*Adel Ich muss nun gehen, 4 voices, August 1870 *Das "Fragment an sich", piano, October 1871 *Kirchengeschichtliches Responsorium, chorus ...

In August 2006, extracts from the 60-year-old diary of a nun of the Convent of Santi Quattro Coronati Pina Baglioni, 30 Days - The Holy Father ...

the Zanskar range, Karakoram range, the Nun Kun range and the Shivalik range. The main Kashmir valley is 62 miles (100km) wide. The Himalayas ...

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( 'luːtvɪç 'joːzɛf 'joːhan 'vɪtgənʃtaɪn ) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was ...

to arrange marriages for the 26 year old former nun, Luther, at age 42, married her in 1525. Luther declared, "I would not exchange Katie for ...

The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. ...

#039;s ideal, the arhat, represents a monk/nun who has successfully followed the historical Buddha's teachings, which allow them to break ...

Angel. She declared her intention to become a nun, but did not always follow convent rules; she was accused of sacrilege when she arranged a Christian ...