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A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan
; A Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish...Baernstein's book about the Angelic nuns of the convent of San Paolo Converso in sixteenth- and...nuns sustained with one another inside the convent and with their families and a network of...
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Bid to save convent from being sold to developers
; ...have launched an 11th-hour bid to save a convent in the West End being sold to developers. Aberdeen's Convent of the Sacred Heart in Queen's Lane South...Society of the Sacred Heart have had a convent in the city for more than 100 years, running...
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Old Convent is answer to your prayers; TENNIS, POOL AND 11 ACRES.(Features)
; ...AMES ONCE a religious retreat, the Old Convent has to be one of the most unusual places...for pounds 310,000. Number 1, The Old Convent, a four-bedroomed apartment built over...handling the sale, used to live at the convent. The whole area is a unique place to live...
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Marchers Walk Through Auschwitz to Protest Catholic Convent
; ...protest the continued presence of a Catholic convent just outside the camp's gate and to speak...percent of whom were Jews. "We don't want a convent here; we don't want a synagogue here...march. The long-simmering debate over the convent at Auschwitz has mushroomed into an international...
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Good heavens, former Glenview convent site to host homes
; ...development in Glenview, will be on the site of a former convent. "Converting the convent into residential housing marks a new chapter for...Chicago area's highest-rated school districts." The convent's former owners and residents, Missionary Sisters...
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Uprising in Cancer Alley.(Convent-St. James, Louisiana region beset with petrochemical pollution)(Brief Article)
; Convent, Louisiana Chimney stacks punctuate the 100-mile stretch...environment. Like the rest of Cancer Alley, the town of Convent has its share of industry. According to the EPA's latest...twenty-three million pounds of toxins were released over Convent in 1994. The majority of these releases occurred in ...
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St. Edward's Convent closes after 100 years
; ...Lindsey Wiebe THE stately St. Edward's Convent is closing its doors after nearly 100 years in the community. The West End convent was built in the early 1920s, but...of eight Our Lady of the Missions convents were built across the province at...
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I am a totally different person from the woman who went into the convent; What is it like to live in an enclosed convent, where life is devoted to prayer and you have only minimal contact with the outside world? The BBC found four very different volunteers prepared to live like nuns for six weeks, and later this month their experiences will be shown on The Convent. Here, two of them tell us how their lives were changed.
; ...recruitment consultant to take part in The Convent. She is single and has homes in Nottingham...When a friend sent me the advert for The Convent, I knew immediately that I was that stressed...the same old mess. Taking part in The Convent meant resigning from work - there was...
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Convent reunion rekindles memories
; ...the Conge (holiday) feast served at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in the 1870s. At least...than 5,000 women who once attended the Convent will be at the luncheon at St. Francis...is that the pig was probably grown on Convent Hill as the Convent was self-sustaining...
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8 Belgian nuns sell convent for castle, limo and racehorses
; ...eight nuns, the eldest 93, who sold their convent and fled in a limousine to a castle they...cannot see, hear or walk. The nuns sold the convent in Bruges for $1.4 million to a group...said the bishop of Bruges dismissed the convent's mother superior and the youngest of...
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convent company of religious persons living together XIII (since XVIII often restricted...nunneries); building housing this XVI. ME. covent — OF. covent (varying with convent with latinized sp., which finally prevailed in Eng.), mod. couvent :- L. conventus assembly, company, f. convent- , pp. ...
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convent
convent. 1. Company of men or women living in the discipline of a religious Order and under one Superior. 2. The institution founded for (1). 3. A nunnery , i.e. a convent for women only.
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Port-Royal, Convent of
Port-Royal, Convent of, Jansenist centre. A convent of Cistercian nuns was founded in 1204 at Port-Royal, a...the nuns. For a time the two houses existed with a single conventual organization, but in 1669 they were separated, Port-Royal-de-P...
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convent
convent • abeyant , mayn't • ambient , circumambient • gradient , irradiant, radiant • expedient , ingredient...
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convent
convent. In ecclesiastical usage either the building in which a body of religious live together, or the religious community itself. Historically applied to the domicile of religious of either sex, in English the term is now usually restricted to those of women.
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