Encyclopedia - Abbess: Encyclopedia - Abbess
An Abbess (Latin abbatissa, fem. form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior, or Mother Superior, of an abbey or convent of nuns. The mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adelaide Abbess Of Vilich: Encyclopedia - Adelaide Abbess Of Vilich
Adelaide, Abbess of Villich (Adelheid of Willich) (c. 970 – February 5 O.S., 1015) was a daughter of Megingoz des Brunharingen, Count o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia - Abbey
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catholic Church Hierarchy: Encyclopedia - Catholic Church Hierarchy
In its application to the Catholic Church, the term hierarchy originally referred to the "holy ordering" of the entire People of God. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prince-abbot: Encyclopedia - Prince-abbot
An abbey-principality is an area that is ruled by the head of an abbey. The ruler of an abbey-principality is a prince-abbot or a princes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Whitby Abbey: Encyclopedia - Whitby Abbey
Whitby Abbey is a ruined monastery sited on Whitby's East Cliff. It was founded in 657 AD by the Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Port-royal: Encyclopedia - Port-royal
Port-Royal was a Cistercian convent in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bath Abbey: Encyclopedia - Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey is the last in a series of monastic churches built in Bath and is still in active use. In 675 Osric, King of the Hwicce, grant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bridgettines: Encyclopedia - Bridgettines
The Bridgettine or Briggittine order. A monastic religious order of Augustinian canonesses founded by Saint Birgitta (Saint Bridget) of S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cappadocian Fathers: Encyclopedia - Cappadocian Fathers
The Cappadocians are significant figures in the history of Hellenistic Christian philosophies. They were a 4th-century monastic family, l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ely Cathedral: Encyclopedia Ii - Ely Cathedral - History
Ely Cathedral - Previous buildings. The first Christian building on the site was founded by Etheldreda, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon kin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hsi Lai Temple: Encyclopedia Ii - Hsi Lai Temple - History
In 1976, Master Hsing Yun represented a Buddhist group from Taiwan to participate in America's bicentennial celebration. Many American fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Benedictine Abbeys
Monasticism in the West owes its extension and development to Benedict of Nursia (born A.D. 480). His rule was diffused with miraculous r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - York
St Mary's Abbey, York, of which the ground-plan is annexed, exhibits the usual Benedictine arrangements. The precincts are surrounded by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Cistercian
The next great monastic revival, the Cistercian, arising in the last years of the 11th century, had a wider diffusion, and a longer and m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Austin Canons
The buildings of the Austin canons or Black canons (so called from the colour of their habit) present few distinctive peculiarities. This...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Premonstratensians
The Premonstratensian regular canons, or White canons, had as many as 35 houses in England, of which the most perfect remaining are those...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Clermont
The whole establishment is surrounded hy a wall, furnished at intervals with watch towers (R). The enclosure is divided into two courts, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catholic Church Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Catholic Church Hierarchy - Ecclesiastical Offices In The Hierarchy Of The Catholic Church
Catholic church hierarchy - Patriarchs. Patriarch is the title for the highest-ranking bishop of an autonomous church or federation of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Hulne
Of the convents of the Carmelite or White Friars we have a good example in the Abbey of Hulne, near Alnwick, the first of the order in En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbey - Clermont
The whole establishment is surrounded hy a wall, furnished at intervals with watch towers. The enclosure is divided into two courts, of w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catholic Church Hierarchy: Encyclopedia Ii - Catholic Church Hierarchy - Origin And Use Of The Term Hierarchy
Pseudo-Dionysius is credited as the first to attribute a specific hierarchy to the church. Christians were found in one of three orders: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hsi Lai Temple: Encyclopedia Ii - Hsi Lai Temple - Attraction And Services Offered
Because of the temple's beautiful surroundings and various facilities, Hsi Lai is a popular venue for tourists interested in knowing more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hsi Lai Temple: Encyclopedia Ii - Hsi Lai Temple - Dharma Functions
Regular Dharma functions are held weekly on Sunday morning, where they usually chant various sutras, such as the Diamond Sutra or the Ami...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hsi Lai Temple: Encyclopedia Ii - Hsi Lai Temple - 1996 Presidential Election Controversy
Main Article: Al Gore controversies During the 1996 presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore held a fundraiser at Hsi Lai Temple. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fontevraud Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Fontevraud Abbey - History
The monastery became quite successful, attracting many rich and noble abbesses over the years. The Plantagenets were large benefactors of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - St Hilda's Three Monasteries
We do not know where Hilda began her life as a nun, except that is was on the north bank of the River Wear. Here, with a few companions s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nun: Encyclopedia Ii - Nun - Eastern Orthodox Christian
In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is no distinction between a monastery for men and a monastery for women. In the Greek language both ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. Mechtilde: Encyclopedia Ii - St. Mechtilde - Early Life
When Mechtilde was seven years old, having been taken by her mother on a visit to her elder sister Gertrude, at that time a nun in the mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prince Of The Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Prince Of The Church - Clerics As Territorial Princes
Especially in the Holy Roman Empire, a large number of Prince-bishops, Prince-archbishops and superiors of the regular clergy (mainly Pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galahad: Encyclopedia Ii - Galahad - Galahad's Early Life
Sir Galahad's conception comes about when Lady Elaine magically disguises herself as Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot's true love, and trick...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stendhal: Encyclopedia Ii - Stendhal - Works
Novels: Armance (1827) Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) (variously translated as Scarlet and Black, Red and Black, The Red and the Black) La C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reculver: Encyclopedia Ii - Reculver - The Legend Of The Twin Sisters
Some time in the distant past there were two sisters, the orphaned daughters of Sir Geoffrey St Clare, Frances and Isabella. Frances beca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abbot: Encyclopedia Ii - Abbot - Monastic History
An abbot (from the Hebrew ab, "a father", through the Syriac abba, Latin abbas (genitive form, abbatis), Old English abbad, ; German...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monasticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monasticism - Christian Monasticism
Main article: Christian monasticism Monasticism in Christianity is a family of similar traditions that began to develop early in the hist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rule Of St Benedict: Encyclopedia Ii - Rule Of St Benedict - Outline Of The Benedictine Life
St Benedict's model for the monastic life was the family, with the abbot as father and all the monks as brothers. Priesthood was not init...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Einsiedeln Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Einsiedeln Abbey - History
St. Meinrad, of the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern, was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an island in Lake Constance, und...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fulk Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Fulk Of Jerusalem - Family
In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were: Geoffrey of Anjou Sib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gernrode: Encyclopedia Ii - Gernrode - History
Margrave Gero founded the convent of St. Cyriacus (St. Cyriakus) in 960 (within the grounds of the fortifications built about the same ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibylla Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Sibylla Of Jerusalem - Dynasty
Sibylla was raised by her great-aunt, the abbess Ioveta of Bethany, sister of former Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, who founded the conven...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wycombe Abbey: Encyclopedia Ii - Wycombe Abbey - Early History Of Wycombe Abbey
However, the history of the school building itself predates Dame Frances Dove's acquisition of it. In the 13th century the area, with the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hartlepool: Encyclopedia Ii - Hartlepool - History
Hartlepool was founded as a village in the 7th century AD, springing up around a convent founded in 640 on a headland overlooking a natur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marguerite De Launay Baronne Staal: Encyclopedia Ii - Marguerite De Launay Baronne Staal - Life
She was born in Paris. Her father was a painter named Cordier. He seems to have deserted her mother, who then resumed her maiden name, De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Much Wenlock Priory: Encyclopedia Ii - Much Wenlock Priory - Early History
Merewalh, King of the Magonsaete founded the original Anglo-Saxon monastery here circa 680 and Merewalh's daughter quickly became its abb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hildegard Of Bingen: Encyclopedia Ii - Hildegard Of Bingen - Significance
Hildegard was a powerful woman for the Middle Ages. She communicated with Popes such as Eugenius III, Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melisende Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Melisende Of Jerusalem - Patroness Of The Church And Arts
Melisende enjoyed the support of the church throughout her lifetime; from her appointment as Baldwin II's successor, throughout the confl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Title - Executive Branch Of Government And Other Sub-national Rulers
Title - Currently in Use. Abbess (the masculine equivalent is Abbott) Acolyte Admiral (from which come Grand Admiral, Hereditary Lord ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melisende Of Jerusalem: Encyclopedia Ii - Melisende Of Jerusalem - Death
In 1161 Melisende had what appears to be a stroke. Her memory was severely impaired and she could no longer take part in state affairs. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Sound Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - The Sound Of Music - 1961 London Production
The London production opened at the Palace Theatre on May 18, 1961 and ran for 2385 performances. Jean Bayless played Maria , Roger Dann ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mother Angelica: Encyclopedia Ii - Mother Angelica - Founding Of Our Lady Of The Angels
Keeping the pledge she made prior to her surgery, Sister Angelica began making preparations to establish a new monastary. After seeking a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ng Mui: Encyclopedia Ii - Ng Mui - Ng Mui In The Traditions Of Wing Chun
According to the Wing Chun master Yip Man, Ng Mui was Abbess at the Henan Shaolin Monastery and managed to survive its destruction by Qin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Monarchs Deposed In The 19th Century: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Monarchs Deposed In The 19th Century - G
List of monarchs deposed in the 19th century - Gandersheim. Auguste Dorothea Herzogin von Braunschweig Princess-Abbesse of Gandersheim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Monarchs Deposed In The 19th Century: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Monarchs Deposed In The 19th Century - K
List of monarchs deposed in the 19th century - Kaisersheim. Franz Xaver Müller prince-abbot of Kaiserheim 1783-1803, deposed through ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Abbess: Meaning Of Dreams About Abbess
  Abbess For a young woman to dream that she sees an abbess, denotes that she will be compelled to perform distasteful tasks, a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vaisakha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vaisakha
Vaisakha (Sanskrit) "A celebrated female ascetic, born at Sravasti, and called sudatta, 'virtuous donor.' She was the mother-abbe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vaisakha: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Vaisakha
Vaisakha (Sanskrit). A celebrated female ascetic, born at Sravasti, and called Sudatta, "virtuous donor". She was the mother...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nuns: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Nuns
Nuns. There were nuns in ancient Egypt as well as in Peru and old Pagan Rome. They were the "virgin brides" of their respect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland
Saint Brigid of Ireland (Bridget, Bridgit, Brigit, Bride) (451- 525) was born at Faughart near Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. According ...   » Read the article

Article - Dream Interpretation Index: Dream Interpretation Index Including Links To 10.000 Dream Interpretations
Dream Dictionary Index with links to 10.000 dream interpretations from many different sources. Please note that all words in grey are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Title - Titles For Heads Of State
Title - Current. Titles actually in use by Heads of State in the World today. Indovuzaki (Translates as Great She Elephant) Chairm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - Sources Of Information
Image:Wood-carving-of-saint-hilda.jpg Our only source of information about Hilda is The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Brigid Of Ireland - Extended Biography
St. Brigid was born in 451 or 452 of princely ancestors at Faughart, near Dundalk, County Louth; d. 1 February, 525, at Kildare. Refusing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - Sources Of Information
Our only source of information about Hilda is The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People, written by the Venerable Bede ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Brigid Of Ireland - Extended Biography
Born in 451 or 452 of princely ancestors at Faughart, near Dundalk, County Louth; d. 1 February, 525, at Kildare. Refusing many good offe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bertha: Encyclopedia Ii - Bertha - Non-human Berthas
The name "Bertha" has also been applied to many non-human things, among which are: Bertha - Big Bertha WWI. Big Bertha is the nickname ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Brigid Of Ireland - Life Stories
Because of the legendary quality of the earliest accounts of Saint Brigid, there is debate among many scholars and even faithful Christia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Title - Honorary Titles Granted By Heads Of State
Title - Current. Raja (Still officially retained by members of India's princely families, although without the former prerogatives. Fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Title - Legislative Titles
Title - In Current Use. Alderman Councillor Delegate Member of Parliament (from which come Member of the European Parliament, Member o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Title - Judicial Titles
Title - In Current Use. Advocate Bailiff Barrister Judge and Admiralty Judge Justice (from which come Chief Justice and Justice of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Brigid Of Ireland - Symbology And Legends
Similar to the association between St. Patrick and the shamrock, a tiny cross made of rushes was linked with St. Brigid. Legend has it sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Brigid Of Ireland - Life Stories
Because of the legendary quality of the earliest accounts of Saint Brigid, there is debate among many scholars and even faithful Christia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - Monastic Life At Whitby
On the east cliff at Whitby stands the impressive remains of a 12th century Benedictine abbey. This is not, of course, the building which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - St Hilda's Baptism
In 627 King Edwin was baptised on Easter Day, 12th April, along with his court, which included Hilda, in a small wooden church hastily co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigid Of Ireland: Encyclopedia Ii - Brigid Of Ireland - Symbology And Legends
Similar to the association between St. Patrick and the shamrock, a tiny cross made of rushes was linked with St. Brigid. Legend has it sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - The Synod Of Whitby
King Oswiu chose Hilda's monastery as the venue for the Synod of Whitby, the first synod of the Church in his kingdom. He invited churchm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bertha: Encyclopedia Ii - Bertha - People Named Bertha
Bertha - Bertha Queen of Kent. Bertha, Queen of Kent -- Frankish princess, daughter of Charibert, married the pagan King Ethelbert of K...   » Read the article

Article - Meaning Of A Dream: Meaning Of Dreams From; Abandon To Accounts
Dream Interpretation including the meaning of dreams about: Abandon, Abandonment, Abandoned, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot , Abdomen, Abho...   » Read the article

Article - Dream Interpretation: Dream Interpretation Of Dreams From;
Dream Interpretation including dreams about: Abandon, Abandonment, Abandoned, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot , Abdomen, Abhor, Abject , Abo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary: Dream Dictionary On Dreams; Abandon To Accounts
A Dream Dictionary including dreams about:   Abandon, Abandonment, Abandoned, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot , Abdomen, Abhor, Abject , Abode...   » Read the article

Article - Dreams Sitemap I - A
This is a sitemap for Dream Dictionary - A . Click on a link and you will find multiple dream interpretations and the meaning behind th...   » Read the article