The whole establishment is surrounded hy a wall, furnished at intervals with watch towers. The enclosure is divided into two courts, of which the eastern court, surrounded by a cloister, from which the cottages of the monks open, is musch the larger. The two courts are divided by the main buildings of the monastery, including the church, the sanctuary, divided from the monks' choir, by a screen with two altars, the smaller cloister to the south surrounded by the chapter-house, the refectory and the chapel of Pontgibaud. The kitchen with its offices lies behind the refectory, accessible from the outer co ...

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Pseudo-Dionysius is credited as the first to attribute a specific hierarchy to the church. Christians were found in one of three orders: The Laity, The Religious, The Clergy. None of these orders was to be considered holier than the other; holiness was to be obtained within the order you found yourself in. Though lost for several centuries due to the growing association of hierarchy with lines of authority, this idea has been recaptured by Vatican II. Over time, the term became associated more specificly with those members of the chur ...

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Because of the temple's beautiful surroundings and various facilities, Hsi Lai is a popular venue for tourists interested in knowing more about Chinese culture and Buddhism. Over the years since its foundation, Hsi Lai has been a favorable site for school field trips, business trips, organization meets, and a center for interreligious dialogue. The temple facilities have been utilized for over te ...

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Regular Dharma functions are held weekly on Sunday morning, where they usually chant various sutras, such as the Diamond Sutra or the Amitabha Sutra, and meditation and Buddhism classes in both English and Chinese, are held on some days of the week. Monks who can speak a variety of languages besides Mandarin, primarily English and Cantonese, are available to perform weddings or funerals. Many services Hsi Lai Temple holds annually all revolve around filial piety, the Buddhist and Taoist philosophy of love and respect for one's parents ...

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Main Article: Al Gore controversies During the 1996 presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore held a fundraiser at Hsi Lai Temple. The temple fundraising luncheon attended by Gore was implicated in a campaign donation laundering scheme. In that scheme, donations nominally from Master Hsing Yun and two Buddhist nuns, Venerables Man Ho and Yi Chi, in lawful amounts had actually been donated by wealthy monastics and devotees. Critics noted that the nuns, who each supposedly gave $1000 to the Clinton-Gore campaign ...

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The monastery became quite successful, attracting many rich and noble abbesses over the years. The Plantagenets were large benefactors of the Abbey and King Henry II's sister Mathilde was Abbess at Fontevraud. During the French Revolution, the order was dissolved. The Abbey later became a prison ,from 1804 to 1963. In 1963, it was given to the French Ministry of Culture. ...

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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 she learned the traditions of Celtic monasticism which Aidan brought from Iona. After a year Aidan appointed Hilda second Abbess of Hartlepool. No trace remains of this abbey but the monastic cemetery has been found near the present St Hilda's Church. In 657 Hilda became the founding abbess of a new monastery at Whitby (then ...

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In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is no distinction between a monastery for men and a monastery for women. In the Greek language both domiciles are called monasteries and the ascetics who live there are Monastics. In English, however, it is acceptable to use the terms "nun", "convent", and "abbess" simply for clarity and convenience. Orthodox monastics do not have "orders" as in the Roman Catholic Church. Orthodox monks and nuns lead identical spiritual lives. There may be slight differences in the way a monastery functions internally but ...

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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 monastery of Rodardsdorf, she became so enamoured of the cloister that her pious parents yielded to her requests and, acknowledging the workings of grace, allowed her to enter the alumnate. Here, being highly gifted in mind as well as in body, she made remarkable progress in virtue and learning. Ten years later (1258) she followed her sister, who, now abbess, had transferred the monastery to an estate ...

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Especially in the Holy Roman Empire, a large number of Prince-bishops, Prince-archbishops and superiors of the regular clergy (mainly Prince-abbots, but also -abbesses, Prince-Provosts and Grand masters) obtained for their seats, concurrent with the ecclesiastical office, one or more secular feudal estates of various status and importance (from tiny mere lordships to fairly great principalities such as duchies), that would otherwise be hereditary and often had been; in other cases territories were carved out especially by a higher authority, ...

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Sir Galahad's conception comes about when Lady Elaine magically disguises herself as Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot's true love, and tricks him into bed. Ashamed of what had happened, Sir Lancelot abandons the child and his mother to go off on foreign adventures. Galahad is placed in the care of his great aunt, the abbess at a nunnery, and is raised there. Galahad was Lancelot's original name, but it had been changed when he was a child. The son was prophecied to surpass ...

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Novels: Armance (1827) Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) (variously translated as Scarlet and Black, Red and Black, The Red and the Black) La Chartreuse de Parme (1839) (The Charterhouse of Parma) Lucien Leuwen (1835-) (unfinished, published 1894) Lamiel (1840-) (unfinished, published 1889) The Life of Henry Brulard (1835-1836) (published 1890) Novellas: L'Abbesse de Castro (1832) The Duchess of Palliano Vittoria Accoramboni Vanina VaniniSee also:

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Some time in the distant past there were two sisters, the orphaned daughters of Sir Geoffrey St Clare, Frances and Isabella. Frances became abbess of the Benedictine priory of Davinton near Faversham, whilst Isabella, as the ward of John Abbot of Canterbury was betrothed to Henry de Belville, whom fought for Richard III, and fatally injured was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field. Isabella then like her sister ...

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An abbot (from the Hebrew ab, "a father", through the Syriac abba, Latin abbas (genitive form, abbatis), Old English abbad, ; German Abt; French abbé) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumenos or archimandrite. The English version for a female monastic head is abbess. In Egypt, the first home of monasticism, the jurisdiction of the abbot, or archimandrite, was but loosely defined. Sometimes he ruled over o ...

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Main article: Christian monasticism Monasticism in Christianity is a family of similar traditions that began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modelled upon Scriptural examples and ideals, but not mandated as an institution by the Scriptures. While most people think of Christian or Catholic monks or nuns as "something to do with living in a monastery", from the Church's point of view the definition of a monk/nun is one who lives under a rule and an abbot/abbess, the focus of the particulars of the ...

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Monasticism, Monasticism - Buddhist monasticism, Monasticism - Christian monasticism, Monasticism - Hindu monasticism, Monasticism - Islamic monasticism, Monasticism - Jain monasticism, Monasticism - Monasticism in other religions, Monasticism - External link

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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 initially an important part of Benedictine monasticism – monks used the services of their local priest. Because of this, almost all the Rule is applicable to communities of women under the authority of an abbess. St Benedict's Rule organises the monastic day into regular periods of communal and private prayer, sleep, spiritual reading, and manual labour – ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus, "that ...

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St. Meinrad, of the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern, was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an island in Lake Constance, under his kinsmen Abbots Hatto and Erlebald, where he became a monk and was ordained. After some years at Reichenau, and the dependent priory of Bollingen, on Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of Mt. Etzel, taking with him a wonder-working statue of Our Lady which he had been given by the Abbess Hildegarde of Zurich. He died in 861 at the hands of robbers w ...

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In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were: Geoffrey of Anjou Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault. Elias II of Maine (died 1151) His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem Baldwin III of Jeru ...

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Margrave Gero founded the convent of St. Cyriacus (St. Cyriakus) in 960 (within the grounds of the fortifications built about the same time). Gero also founded the collegiate church of St. Cyriacus for the convent, which the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, the Great took under his special protection in 961. Gero brought back relics of St. Cyriacus for the church from his second trip to Rome in 963. The convent was disbanded in 1570, when the last abbess married. The collegiate church of St. Cyriacus still contains the grave of Gero, and is one of the oldest and best preserved examples of ottonian and romanesque architecture in Germany. The ch ...

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Sibylla was raised by her great-aunt, the abbess Ioveta of Bethany, sister of former Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, who founded the convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany for her sister in 1138, and died there in 1163. In the convent Sibylla was taught scripture and other church traditions. Though not raised by her mother, Sibylla would later become closer with Agnes and inherit her political supporters. Once her brother became king as Baldwin IV, she was his heir and her choice of husband was of paramount concern in the kingdom. Raymond II ...

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However, the history of the school building itself predates Dame Frances Dove's acquisition of it. In the 13th century the area, with the parish church, was part of the holding of the Abbess of Godstowe, (Ironically the priory at Godstowe, 600 years later, was too refounded as a school by Dame Frances Dove, and today is a 'feeder' preparatory school for Wycombe Abbey). On the site of the present Wycombe Abbey was a large manor house known as 'Loakes House' which until 1700 was the seat of the Archdale family, when Thomas Archdale sold ...

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