Novitiate, alt. Noviciate, is the period that a novice or prospective member of a religious order who has not yet been admitted to vows has to undergo training in order to be found eligible or qualified for admission. A Novitiate is also housing exclusively devoted for the needs of novices. See also. novice ...

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novitiate: Same as novice. A newcomer to a monastic or religious community, on probation, before taking final vows.

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Alexandre de Rhodes (March 15, 1591 - November 5, 1660) was a French Jesuit missionary. Born in Avignon, France. He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Rome on April 24, 1612 to dedicate his life to missionary work. During his studies of Classical Chinese and the vernacular Vietnamese language, he proposed Quốc Ngữ, an alphabet based on the Roman character set, which is used today to write the Vietnamese language. In 1624 he was sent to the East Indies starting in Cochin China. In 1627 he travelled to To ...

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Antonio Vieira (February 6, 1608 - 1697), Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time," was born in Lisbon. Accompanying his parents to Brazil in 1615 he received his education at the Jesuit college at Bahia. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1625, and two years later pronounced his first vows. At the age of eighteen he was teaching rhetoric, and a little later dogmatic theology, at the college of Olinda, ...

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The history of the Irmandade da Boa Morte ("Sisterhood of the Good Death"), a religious confraternity devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin, is part of the history of mass importation of blacks from the African coast to the cane-growing catchment area around the port of Salvador, Bahia, known as the Recôncavo Baiano. Iberian adventurers built several towns in this area, one of them being Cachoeira, which was the second most important economic center in Bahia for three centuries. Order of ...

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In time, the Sisterhood has lessened its connection to the Catholic Church, and has become a landmark of Candomblé, the main African-based religion of Brazil. Candomblé is a spiritist religion, that worships a complex pantheon of deities or guardian spirits, the Orixás. At Candomblé rituals, the Orixás are invoked and "incorporate" in the officiating priests. Due to their secret nature, the inner rites of the Sisterhood, linked to the worship of the Orixás, have still not been the object of an ethnographic interpretation. ...

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Like all confraternities of Bahia, the Boa Morte has an internal hierarchy that administers the everyday devotions of its members. The leadership is made up of four sisters, responsible for organizing the public festival in August. They are replaced each year. At the top, in the most prominent position of the Irmandade da Boa Morte, is the Perpetual Judge, who is the eldest member. There follow the posts of Attorney General, Provider, Treasurer and Scribe; the first is at the head of religious and profane activities.< ...

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In the Roman Catholic Church the process of becoming a monk is marked by several distinct stages, which may vary depending on the particular tradition, order, or monastery. A person requesting admission is known as a postulant. After a period of examination, during which they may live in the monastery without actually taking vows, they may be admitted as a novice. The novitiate may last for a number of years and include instruction in prayer and other subjects. After the novitiate, a monastic may pass through a series of temporary vows of increasing length (typically three to five years). Catholic monks call each other B ...

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Ideally these Exercises were designed to take place in the setting of a secluded retreat, during which those undergoing the exercises would be focused on nothing other than the Exercises. They were also designed to be carried out while under the direction of a spiritual director. The primary aim of their authorship appears to have been for use as a part of the Catholic religious order of Jesuits' novitiate program. As such they are a required component of the Jesuit novitiate training program, that usually takes place during the first ...

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On February 1963, a thirty-two-day novitiate for Buddhist monks and nuns was held in Taipei. Monks and nuns came from all over Taiwan to register. All were accepted except a young female devotee from Hualien, a county in eastern Taiwan. Master Yin Shun recalled the day he first met Master Cheng Yen: "Hui Yin, a student of mine, brought her to the Hui Jih Lecture Hall, where I lived, to purchase The Complete Teachings of Master Tai Xu. Hui Yin told me that the woman had been rejected from the novitiate because she had shaved ...

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Nicolas Eymeric - Education and early tenure as Inquisitor General. Nicolas Eymeric was born in Gerona c. 1320. He entered the local monastery of the Dominican Order on 4 August, 1334. Here, during his novitiate he was instructed in theology by the friar Dalamau Moner. In order to complete his studies, he went to Toulouse, and then to Paris, where he obtained his doctorate in 1352. He then returned to the monastery in Gerona where he re ...

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He was born Guido di Pietro, at Vicchio, in the Tuscan province of Mugello, near Florence towards the end of the 14th century, of unknown but seemingly well-to-do parentage, and was baptized Guido or Guidolino (friars used to change their name when entering the orders). Still a young boy he asked for admittance at the convent of San Domenico in Fiesole, where Dominican friars were known for their rigid rules (and were called "the Observers"). He completed his novitiate in Cortona in 1408 and became a real Dominican monk in Fiesole abo ...

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Fra Angelico, Fra Angelico - Biography, Fra Angelico - Early works, Fra Angelico - Rome, Fra Angelico - Cause for canonization

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Among his early works are the Annunciation of Cortona, the Coronation of the Virgin in the convent of Fiesole, and the Deposition of Christ executed for the Church of the Holy Trinity in Florence, paintings that Vasari indicated as "painted by a saint or an angel". His earliest extant performances, in considerable number, are at Cortona, to which he was sent during his novitiate, and here apparently he spent all the opening years of his monastic life. His first works executed in fresco were probably those, now destroyed, ...

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Towards the end of his rhetoric course, he felt a distinct call to the Society of Jesus. His family was decidedly opposed to this, and on 24 September, 1616, he was received into the novitiate at Mechlin. After two years passed in Mechlin he made his simple vows, and was sent to Antwerp to begin the study of philosophy. Remaining there only a few weeks, he set out for Rome, where he was to continue the same study. After the journeying three hundred leagues on foot, carrying a wallet on his back, he arrived at the Roman College, he studied fo ...

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John Berchmans, John Berchmans - Early Life, John Berchmans - Call To the Society of Jesus, John Berchmans - Path to Sainthood

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Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936. After an education in the Roman Catholic Church, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus and was ordained to the Jesuit priesthood on December 13, 1969. He was attending the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel, a seminary in San Miguel. Eventually, Bergoglio attained the position of novice master there and became professor of theology. Impressed with his leadership skills, the Society of Jesus promoted Bergoglio and he served as provincial for ...

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Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio - Jesuit, Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio - Episcopacy, Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio - Cardinal

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Aristide was born in Port-Salut, Haiti. He was educated at schools in Port-au-Prince and at the College Notre Dame, graduating in 1974. He then took a course of novitiate studies in La Vega before returning to Haiti to study philosophy at the Grand Seminaire Notre Dame and psychology at the State University of Haiti. After completing his post-graduate studies in 1979, he travelled in Europe, studying in It ...

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Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Education and church career, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - First presidency and coup, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Second presidency and rebellion, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - Departure from Haiti

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She was born in South Africa and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. She became a nun in 1946 in the order of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She was sent to England to begin her novitiate and studied at St Anne's College at Oxford. Outside of her academic studies, she lived in a convent that maintained a strict code of silence. After completing a teaching diploma in 1954, she returned to South Africa to teach at the University of the Witwatersrand. Health problems in 1970 forced her to abandon teaching and return to England to live in ...

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Wendy Beckett, Wendy Beckett - Biography, Wendy Beckett - Documentaries, Wendy Beckett - Notoriety, Wendy Beckett - Miscellaneous

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Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids in 1886, Aquinas has a Catholic heritage. Aquinas began as a novitiate normal school, for young women who had yet to take their vows to the Dominican religious order. In 1922, the Dominican Sisters merged their newly created college for lay women with the normal school. This new college received a charter from the state of Michigan to grant degrees in 1923. In 1931, it became the first Catholic college in the US to go co-ed, and was reorganized as Catholic Junior College. The college began to operate as a four-year institution in 1941, w ...

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He was brought up in a Catholic family and educated at Douai. Thence he moved to Paris, where he was placed under a Jesuit father, Thomas Darbyshire. In 1580 he joined the Society of Jesus after a two-year novitiate passed mostly at Tournai. In spite of his youth, he was made prefect of studies in the English college of the Jesuits at Rome and was ordained priest in 1584. It was in that year that an act was passed forbidding any English-born subject of Queen Elizabeth, who had entered into priests' orders in the Roman Catholic Church ...

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Robert Southwell, Robert Southwell - Early Life in England, Robert Southwell - Arrest and Imprisonment, Robert Southwell - Execution, Robert Southwell - Legacy

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