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  • He permitted her in his own life-time to found a monastery of nuns, called Oblates, for the reception of such of her own sex as were disposed to embrace a religious life.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • She established two confraternities, whose members were called Oblates of Mary or Sacconi.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Then Francesca, after a moment's thought, replied, "I think that God will provide for us without any one going out of the house;" and calling the Oblates to the refectory, she asked a blessing on the bread, and distributed it in minute portions amongst them.

    The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848

  • I joined an order called the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, who taught my high school, Selesianum High School in Wilmington, Delaware, and they were located up and down the East Coast, and I did my -- I did some practice teaching in Philadelphia, got my college degree at the University of Niagara, all as a seminarian, and then I was sent to Europe to study theology at the University of Frieborg in Switzerland.

    Spin This!: All The Ways We Don�t Tell the Truth 2002

  • Everybody deserves to be rewarded for their work, said Father Seamus Finn of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who plans to attend the meeting.

    Religious groups question Goldman on pay 2011

  • American College soccer team was upset by the previously winless O.M.I. (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) Team by the score of 3-2 on Saturday, April 14th, in Clericus Cup action.

    Sports 2009

  • As he became familiar with his new surroundings - and found rich spiritual fruit in the new rite as celebrated by the Oblates of St Joseph - he saw that in his former unyielding traditionalism he had developed what he calls "an ideological and neurotic consciousness of being a 'traditionalist'".

    On "Gnostic Traditionalism" 2009

  • The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate had submitted a proposal that the board report to shareholders on the firm's risk-management structure and staffing and how it integrates that into its business model.

    Post-Crisis, Goldman Shareholders Press Proxy Proposals Liz Moyer 2011

  • As a child, Irniq lived in Turquetil Hall, the children's residence of the infamous Sir Joseph Bernier School in Chesterfield Inlet, run by Oblates and Grey Nuns.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • The provincial of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary has pulled the plug on the old Mass at St Peter Chanel.

    Leap Year -- Day John 2008

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