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- noun Plural form of
canoness .
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The service has been planned with the help of the canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre from Colchester, some of whom will be taking part.
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The service has been planned with the help of the canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre from Colchester, some of whom will be taking part.
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The ceremony over, Lady Burton went to spend ten days in the convent of the canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre at
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Her relics are enshrined in the great church of Maubeuge, where her monastery is now a college of noble virgins canonesses.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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It has been, if not from its restoration, at least for several centuries, a noble collegiate church for canonesses, who make proof of nobility for two hundred years, but can marry if they resign their p {} ends; except the abbess, who makes solemn religious vows.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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BRIDGITTINES, an order of Augustinian canonesses founded by St Bridget of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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His ring, in which a sapphire is enchased, was given by lord viscount Montaigne to the bishop of Chalcedon, [7] who had long been sheltered from the persecution in the house of that nobleman, [8] and was by him left in the monastery of English canonesses at Paris, which is also possessed of a tooth of St. Cuthbert.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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SHE was daughter of Megendose, count of Guelders, and governed the nunnery of Bellich on the Rhine, near Bonn, (now a church of canonesses,) but died in 1015, abbess of our Lady's in Cologne, both monasteries having been founded by her father.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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It is now a double chapter of canons and canonesses.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Her festival, with an octave, is kept at Bellich, or Vilich, where the nunnery which she instituted, of the order of St. Bennet, is now converted into a church of canonesses.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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