ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONVENT
From Old French covent, from Latin conventus meeting, from convenīre to come together.
10 QUOTES WITH «CONVENT»
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convent.
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.
I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONVENT»
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convent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Nuns: A History of
Convent Life 1450-1700
The book looks not only at the individual stories of outstanding historical figures such as Teresa of Avila but also at the wider picture of convent life - what it symbolized to contemporaries, how it reflected and related to the world ...
2
Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and ...
A pioneering study of all-female convent theatre in early modern Italy.
3
The Central
Convent of Hospitallers and Templars: History, ...
At the heart of each of these communities, and in many ways a mirror of their growth and adaptability, was a central convent led by several high officials and headquartered first in Jerusalem (to 1187), then in Acre (1191-1291), and then on ...
4
A
Convent Tale: A Century of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan
In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period.
P. Renee Baernstein, 2013
5
Nuns' Chronicles and
Convent Culture in Renaissance and ...
A well-illustrated and innovative analysis of convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy.
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Divas in the
Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in ...
Craig A. Monson retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women.
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Rebellious Nuns : The Troubled History of a Mexican
Convent, ...
In this way she makes it possible for us to empathize with all of them and to appreciate the complicated dynamics of having committed your life not only to God but to your community.
Berkeley Margaret Chowning Professor of History University of California, 2005
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Voices from an Early American
Convent: Marie Madeleine ...
In addition to boarding students, day students, and large catechism classes for
enslaved people, the temporary convent compound also served as the
headquarters for an association of laywomen, known as a confraternity or
congregation, ...
9
Florentine Drama for
Convent and Festival: Seven Sacred Plays
Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.
Antonia Pulci, James Wyatt Cook, Barbara Collier Cook, 2007
10
Life and Death in a Venetian
Convent: The Chronicle and ...
These works by Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni offer an intimate portrait of the women who inhabited the Venetian convent of Corpus Domini, where they shared a religious life bounded physically by the convent wall and organized temporally by ...
Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONVENT»
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convent is used in the context of the following news items.
Century-old Syracuse convent sold to developer planning apartments
Developer Mark Congel in the chapel at the Sisters of St. Francis convent in Syracuse. Congel plans to turn the convent into apartments. «Syracuse.com, Jul 15»
Historic Incarnate Word convent near UMSL saved from demolition
BEL-NOR • A push from community activists to save a historic convent near the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus has paid off, as the ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
Katy Perry's Fight to Buy Convent Just Got Weirder
A member of the order of nuns in conflict with the archdiocese over the sale of a former convent in Los Feliz says she never agreed to make the ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
Mark Congel plans to convert former Franciscan convent to apartments
Mark Congel plans to convert former Franciscan convent to apartments. 07/07/2015 04:56 PM. 07/07/2015 04:58 PM. Franciscan Campus on the north side of ... «WSYR, Jul 15»
Un-convent-ional B&B in Val Marie, Sask., a rest stop for Grasslands …
The Convent Country Inn in Val Marie, Saskatchewan, is shown in this June 19, 2015 photo. The building was a convent in 1939 but it has ... «mysask.com, Jul 15»
Alevis hold religious ceremony in Hacı Bektaş dervish convent after …
A religious service was held at an Alevi house of worship which has been turned into museum, the Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli dervish convent, for the ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
Turkey's Alevis minority conduct first official sermon in historic convent
Alevis from Turkey and from the Turkish diaspora in Europe took part in the Cem prayer on Sunday, in the 13th century convent built in the era ... «BGN NEWS, Jul 15»
Convent fire investigation continues, owner ordered to take action
Mystery continues to surround the cause of the June 5 fire that destroyed the Sisters of the Holy Nativity Convent in Fond du Lac. While there ... «Fond du Lac Reporter, Jul 15»
Reunion for 'old girls' of convent 40 years on
A reunion is being held for former pupils of The Convent of the Ladies of Mary Grammar School at the end of this month. The event will take ... «Scarborough Today, Jul 15»
Shortage of women coming into church blamed for potential convent …
The Institute of Our Lady of Mercy is currently looking to close its Convent of Mercy site at Alnwick where numbers have dwindled to just six ... «ChronicleLive, Jul 15»
