Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer.

She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.

Her Vita tells us she was enclosed with an older nun, Jutta, at the age of eight.

Every day she begged to be able to enter a temple and become a nun instead of marrying.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.

In 1969, she starred opposite Elvis Presley as a nun in Change of Habit.

Charumati later on become a nun herself and built a convent where she resided and practiced Lord Buddha's doctrine.

Baptised around 1684 as Dona Béatrice, Kimpa Vita was raised Catholic and being very pious she became a nun seeing visions of St. Anthony of Padua ordering her to restore the kingdom of Kongo to its former glory.

Her father hears how she is bested ; and, her innocence being established, causes her to be set at large ; but she, being minded to tarry no longer in the world, becomes a nun.

An abbess rises in haste and in the dark, with intent to surprise an accused nun in bed with her lover: thinking to put on her veil, she puts on instead the breeches of a priest that she has with her.

Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in service to the Church and to acts of charity.

# Catherine FitzCharles ( born 1658 ; she either died young or became a nun at Dunkirk )

After she returned to Germany following the deposition of her husband in 1031, she became later a nun and today is reverenced as Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia.

At his funeral in Brauweiler, according to Bruno of Toul ( later Pope Leo IX ), she put her fine jewelry on the altar and declared that she devote the rest of her life as a nun and to preserved the memory of the Ezzonen dynasty.

Eventually she became a nun there, but ca.

Oda returned to Germany and entered in the Abbey of Quedlinburg as a nun, where she died almost thirty years after her husband, in 1023.

As a novice nun, she feels that she cannot sacrifice her own immortal soul ( and that of Claudio's, if he causes her to lose her virtue ) to save Claudio's transient earthly life.

If she, and the order, determine that she may have a vocation to the life, she receives the habit of the order ( usually with some modification, normally a white veil instead of a black, to distinguish her from professed nuns ) and undertakes the novitiate, a period ( that lasts one to two years ) of living the life of a nun without yet taking vows.

In most Dragon Quest games, players must visit a church ( known as a House of Healing in the NES translations ) and talk to a priest or nun to save the games ' progress ; in Dragon Warrior, players had to talk to a king to save their progress, though the first two Dragon Quest titles for NES use a password save system.

If the party dies in battle the group loses half of its gold and warps to the nearest save location where the hero is revived ; players must then pay a priest or nun to revive their party members.

Lorenzo vows to win the hand of Antonia, but must visit his sister Agnes, who is a nun at the nearby abbey.

In the lineage of the vinaya, the requirements for ordination as a monk or a nun include the presence of at least five other monks, one of whom must be a fully ordained preceptor, and another an acharya ( teacher ).

Halt, eben, einmal * ( in this context, always unshortened ) and nun einmal ( shortened: nun mal ) imply that the ( often unpleasant ) fact expressed in a sentence cannot be changed and must be accepted.

Typically, to become a nun, one must be the disciple of a master for two years before ordination.

However a Bishop ( who, in the Orthodox Church, must always be a monk ) may Tonsure a monk or nun into any degree regardless of his own monastic rank.

As a nun, you must always be committed to Buddhism and to all living beings.

According to Buddhist monastic codes ( Vinaya ), a person must be 20 years old in order to become a monk or nun.

As bishop, he immediately adopted an ascetic lifestyle, apportioned his money to the poor, donating all of his land, making only provision for his sister Marcellina ( who later became a nun ), and committed the care of his family to his brother.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth had departed her family after the death of her husband in 1905 and donated all her wealth to the poor and became a nun, but was nonetheless killed.

In common parlance, all members of male religious institutes are often termed " monks " and those of female religious institutes " nuns ", although in a more restricted sense, a monk is one who lives in a monastery under a monastic rule such as that of Saint Benedict and the term " nun " was in the 1917 Code of Canon Law officially reserved for members of a women's religious institute of solemn vows, and is sometimes applied only to those who devote themselves wholly to the contemplative life and belong to one of the enclosed religious orders living and working within the confines of a monastery and reciting the Liturgy of the Hours in community.

The trial was over in ten days, and Maas found the nun not guilty of all charges by reason of insanity in March 1977.

In religious organizations, the laity consists of all members who are not a part of the clergy, whether they are or are not members of religious institutes, for example a nun or lay brother.

Several Mahayana orders accept female practitioners as monks, instead of using the normal title of " nun ", and they are considered equal to male ascetics in all respects.

They all exchange stories of what has happened, and Mary's story of why she decided not to be a nun anymore plants a seed in Lyra's mind.

* The Gurumukhi sounds ñ ( ਞ ), ng ( ਙ ), ṇ ( ਣ ), nh (ੰ/ં) are all written with: ں: nun ghunna ( nun without dot ).

When he lost his metalhead credibility after staying up all night and reading the Bible with a nun, the band informally disbanded and left him behind.

She refused all proposals of marriage and, without her parents ' knowledge, ran away to the convent of which her aunt was the abbess and became a nun.

Orthodox monasticism does not have religious orders as in the West, so there are no formal Monastic Rules ( Regulae ); rather, each monk and nun is encouraged to read all of the Holy Fathers and emulate their virtues.

A monk ( or nun ) may remain in this grade all the rest of his life, if he so chooses.

The necklace she wears on her neck bears the Virgilian motto ' Amor vincit omnia ' ( love conquers all ) is a dubious maxim for a nun which perhaps takes the place of a rosary and further illustrates her fascination with courtly love.

#" Tommy's Song " ( 1: 32 )-When all is said and done, Tom should have been a nun.

In Night Town gangs and punks run the streets, and all the local kids go to school at a church, taught by a nun and a young teacher, in hopes of giving them what they need to escape their meager living.

Und wenn wir ’ s mal so nehmen: Wenn die Lesben und Schwulen nun auch noch Kinder kriegen würden, dann hätten wir heute noch viel mehr Arbeitslose " (" That lesbians and gays can't have children is after all quite natural.

On the appointed day the nun goes through all the ritual of the marriage ceremony, after a solemn mass at which all the inmates of the convent assist.