Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

The presence of this royal personage, beatified in 1693, proved to be of great benefit when she bequeathed her valuable estate to the convent.

As a tertiary, she lived outside the convent, at home with her family like before.

In fact, Margarette Reglerin, a daughter of a wealthy Nuremberg family, was dismissed from a convent because she did not have the ability or will to learn.

His daughter Fanny achieved notice when she converted to Roman Catholicism and entered a convent.

Of Louise little is known after her early salacious life in Paris, but in due course she lived for a time in a convent in Savoy before her death in 1726.

Some sources indicate that Arden was Catholic based solely on the fact that she had, at one point, attended a Roman Catholic convent school.

Fond of Carreen O ' Hara, he cannot pursue that relationship as she decides to enter a convent.

There is no written record of the twenty-four years of Hildegard's life that she was in the convent together with Jutta.

In June 1497, she is known to have retired to the convent of San Sisto to await the outcome of the divorce which was finalized in December of that year.

As a young girl, she was sent to the convent of Herford, where her grandmother Matilda was abbess and where her reputation for beauty and virtue ( probably also her Westphalian dowry ) is said to have attracted the attention of Duke Otto I of Saxony, who betrothed her to his recently divorced son and heir, Henry the Fowler.

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

The following year ( October 830 ), after a brief rebellion and reconciliation between Louis and his sons, Gregory declared that Louis ’ second wife Judith was to be released from the convent where she had been forced to take the veil, and to be returned to Louis.

Stephen's daughter Marie I of Boulogne also survived her father ; she had been placed in a convent by Stephen, but after his death left and married.

Now about 34, she has had an affair with an officer in her household and has allegedly plotted to overthrow Valentinian, who has sent her to a convent at Constantinople.

* Rogneda ( the daughter of Rogvolod ), later upon divorce she entered a convent taking the Christian name of Anastasia

In 1138 she founded the large convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany where her younger sister Ioveta would rule as abbess.

This peace settlement demonstrated that though Melisende lost the " civil war " to her son, she still maintained great influence and avoided total obscurity in a convent.

In 1384 a Castilian army invested Lisbon, but encountered a heroic resistance, and after five months an outbreak of plague compelled them to raise the siege, John I of Castile, discovering or alleging that Leonora had plotted to poison him, imprisoned her in a convent at Tordesillas, where she died in 1386.

When Sarah was young her mother sent her to Grandchamp, an Augustine convent school near Versailles In 1860 she began attending The Conservatoire de Musique at Déclemation in Paris and eventually became a student at the Comédie Française where she would have her acting debut ( August 11, 1862 ) in the title role of Racine's Iphigénie to lackluster reviews.

* Edith Wharton ( 1862 – 1937 ), bought Castel Sainte-Claire in 1927, on the site of a former convent in the hills above Hyères, where she lived during the winters and springs until her death in 1937.

After she persisted with her vocation, entering a convent, he remained celibate.

The story focuses on Apple Annie, an aging and wretched fruit seller in New York City, whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant.

In general, when a woman enters a convent, monastery or abbey, she first undergoes an initial period of testing the life for a period of six months to a year called a postulancy.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

They built a small convent on the spot inhabited by the holy hermit, which became too small for the accommodation of those who came to share their life of privations.

Dominic nevertheless became the spiritual father to several Albigensian women he had reconciled to the faith, and in 1206 he established them in a convent in Prouille.

In Honoré de Balzac's novel Letters of Two Brides, two women who became friends during their education at a convent correspond over a 17 year period, exchanging letters describing their lives.

After her husband had died in 936, Matilda and her son Otto established Quedlinburg Abbey in his memory, a convent of noble canonesses, where in 966 her granddaughter Matilda became the first abbess.

The political power of the convent slowly waned in the 14th century, beginning with the establishment of the Zunftordnung ( guild laws ) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who also became the first independent mayor, i. e. not nominated by the abbess.

He studied at Cambridge ( bachelor of canon law 1531 ), became priest at Norwich in 1514 and entered the convent of Austin friars at Cambridge, where Robert Barnes was prior in 1523 and probably influenced him in favour of Reform.

The building then became a convent refuge for women and girls and later Wanstead Hospital.

The two nuns of the Religious of the Sacred Heart founded a convent and a school that became the Academy of the Sacred Heart.

Eventually the church hierarchy agreed to the formation of a non-cloistered institute, and the sisters became known informally as the " walking nuns " for their ability to care for the poor outside a convent.

In 1909, it too was purchased by Madame de Leobardy and became an extension of the convent school next door.

In 1453 Kirkcudbright became a Royal burgh, and about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from Mary, Queen of Scots, to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church.

Wynnstay later became a convent and school for Catholic children.

She apparently became convinced that some of the nuns of the convent wanted to kill her, a fear which was never proved.

Fleeing the Normans, Turgot became the teacher of Olaf Kyrre in Norway for a time before returning to be made prior of the Benedictine convent of Durham Cathedral, and he may have been the confessor of Margaret of Wessex, the second wife of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, king of the Scots, and hence probably known to King Alexander I and Earl David ( later David I ) since childhood.

In 1821, the priest Joannes Cornelius Martinus Lambertz started the Ursulines convent that later became the " mother convent " of numerous new institutions spread over 4 continents.

This facility was moved to another building and the building became part of the women ’ s college founded next door, then a convent.

Later, it became a convent named in honour of Saint Rose of Lima.

In 1869, it ceased being a convent and became a psychiatric hospital.

Ippolita became a nun in the Dominican convent of S. Vincenzo.

She became a teacher in a convent in Monroe, Michigan.

Caetaro Vitorino joined the seminary to complete his studies for the priesthood ( which he had interrupted to get married ), and Rosa Maria became a nun, joining the St. Monica convent in Old Goa, where she rose to the position of prioress.

Starting 2011, the convent became an elders residence named the " Stanstead Manor ".