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

He is buried in the former convent of Abensberg.

An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

* In France, the Dominicans are known as Jacobins, because their first convent in Paris was built near the church of Saint Jacques, ( St. James ) and Jacques ( James ) is Jacobus in Latin.

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.

It is alleged that the latter was felt to be so strongly expressive of suffering and agony, that it was found necessary to remove it from the place where it had been exhibited in the chapel of 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.

A mother superior is an abbess or other nun in charge of a Christian religious order or congregation, a convent or house of women under vows.

The building adjacent to the church is a one-time convent, but it is now the home of the Musei Riuniti which is both a civic and diocesan museum.

The palatinate, including the male convent, was in the valley, where nowadays the Roman Catholic Church of St Wiperti is situated, while the women's convent was located on the castle hill.

The church at Lydda is dedicated to St. George: so is a convent near Bethlehem, and another small one just opposite the Jaffa gate ; and others beside.

The High priestess is on the other hand, the woman chosen by the oracle to care for the convent.

It is also, an oracle that will designate the future High priest and high priestess among the new recruits establishing an order of succession within the convent.

* The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.

* August 11 – August 12 – Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston.

* The convent of Saint-Césaire is built in Arles.

* The Cistercian convent is completed in Alcobaça, Portugal.

There is also scholarly debate as to whether Julian was a nun in a nearby convent, or even a laywoman.

** The Catholic Church calls for removal of the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, whose presence had offended some Jewish leaders.

Faneromeni Church, is a church built in 1872 in the stead of another church located at the same site, constructed with the remains of La Cava castle and a convent.

Named after the former Mercy convent that was located in the same place and began performing in the middle 19th century with the planting of trees and installation of a source, later replaced by the current, more broad and stately ; playground available.

Originally located in the convent of St Barbara, the university moved to the Faliede Bagijn Church in 1577 ( now the location of the University museum ) and in 1581 to the convent of the White Nuns, a site which it still occupies, though the original building was destroyed by fire in 1616.

Holyhead's arts centre, the Ucheldre Centre, is located in the chapel of an old convent belonging to the order of the Bon Sauveur.

The Jacobin Club was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution, so-named because of the Dominican convent where they met, which had recently been located in the Rue St. Jacques ( Latin: Jacobus ), Paris.

* Santa Catalina Monastery, cloistered convent located in Arequipa, Peru

She chose a convent on an island near Constantinople, while he entered the Polychronius Monastery, located in the district of Sigiane ( Sigriano ), near Cyzicus on the Asian side of the Sea of Marmora.

The Trinitarian convent building located in the centre of the town at la Rambla was purchased.

Her shrine, alongside those of her friends, St. Martin de Porres and Saint John Macías, is located inside the convent of St. Dominic in Lima.

Among the destroyed monuments used for construction of the fort was the convent of the Mineurs brothers where Louis of Toulouse was buried and was located near the courses Belsunce and Saint-Louis.

Its Community is located in converted convent buildings in Ditchingham, about 12 miles south of Norwich.

Cardinal Gracias High School is a convent school located in eastern Bandra.

Roxas claimed a second man, who served as Yamashita's interpreter during the Second World War, told him of visiting an underground chamber there where stores of gold and silver were kept, and who told of a golden buddha kept at a convent located near the underground chambers.

The Barrio Alto is also known as the San Francisco neighborhood, after a Franciscan convent formerly located there.

University College Maastricht is located in the 15th-century Nieuwenhof convent, situated at the Zwingelput.

Penha Convent is a convent located in Vila Velha, Brazil, on the top of a high mountain overlooking the cities of Vitória and Vila Velha.

The original is a wooden carving located at a convent of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in France.

Since 1186, a well known convent of Benedictine nuns, Kirkjubæjar Abbey, was located in Kirkjubæjarklaustur, until the Reformation in 1550.

* Well of Buffalo, located in the courtyard of the cloister of San Francesco, was built by the Medici to replace an existing well to supply water to the men who lived in the convent.

Unlike monasteries, this convent has its chapel located in the center of the complex.