And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

As a young man, Grimoard became a Benedictine monk in the small Priory of Chirac, near his home, which was a dependency of the ancient Abbey of St. Victor near Marseille, and he was sent there for his novitiate.

In Ellicott City, Maryland the Conventual Franciscans of the St. Anthony Province dedicated their old novitiate house as The Shrine of St. Anthony which since 1 July 2004 serves as the official Shrine to Saint Anthony for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the nation's premier see.

There is a Jesuit Center with a small Jesuit community here ; Wernersville was once the location of the Jesuit novitiate center for the Society's Maryland Province, before the novitiates of the New York and Maryland provinces merged and it was relocated to Syracuse, New York.

Apart from this general clerical tonsure, some Western Rite monastic orders, for example Carthusians and Trappists, employed a very full version of tonsure, shaving the head entirely bald and keeping only a narrow ring of short hair, sometimes called " the monastic crown " ( see " Roman tonsure ", above ), from the time of entrance into the monastic novitiate for all monks, whether destined for service as priests or brothers.

He no longer felt Merton was suitable material for a Franciscan vocation as a friar, and even said that the August novitiate was now full.

Pope Gregory XVI and the general master of the Dominicans, Father Ancarani, supported his plan, the latter providing the Roman convent of Santa Sabina to serve as a novitiate for French Dominicans.

In September 1838, Lacordaire returned to France to identify candidates for the novitiate as well as financial and political support.

After living the novitiate monastic life for some time, the boy, now considered to have " come of age ," will either take higher ordination as a fully ordained monk ( a bhikkhu ) or will ( more often ) return to lay life.

* Perpetual vows of chastity in a religious institute ( It is harder to be excused from permanent, solemn vows as a religious than it is from the novitiate or from preliminary, initial vows, especially if the religious is ordained ; it requires the permission of the local and regional religious superior, the knowledge of the local ordinary, and the permission-subject to final papal approval-of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life ).

Ryken prepared for a journey to Rome to receive the permission and blessing of Pope Gregory XVI by going through a term of probation in the novitiate of the Redemptorist Fathers.

Adams took long sabbaticals in Catholic rectories, and in 1922 she donated her estates at Lake Ronkonkoma to one of these places, the Sisters of St. Regis, for use as a novitiate and retreat house.

Bishop Brian Farrell, 66, a member of the Legionaries who was ordained a priest for the congregation in 1969, is a Dublin native and presently is the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity ( from 1970 to 1976 he served as director of the Legionaries ' U. S. novitiate in Orange, Connecticut ).

At sixteen he finished the expected grades and was admitted to the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Trenčín, Slovakia, where he stayed for two years.

The novitiate for the formation program is in Peru.

Córdoba, Argentina, the largest city associated with the reductions, was atypical as a Spanish settlement predated the Jesuits, and functioned as a centre for the Jesuit presence with a novitiate centre, and a college that is now the local university.

Different religious communities will have varying requirements for the duration of the novitiate.

The novitiate of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus just outside Wernersville, Pennsylvania was named for Jogues.

Next follows the novitiate which is the time for preparing to take the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

The novitiate year is crucial, for it is then “… that the novices better understand their divine vocation, and indeed one which is proper to the institute, experience the manner of living of the institute, and form their mind and heart in its spirit, and so that their intention and suitability are tested .” Thus, the novices are given the opportunity for longer periods of prayer and spiritual reading as well as silence in order to reflect on the vocation God is offering and nature of their response.

During their final semester of undergraduate studies at Divine Word College, young men who choose to continue with the SVD may apply for the Society ’ s one-year novitiate program at the Chicago Province Headquarters in Techny, Illinois.

These men may then apply to profess first vows as members of the Society near the end of the novitiate program and continue with seminary studies at the Chicago Theologate.

A novitiate was opened at Granville, Wisconsin, in 1892.

Under the new form of government the congregation is subject to a superior general, whose term of office is six years and is divided into provinces, each possessing a novitiate.

Gusmão began his novitiate in the Society of Jesus at Bahia when he was about fifteen years old, but left the order in 1701.

In 1948, Harlaxton was purchased by The Society of Jesus, who used it as a novitiate.

He went to Rome and, because of his noble birth, gained an audience with Pope Sixtus V. Following a brief stay at the Palazzo Aragona Gonzaga, the Roman home of his cousin, Cardinal Scipione Gonzaga, on 25 November 1585 he was accepted into the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Rome.

Léger then joined the Society of Saint-Sulpice, entering its novitiate in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

It houses the tomb of King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia and Piedmont, who abdicated in 1815 to enter the Society of Jesus and then lived in the Jesuit novitiate, adjacent to the church, until his death in 1819.

The extant sketches of his life give no uniform information respecting the dates of events ; it is, however, unanimously stated that when sixteen years old he entered the novitiate of the upper German province of the Society of Jesus, at Landsberg, took the usual course of instruction, and in addition was for a time teacher of the lowest class at the gymnasium.

James Waterworth was educated at Stonyhurst, he went subsequently to Montrouge to enter the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, in which he did not long continue.

He entered the Society of Jesus at sixteen ( 1719 ) in the novitiate of Villagarcía de Campos, studying philosophy and theology at the University of Salamanca.

The novitiate of the Polish Province of Society of Jesus was opened in Braunsberg in 1568.

Although the members of the Society do not undergo a novitiate or take religious vows, they do go through a period of formation which takes several years ; they also make promises.

The novitiate of the Missouri and New Orleans Provinces of the Society of Jesus — The Jesuit novitiate of Saint Stanislaus Kostka at Saint Charles College — located in Grand Coteau, Louisiana is dedicated under his patronage.

After the Society was formed, the Exercises became the central component of the Jesuit novitiate training program, and they usually take place during the first year of a two year novitiate.

The novitiate was devoted to spiritual instruction and development, concentrating on instruction in the tradition of the Society of Jesus and its spirituality, and being guided through the full, month-long experience of Ignatius of Loyola ’ s Spiritual Exercises.

He entered the Society on December 5, 1857, made his novitiate at Gorheim near Sigmaringen, and took his first Vows on December 8, 1859.

He was a surgeon before entering the novitiate of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ) at Paris on March 16, 1639.

Shortly after his arrival from Macau to Japan in 1577, he joined the novitiate in the Society of Jesus.

His companion in the novitiate, Bernard Mary of Jesus exclaimed: