Nun Appleton Priory was a priory near Appleton Roebuck, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded as a nunnery c. 1150, by Eustace de Merch and his wife...

Church, Lutheran Churches, and Anglican Communion. Priories may be monastic houses of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines, the Cistercians, or the...

"Upon Appleton House" describes Fairfax's Nunappleton estate while also reflecting upon the political and religious concerns of the time. Nun Appleton Priory...

his seat in Yorkshire. His wife died in 1665 and Fairfax died at Nun Appleton Priory in 1671. He was buried at St James' Church, Bilbrough, near York...

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of the first Christian King of Kent. Currently the priory is home to a community of Benedictine nuns. Five of the most notable English abbeys are the Basilica...

its successor, Amesbury Priory, following the particular structures of its parent Order of Fontevraud, was both a convent of nuns and a corresponding monastery...

William Constable, and Anne, wife of Sir George Wentworth of Woolley. Nun Appleton Priory Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Fairfax, Thomas (1560-1640)" . Dictionary...

Holy Trinity and St Mary. The priory was fairly large, having in 1337 sixteen nuns, who called themselves "the White Nuns of St. Augustine". It also had...

reformation of nuns at Rome under Dominic's guidance. In May 1220 at Bologna the order's first General Chapter mandated that each new priory of the order...

mid-twelfth century, a girl was brought to Watton Priory as a child, but had no real religious vocation. This Nun of Watton became pregnant by a lay brother...

pounds a year. The priory's former nuns were not offered pensions and this may be the reason that two of them joined Nun Appleton Priory and Cecily Swale...

known as "The Nun of Kent", "The Holy Maid of London", "The Holy Maid of Kent" and later "The Mad Maid of Kent", was an English Catholic nun. She was executed...

few weeks the four were sent to Swine, Handale, Wallingwells and Nun Appleton Priories respectively, although there is some doubt as to whether de Holme...

order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its own rule, called the Statutes, and their life combines...

the first female cricket club in England was formed in 1887 at Nun Appleton Priory in Yorkshire by eight ladies who thought it "advisable to start a...

abbey (and which is therefore called a "priory"). In some orders, like the Benedictines, a monastery remains a priory until it is considered stable enough...

south-west of York. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Holme Green and Nun Appleton, and covers an area of around 2,900 acres (1,200 ha). The parish had...

Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...

Category:Abbesses of Ely "Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey and cathedral priory of Ely". Victoria County History. 2 (A History of the County of Cambridge...

Abbess of Fontevraud but by a former subprioress. Some nuns were also brought from Westwood Priory in Worcestershire, also a Fontevraud house. The new community...

A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, convent means the building used by the community. The term...

Canada, 1912 Quarr Abbey, England, 1922 Montserrat Priory [es], Madrid, Spain, 1939 Schoelcher Priory, Martinique, 1947 Fontgombault Abbey, France, 1948...

developed over its history, are the upland near the Bourbince River, the priory and basilica, a rectangular town center with very dense housing, national...

be involved in various ministries. Nuns - The "Second Order" actually pre-dates the friars, as the Dominican nuns trace their founding to a monastery...

Silverstream Priory "Moeder Mechtildis", Priorij Nazareth, Tegelen Georges. "Saint-Dié." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company...

been established as a community of Dominican nuns in 1865–66 (on a different site from the earlier priory) was so renamed. In 1046, William FitzOsbern...

of Cistercian nuns in a monastery that she herself had founded in Trzebnica. Upon her return to Prague, Agnes was entrusted to a priory of Premonstratensian...

Adjacent to the monastery is the Priory of Our Lady of Peace of Olivetan Benedictine nuns. The monastery and the priory share worship services. While the...

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