A postulant (from Latin: postulare, to ask) was originally one who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate. The use of the term is now generally...

a monk, one first must be accepted by a community as a postulant. During the time of postulancy the man lives at the monastery to test his vocation, to...

Postulancy: candidates live as a member of the monastery as a postulant for some months and are guided by the novice director. Novitiate: postulants will...

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are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value. Postulants make votive offerings in hopes of having a wish granted, or a prayer answered...

provided by the Mother Superior of a convent where she is training as a postulant. A local reporter pursues Father Brown, accusing him in the press of impropriety...

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the prioress to receive Therese. On 9 April 1888 she became a Carmelite postulant. The convent Therese entered was an old-established house with a long...

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(Dorothean) in Vilar, a suburb of Porto, Portugal. In 1928 she became a postulant at the convent of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy in Tui, Spain, near the...

mountain range. The four are taken there by a party directed by Chang, a postulant at the lamasery who speaks English. The lamasery has modern conveniences...

write: At one stage in the initiation procedure, Christian tells us...the postulant climbs down an iron ladder, with seventy-eight rungs, and enters a hall...

Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. The event occurred to a former Carmelite postulant, Teresita Castillo. The original statue associated with the apparition...

the Dissolution, Prioress Jane Vane wrote to Cromwell on behalf of a postulant, saying that though she had not actually been professed, she was professed...

punishments on the young postulants spending their first months at the convent; comparatively, the nun overseeing the postulants' direct education, Sister...

requirements for the duration of the novitiate. The novice must complete a postulancy before being admitted to the novitiate, the duration of which can be short...

the Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1960 as a lay postulant, but left less than a year later to lay the groundwork for his own religious...

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she entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, as a postulant, intending to become a nun. Maria was asked to teach one of the seven...

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lasts from 12 months to three years and can be compared in many ways to a postulant in religious life. Discipleship Stage: the seminarian begins his academic...

October 1925, she entered the Institute of the Sisters of St. Dorothy as a postulant in the convent in Pontevedra, Spain, just across the northern Portuguese...

Visitandines convent in Avignon, d'Aubigny followed, entering the convent as a postulant. In order to run away with her new love, she stole the body of a dead...

Filipina who said she had Marian visions. Castillo was a Discalced Carmelite postulant in the late 1940s and could not stay in Carmel due to the controversies...

helps her to make up her mind and she leaves midwifery behind to become a postulant. Although the character of Jenny was written out at the end of the previous...

July 1866, with 42 other candidates, she took the religious habit of a postulant and joined the Sisters of Charity at their motherhouse, the Saint Gildard...

this order, she felt as if she were at home. The order accepted her as a postulant, inviting her to enter on August 15, 1944. She was 21 years old. On November...