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Meaning of "nunneries"

nunnery (noun) - A nunnery is a religious residence for nuns, where they live a contemplative and religious life in a cloistered community
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The buildings are still used as nunneries today.
Some nunneries have rules like the military.
Corrodians were in essence pensioners who lived in monasteries or nunneries.
Nunneries were not far behind in their contribution to viticulture.
Temples and nunneries also dot the park.
There is no electricity in the nunneries.
To visit various nunneries over four weeks to do her prayers.
That you abstract nunneries.
Other nunneries were taken into the congregation as already existing communities.
Monks and nuns are not permitted to return to their monasteries or nunneries.
Not in nunneries.
Men were the usual students since women were either taught at home or in nunneries.
The mother lived the rest of her life in nunneries and John supported her economically.
It is an important religious place with many niches and monasteries and nunneries.
Monasteries and nunneries in Tibet having sister affiliations abroad are barred from maintaining any contacts.

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Sagaing is a monastic community that houses hundreds of nunneries and monasteries.
Tibetan monasteries and nunneries have become a major area of crackdown for the Chinese authorities.
It became one of the largest and most famous nunneries in Tibet.
Analysis of nunneries in their territorial context Read More.
When successful they will be able to teach Buddhist philosophy in nunneries and schools.
It was the poorest of the nunneries within the Diocese of Norwich.
Most if not all of the Johannesminne statues were created for Dominican convents and nunneries.
He teaches widely in the West and oversees nunneries and monasteries in Tibet and Nepal.
The Centre of Bioethics Studies and Culture also arranged medical examinations in monasteries and nunneries.
Convents and Nunneries.
Chūgū-ji is one of three nunneries in Yamato whose chief priestesses were imperial princesses.
He also has responsibility for the Cistercian nunneries in Switzerland.
She will visiting various nunneries over 4 weeks, practicing her prayers and also resting.
Help with self-sufficiency projects in the nunneries.
Girls of noble families were taught in nunneries such as Elcho, Aberdour and Haddington.
Your Honor, we ask that you abstract nunneries.
There are still Vallumbrosan nunneries at Faenza and San Gimignano, besides two at Florence.
It has been described as " one of the most important nunneries in the country.
The nunneries of Laval-Bénite Abbey and Bonnecombe Abbey were also under the jurisdiction of Bonnevaux.
The principles also include an annual “ contest ” among the various monasteries and nunneries in TAR.
Buddhist nunneries created " baby towers " for people to leave a child.
His Holiness is also building environmentally-sound monasteries and nunneries in India.
Communes, crèches, kibbutzes, monasteries and nunneries lose the enthusiasm of their founders and decay.
There are 22 temples, of which fourteen are male monasteries and eight are nunneries.
She went to nunneries where there is no electricity . Really!
Bella Queen company has a good relationship with most of nunneries in Brazil, India, Malaysia and.
The Cistercians had a ramified system that ultimately included 742 monasteries and about 900 nunneries.
The Historia compostelana records that there were no nunneries in Galicia around the year 1100.
Between the 15th and 19th centuries, instances of motor hysteria were common in nunneries.
She asked, along with her husband, two nunneries ( Order of the Discalced Carmelites ) in Pastrana.
For 11 years I attended debating competitions with other Nunneries.
It was one of about 150 nunneries in medieval England.
After the death of Paula in 404, Eustochium assumed the direction of the nunneries.
In exile, more than 200 monasteries and nunneries have been re-established in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
The Beuronese Congregation has consisted since 2004 of ten monasteries and ten nunneries.

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