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  • Thumbnail for Veil of Veronica
    The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting...
    26 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 29 March 2024
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    scuffle and left behind (and shortly after dies of fever). Schedoni and Ellena arrive in Naples, where Schedoni places Ellena in the convent of Santa Maria...
    35 KB (4,942 words) - 03:59, 14 November 2024
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    Veil of Veronica suggests a link between the two traditions. This image was kept in Rome's church of San Silvestro in Capite, attached to a convent of...
    27 KB (3,536 words) - 04:03, 23 October 2024
  • given a higher education than normal for a woman by monks from the St Peter's convent in Ghent and could speak and read Latin, which she taught to her...
    6 KB (615 words) - 19:35, 18 October 2024
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    Matilda of Scotland (category Scottish patrons of the arts)
    forced her to wear a veil. In 1093, Matilda was engaged to an English nobleman until her father and her brother Edward were killed in the Battle of Alnwick...
    24 KB (3,002 words) - 09:40, 30 October 2024
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    death. The clothing of the sisters consisted of a white tunic and scapular, a leather belt, a black mantle, and a black veil. Candidates to profession...
    95 KB (11,496 words) - 23:03, 11 November 2024
  • interacting with the sisters and experiencing community life in the convents. The women also have to deal with homesickness, the leaving behind of most of their...
    9 KB (592 words) - 16:34, 14 August 2024
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    Claudine Guérin de Tencin (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    was president of the parlement. Claudine was brought up at a convent near Grenoble and, at the wish of her parents, took the veil but broke her vows...
    6 KB (740 words) - 18:02, 5 March 2024
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    developed a relationship with Sant'Orsola, a convent held in high regard in Florence. From the convent, Lisa is known to have purchased distillation...
    26 KB (3,236 words) - 14:50, 22 October 2024
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    Coopey Falls (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    of the convent, after first asking permission. A view of the falls is also accessible from the Angels's Rest trailhead half mile west of the convent. The...
    2 KB (207 words) - 17:11, 19 September 2023
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    Rita of Cascia (category People from the Province of Perugia)
    the deaths of her husband and sons, Rita desired to enter the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene in Cascia, but was turned away. Although the convent acknowledged...
    20 KB (2,198 words) - 07:52, 23 October 2024
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    Antonia, Ambrosio administers the poison, and Antonia appears to die. He takes Antonia to the crypt beneath the convent, where, she awakens from her drugged...
    58 KB (8,168 words) - 20:32, 11 November 2024
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    a member of the German Youth Movement, and Willi Graf was a member of Neudeutschland ("New Germany"), and the Grauer Orden ("Grey Convent"), which were...
    64 KB (7,903 words) - 22:13, 7 November 2024
  • in the middle of the night and quickly gets dressed. She accidentally puts his underpants on her head mistaking it for her veil and rushes out of the door...
    28 KB (4,070 words) - 09:57, 26 October 2024
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    Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    boyars, she was arrested and forced to withdraw to the Novodevichy Convent without formally taking the veil. Sophia may have made one last attempt at securing...
    15 KB (1,936 words) - 15:56, 27 April 2024
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    Bernadette Soubirous (category Christian female saints of the Late Modern era)
    1862, and the Marian apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1866, Soubirous joined the Sisters of Charity of Nevers at their convent in Nevers...
    43 KB (4,993 words) - 20:17, 27 October 2024
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    abstaining, discards her veil, rips the loin cloth from the crucifix in front of her, and demands such punishment from the nuns, who have now congregated...
    9 KB (980 words) - 06:57, 13 November 2024
  • pure-gold sheaf weighing 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) A 36-kilogram (79 lb) golden veil 1200 'Sarappalli' pure-gold coin-chains encrusted with precious stones weighing...
    17 KB (2,030 words) - 20:28, 9 September 2024
  • Viridiana to wear the wedding dress and veil that he has lovingly preserved. After drugging her coffee, he carries her to the bed and is on the verge of raping...
    12 KB (1,105 words) - 15:50, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Speculations about Mona Lisa
    the scan and infrared were used by Bruno Mottin of the French Museums' "Center for Research and Restoration" to argue that the transparent gauze veil...
    35 KB (3,933 words) - 07:00, 3 September 2024
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