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The orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See include titles, chivalric orders, distinctions and medals honoured by the Holy See, with the Pope as the fount of honour, for deeds and merits of their recipients to the benefit of the Holy See, the Catholic Church, or their respective communities, societies, nations and the world at large.
Religious orders in the Annuario Pontificio Saint Bruno of Cologne, founder of the Order of Carthusians, as painted by Nicolas Mignard A genealogical tree of the Order of the Immaculate Conception with the foundress, Saint Beatrice of Silva, and other remarkable Conceptionist nuns Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata was the foundress of the Order ...
Pages in category "Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns by order" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Traditionally, nuns are members of enclosed religious orders and take solemn religious vows, while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows called "simple vows". [ 4 ] As monastics , nuns living within an enclosure historically commit to recitation of the full Divine Office throughout the day in church, usually in a ...
Enclosed religious orders are religious orders whose members strictly separate themselves from the affairs of the external world. The term cloistered is synonymous with enclosed . In the Catholic Church , enclosure is regulated by the code of canon law , either the Latin code or the Oriental code , and also by the constitutions of the specific ...
Annunciation Monastery, Sestri Levante. The Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (OMHA) [1] (Latin: Ordo Sanctissimae Annuntiationis), also known as the Turchine or Blue Nuns, as well as the Celestine Nuns, is a Roman Catholic religious order of contemplative nuns formed at Genoa, Italy, by Blessed Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata in honour of the mystery of the Incarnation of Christ.
The Order of Atonement of the Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary (mfPS) is a single (one single order, not three like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dominican and Franciscan Orders) Roman Catholic active/contemplative religious order distinguished by three branches: the Men's Branch for priests and brothers/friars, the Women's Branch for nuns and the Lay Branch for those of all ages and ...
Few Pontifical titles, other than personal nobility obtained by individual appointment into the several Pontifical equestrian orders, have been granted since the election of Pope John XXIII in 1958. In 1968, Paul VI reformed the papal court via the apostolic letter Pontificalis Domus, which reorganized the court into the Pontifical Household ...