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The first to make this change was the Abbey of Quedlinburg, whose last Catholic Abbess died in 1514. [1] These are collegiate foundations, which provide a home and an income for unmarried ladies, generally of noble birth, called canonesses ( German : Kanonissinen ), or more usually, Stiftsdamen or Kapitularinnen .
Hilda of Whitby (or Hild; c. 614 – 680) was a saint of the early Church in Britain. She was the founder and first abbess of the monastery at Whitby which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby in 664.
Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, OIC, also known as the Abbess of Ágreda (Spanish: María de Jesús de Ágreda; born María Coronel y de Arana; 2 April 1602 – 24 May 1665), was a Franciscan religious superior and spiritual writer.
Two years later, on 7 May, Mother Columba was elected as the first abbess of the community. She continued to lead the community until 1982. She continued to lead the community until 1982. She was succeeded by Mother Gail Fitzpatrick, who served as abbess until 2006 when Mother Nettie Louise Gamble, O.C.S.O. was elected. [ 2 ]
In his last years, he oversaw, in collaboration with the first abbess, Mother Cécile Bruyère, the establishment of a community of women under the Rule of St Benedict at the abbey of Ste-Cécile de Solesmes. Neither he nor Florence de Werquignoeul desired to create a new form of religious life but to return to an ancient but living tradition.
Mother Cecilia was the first abbess to receive the Abbatial Blessing according to the traditional Pontificale in the United States. [9] In 2019, the order has expanded with eight nuns coming to Ava, Missouri. In 2021 the Benedictines bought a land to build a new monastery of St. Joseph with a Fathers Shrine. The nuns moved into the priory in 2024.
Hildegard of Bingen OSB (German: Hildegard von Bingen, pronounced [ˈhɪldəɡaʁt fɔn ˈbɪŋən]; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and ...
Saint Adelina (died 1125) was a French Benedictine nun honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. [2] She was a noblewoman of Normandy , the sister of Saint Vitalis . She became the abbess of the Benedictine convent Abbaye Blanche in Normandy , a religious community founded by her brother.