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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 .
The original site was to be in Argentina, where there was already a new monastery founded by the monks of the Trappist abbey near to Wrentham. That site did not work out, however, so the abbess, Mother Angela, O.C.S.O., asked the Trappists abbots of the United States for possible sites.
The nuns soon settled in and established themselves; they were formally declared a new monastic community on 15 August 1963. It was established as an independent abbey the following year, and the founding Mother Superior, Mother Myriam Dardenne, O.C.S.O., was elected the community's first abbess on 21 November 1964. [2]
List of Catholic Church musicians is a list of people who perform or compose Catholic music, a branch of Christian music.Names should be limited to those whose Catholicism affected their music and should preferably only include those musicians whose works have been performed liturgically in a Catholic service, or who perform specifically in a Catholic religious context.
On May 13, 2001, Mother David Serna, O.S.B., prioress of the abbey, became the second Abbess of Regina Laudis. [8] On February 1, 2015, Lucia Kuppens, O.S.B., was elected the Third Abbess of the Abbey of Regina Laudis. Kuppens is a student and lover of Shakespeare with a Ph.D. in English from Yale University.
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.
Lluc Sanctuary, Majorca; Monasterio de Piedra, Zaragoza Province; Nuestra Señora de Rueda Monastery, Zaragoza Province; San Salvador of Leyre Abbey, Navarre; Santa María de El Paular Monastery, Madrid Province
Brigid is honoured on 1 February in the calendars of the Catholic Church in Ireland, as well as the Anglican Church of Ireland, Church of England, [45] and Episcopal Church. [ 46 ] She is a patroness saint of Ireland (and one of its three national saints), as well as of healers, poets, blacksmiths, livestock and dairy workers, among others.