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Monastery of the Conceptionist nuns in Campo Maior, Portugal, birthplace of Beatrice of Silva, the foundress of the religious order The Conceptionists' religious habit.. The Second Vatican Council had instructed all religious institutes to go back to the inspirations and goals of their founders and to make sure that their current orientation and lifestyles of the communities were in keeping ...
Pages in category "Spanish Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, [1] typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent. [2]
A religious sister (abbreviated: Sr.) [1] [2] in the Catholic Church is a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer and labor, or a canoness regular, who provides a service to the world, either teaching or nursing ...
Portrait of Sor Patrocinio (ca. 1890) María Rafaela de los Dolores y del Patrocinio, more commonly known as Sor Patrocinio ("Sister Protection", of Mary), also known as "the nun of the wounds" (San Clemente, Cuenca, 1811 – Guadalajara, 1891), was a Spanish nun of the Order of the Immaculate Conception.
María Soledad Torres y Acosta (2 December 1826 – 11 October 1887) - born Manuela - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Servants of Mary.
She was born in La Victoria de Acentejo on the north of the island of Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands. She trained as a Franciscan in the Saint Joseph Convent in La Orotava . Her life was involved in mysticism and controversy.
Her paternal grandfather, Juan Sánchez de Toledo, was a marrano or converso, a Jew forced to convert to Christianity or emigrate. When Teresa's father was a child, Juan was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition for allegedly returning to Judaism , but he was later able to assume a Catholic identity. [ 6 ]