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Agnes of God is a 1979 play by American playwright John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth but does not believe she has. After the child is found dead, a psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. The title is a pun on the Latin phrase Agnus Dei ("lamb of God").
Agnes of God is a 1985 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was written by John Pielmeier, based on his 1979 play of the same name. The plot is about a novice nun (Tilly) who gives birth and insists that the dead child was the result of a virginal conception. A ...
The book is about a twelve-year-old girl, Jacqueline "Jack" Cooper, whose life is shattered by the death of her father by friendly fire in the War in Afghanistan. [16] Porcupine was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize , shortlisted for The Canadian Libraries Association Best Children's Book 2008, Foreword Magazine ...
Agnes was chosen to lead the new community. [3] Although life in the Florentine convent was harmonious and without faction, she missed her sister greatly. [2] Agnes later established other communities of the order, including those of Mantua, Venice, and Padua. Agnes was said to be very virtuous, and as abbess she ruled with a benevolent ...
The novel tells the story of Agnes DeWitt as Father Damien, the reverend who becomes part of the reservation community. Erdrich's narration alternates between Agnes’ early 20th-century memories and a series of interviews set in 1996 wherein another priest questions Damien about the possible canonization of Pauline Puyat.
The intimacy displayed in Venantius' correspondences to Agnes were construed as "close to being love poems"; [11] the intimacy displayed in them resulted in a "malicious rumor among Venantius' contemporaries". [3] He had to write Agnes assuring her that he only thought of her in a "fraternal or spiritual way", [11] and the nuns excluded him ...
It was immediately clear that writing this book as if nothing had happened was completely out of the question. The war in Yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s had already shaken Europe to its ...
Agnes Wickfield is a character of David Copperfield, the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens. She is a friend and confidante of David (the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiography) since his childhood and at the end of the novel, his second wife.