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2. Mantilla - Wikipedia

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   Side angle shot of a blond mantilla. A mantilla is a traditional female liturgical lace or silk veil or shawl worn over the head and shoulders, often over a high hair ornament called a peineta, particularly popular with women in Spain and Latin America. [1]

3. Head covering for Christian women - Wikipedia

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   Christian head covering, also known as Christian veiling, is the traditional practice of women covering their head in a variety of Christian denominations.Some Christian women wear the head covering in public worship and during private prayer at home, [1] [2] [3] while others (esp. Conservative Anabaptists) believe women should wear head coverings at all times. [4]

4. Nun's veiling - Wikipedia

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   The depiction of veil. Nun's veiling was a lightweight cloth made of wool.It was a plain weave fabric used mainly for womens' veils and dresses. Nun's veiling got its name from the fact that it was used in veils by several religious orders.

5. Veil - Wikipedia

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   A veil forms part of the headdress of some orders of nuns or religious sisters in Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism; this is why a woman who becomes a nun is said "to take the veil". In medieval times married women normally covered their hair outside the house, and a nun's veil is based on secular medieval styles, often reflecting the ...

6. Apostolnik - Wikipedia

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   Russian Orthodox nun wearing apostolnik.. An apostolnik or epimandylion is an item of clerical clothing worn by Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic nuns.It is a cloth veil that covers the head, neck, and shoulders [1] similar to a khimār form of hijab worn by Muslim women, usually black, [2] but sometimes white. [3]

7. ‘Remarkable preserved condition.’ Nun’s exhumed body draws ...

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   The nuns created a wax mask for Sister Wilhelmina’s face and also coated her hands with wax, the story said. Her body will be displayed in the chapel until May 29, when there will be a rosary ...

8. Headscarf - Wikipedia

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   Women's headscarves for sale in Damascus In Christian cultures, nuns cover their bodies and hair. Here is an example of a 16th-century wimple, worn by a widowed Queen Anna of Poland, with a veil and a ruff around the neck. A headscarf is a scarf covering most or all of the top of a person's, usually women's, hair and head, leaving the face ...

9. Mantle (monastic vesture) - Wikipedia

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   The practice of wearing a kalimavkion below the veil has only arisen in the last 300 years, and prior to this period, monks either wore no veil, or wore a pointed veil, as seen in many Russians of the old rite and icons of African saints. Nuns have been wearing a veil, in addition to the mantle since at least the 11th Century.