The Service of the Poor: Being an Inquiry Into the Reasons for and Against the Establishment of Religious Sisterhoods for Charitable PurposesMacmillan & Company, 1871 - 342 pages |
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... living institution , still more of individual Deaconesses , in the writings of the Latin Fathers . . . . In the great Latin Fathers of the 4th and 5th centuries , Ambrose , Jerome , Augustine , the contemporaries of Basil , Epiphanius ...
... living institution , still more of individual Deaconesses , in the writings of the Latin Fathers . . . . In the great Latin Fathers of the 4th and 5th centuries , Ambrose , Jerome , Augustine , the contemporaries of Basil , Epiphanius ...
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... living . Edicts for their suppression were issued by the Popes Clement V. and John XXII . , the execu- tion of which was entrusted to the Inquisition . This was the beginning of a long series of persecutions , which it is happily not ...
... living . Edicts for their suppression were issued by the Popes Clement V. and John XXII . , the execu- tion of which was entrusted to the Inquisition . This was the beginning of a long series of persecutions , which it is happily not ...
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... living each at her own home . " However , " says Mosheim , " when a home for Beguinæ had been founded in a town , it was not necessary for all to go into it who had devoted themselves to this mode of life . Their order did not demand a ...
... living each at her own home . " However , " says Mosheim , " when a home for Beguinæ had been founded in a town , it was not necessary for all to go into it who had devoted themselves to this mode of life . Their order did not demand a ...
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... living where they liked . " When common dwellings were set apart for them , the manner of life was , with slight variations in dif- ferent places , generally as follows . The persons admitted were either widows or maidens of blameless ...
... living where they liked . " When common dwellings were set apart for them , the manner of life was , with slight variations in dif- ferent places , generally as follows . The persons admitted were either widows or maidens of blameless ...
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... living . But in many houses , especially in German houses , there was no account taken of the condition of the sisters , but all had an equal share in donations , and a double portion was due to the mistress . The income , therefore ...
... living . But in many houses , especially in German houses , there was no account taken of the condition of the sisters , but all had an equal share in donations , and a double portion was due to the mistress . The income , therefore ...
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