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Convents

Images

  • Church of St. Ignatius, Jesuit Pharmacy Hospital College, Rome: with a Benedictine convent and St. Mauro's monument. Line engraving after O. Grassi.
  • Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the gardens of the convent. Coloured line engraving.
  • Boer War: a group of nuns outside the military hospital at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Emerson Neilly.
  • Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.
  • Val-de-Grâce, Paris. Lithograph by Delpech after Arnout.
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    Regla del glorioso doctor de la iglesia N.G.P.S. Agustin : que han de guardar las religiosas de los conventos de Santa Catarina de Sena y Santa Indes de Monte Policiano, de la orden de N.P. Santo Domingo, establecidos en esta ciudad de la Puebla de los Angeles con las ordenanzas y constituciones ... / [compilado] por ... D. Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.

    Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. | Date: 1789
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    Woman under monasticism : chapters on saint-lore and convent life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 / by Lina Eckenstein.

    Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931. | Date: 1896
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    The scourge of demons : possession, lust, and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian convent / Jeffrey R. Watt.

    Watt, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Rodgers), 1958- | Date: 2009
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    Klostervæsen og sundhedsvæsen i Danmarks og Europas middelalder / Inger Gøtzsche.

    Gøtzsche, Inger, 1912-2001. | Date: 2001
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    Convent of Great St. Bernard, Switzerland/Italy: rescue dogs gathering outside around wounded travellers. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 22636i
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