What is "convents"

Usage examples of "convents".

This was also published in the black frame beside the great door of the Frari and posted upon the entrance to the church of the Servi, while in the refectories of the respective convents it formed a theme of absorbing interest.

In the second place, I should not be half so comfortable in the convents as I am with our devout benefactors.

The countess gave me her usual welcome, and, after the thousand nothings which it is the custom to utter in society before anything worth saying is spoken, I led the conversation up to the convents of Venice.

They sought asylum at Vienna, promising to make themselves useful to the State by establishing an Armenian press to furnish all the Armenian convents with books.

British, and Marmont evacuated the town in the night, leaving a garrison of some eight hundred men, in forts constructed on the rains of colleges and convents, which commanded the bridge that crosses the river Tormes.

Some horrible things can happen in these here convents, take my word for it.

Dominican and Capuchin convents of that city, until proper houses could be prepared for their reception at Tivoli and Frescati.

We invite and desire that the nobility, archbishops, bishops, abbeys, convents, seignories, magistrates, and inhabitants of the republic of Poland, on the road to Posnania, and beyond it, would repair in person or by deputies, in the course of this week, or as soon after as possible, to the Prussian head-quarters, there to treat with the commander-in-chief, or the commissary at war, for the delivery of forage and provisions for the subsistence of the army, to be paid for with ready money.

Or there were disaffected brothers, who had left their convents and were roaming through the land inciting to rebellion, to whom it was needful to teach the value of quiet, however summary the process.

The prouder monasteries and convents were hesitant to admit common travelers, and Da had always hated to attract notice to himself.

It has also been reported that the Church is allowing monasteries and convents to store arms for the rebels.

In some of the other orders, flagellation ad been stopped, but in the cloistered Cistercian convents monasteries it survived.

As for the Cistercian convents of the Strict Observance, there are in existence today fifty-four convents, worldwide, seven of them in Spain.

Voorhees added that in 1854 or 1855 the Know Nothings broke up convents, burned Catholic churches, and would have burned Catholics and Sisters of Charity themselves at the stake within her borders, if they had dared to do so.

In March and April 1790 more men wearing tricolor sashes arrived at convents and monasteries to ensure that the decrees of the Assembly were being communicated and respected by abbots and mothers superior.