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    An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey. In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic)...
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    authority of the Abbess of Fontevraud. The Abbey of Fontevraud itself consisted of four separate communities, all managed by the same abbess. The first permanent...
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  • Shane Abbess is an Australian filmmaker best known for making the movies Gabriel and Infini. For a time he was attached to direct Source Code and The Dark...
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    as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary...
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    Glodesind, abbess in Metz (died c. 600) Burgundofara, abbess of Moutiers (died 645) Sadalberga, abbess of Laon (died 670) Rictrude, founding abbess of Marchiennes...
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    Prince-abbot (redirect from Princess-abbess)
    prince-bishops. They ranked higher than the imperial abbots and imperial abbesses who although they were also immediate, held only two collective votes in...
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  • by 893 when Asser was writing. Alfred appointed Æthelgifu as its first abbess and she was joined by "many other noble nuns". Alfred granted the abbey...
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    abbess and founder of the community From 1603 the abbesses held the title of "Abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen". Kunigunde Frey von Dehrn, abbess around...
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    notable abbesses including several saints, former queens and the daughters of kings. The abbess of Barking held precedence over all other abbesses in England...
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    Abbesses (French pronunciation: [abɛs], literally Abbesses) is a station on Paris Métro Line 12, in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondissement...
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