Convents

from Calcutta to America in search of education. “When we left India, we were almost identical in appearance and attitude. We dressed alike, in saris; we expressed identical views on politics, social issues, love and marriage in the same Calcutta convent-school accent.” This shows that almost identical to the touch, they left for the United States. Once the two sisters separated, their plan to go back to India in two years took a U-turn. “After 36 years as a legal immigrant in this country, she…

taken care of in the homes of those in the community and were brought to temples for healing. Care of the sick were often viewed as an act of charity and women were usually given the task of nursing. Due to many religious beliefs, as monasteries and convents were wiped out, so were hospitals. Nursing took a back seat while medicine continued to evolve. The sick, the mentally ill, and the were often seen as a burden on society and were even neglected. Florence Nightingale served as a nurse…

the only fuel. The more resources people get like timber the more it makes people’s lives easier meaning that more people want that resource. Which causes the exhaustion of things like timber because people want anything that makes there lives more convent. Cutting town timber was known as a service to the community back then. Each town or city had its own timber man meaning that in every town or city people were using timber. So in every city or town the population of…

The Benedictine sisters are a preacher amass that tries to look for God inside the group. In the United States, their convent focus is Immaculata Monastery and Spirituality Center in Norfolk, Nebraska. For more than 1500 years, the manage of the Benedict has filled in as a route for men and ladies who need to carry on with a full Gospel existence with God. They were established in Tutzing, Germany, in 1885, going to the US to serve German settlers in 1923. They experience the Gospel, which is…

A woman in the Renaissance is defined by three stages in her life: Pre-Marriage/Childhood, Married, and widowed (unless she dies first) and would only be seen as a sister, a wife, a mother, and nothing more. Her place in society was “to be obedient; manage the household; rear the children; and nurse the ill.” But all in all they were considered less than men, mostly in the case of higher reasoning which society (which was influenced by the male perspective) believed only men were capable of .…

Italy. Scientists were trying to find things that cause cervical cancer. Scientists started observing women’s lifestyles with and without cervical cancer. Observed how married women were developing cervical cancer more exclusively than women of the convent. The interesting difference led researchers to believe that since the main difference between married women and nuns was sex; it was theorized that whatever was causing cervical cancer might be a sexually transmitted disease. Even their own…

I chose Saint Flora of Beaulieu as my Confirmation saint because she is a great example of faith and fortitude. She showed great fortitude and strength when she was being bullied by her sisters at the Priory. Additionally, she is a great example of faith in her unwavering devotion to God. Some other traits that Saint Flora showed were wisdom and humbleness. I would like to embody these traits, as well as, many more. For these reasons, I decided to choose Saint Flora of Beaulieu as my…

The Last Supper is a mural painted on the dining wall of the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The scene portrays Christ with the twelve apostles during the event know as the last supper. (Harris) This event is known in Christianity for the betrayal of Christ by Judas, and the institution of the sacrament…

I read the book “Finding Rebecca,” written by Eoin Dempsey. This book is a story about lost and forbidden love during the Holocaust. A Nazi soldier is torn from his Jewish lover by the Nazi occupation. Although this book is fictional it will give a reader the sense of what it was like for the terrorized Jews and also the German soldiers who did not agree with Hitler. The book is written in the point of view of Christopher, a German soldier. We hear his thoughts and feelings throughout the…

Back in the day kings and emperors were actually not the only rulers that consolidated their power in the high Middle Ages; popes also did, and that was through a series of measures that would make the church more independent of secular control. “Under the leadership of a series of reforming popes in the eleventh century, the church tries to end this practice” (p.267). It was the popes’ efforts that were sometimes challenged by the medieval kings and emperors, in which the wealth of the church…