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Abbess meaning
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. | A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.
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Claire Benedict as the compassionate Abbess, and Phoebe Naughton as the wronged Courtesan, are also terrific.
In both casts, though, you can see and hear incredibly talented veterans of musical theater, including Juliana Sloan as Maria, Jonathan von Mering as Georg Von Trapp, and Sarah Wolter as The Mother Abbess.
Respects were paid to Sunnah and 17-year-old Joe Abbess, who both drowned in the tragedy, by public service leaders and members of the public at St Nicholas’ Church.
By then, she had become an abbess in charge of a small community of nuns at The Paraclete—a monastery founded by Abelard and named after one of his famous philosophical arguments.
Also in 1157, on the death of patriarch Fulcher, Melisende, her half-sister Sibylla of Flanders, and Ioveta the Abbess of Bethany, had Amalric of Nesle appointed as patriarch of Jerusalem.
At the abbey, Maria says that she is ready to take her monastic vows ; but the Mother Abbess realizes that she is running away from her feelings.
Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.
Having been eased out of a Benedictine convent, where she had been placed at the age of seven, she built her own convent, over which she ruled as Abbess.
Her sisters, the countess of Tripoli and abbess of Bethany, came to nurse her before she died on 11 September 1161.
Lisa McCune played Maria, John Waters was Captain von Trapp, Bert Newton was Max, Eilene Hannan was Mother Abbess, and Rachel Marley was Marta.
Michael Jayston played Captain von Trapp, Honor Blackman was the Baroness and June Bronhill the Mother Abbess.
Richeza planned to make Brauweiler the Ezzonen family crypt, in 1051 interring the remains of her sister Adelaide, Abbess of Nivelles.
The Abbess is required to be an Austrian Archduchess.
The abbess tries to discourage her from working with the irreverent Beethoven.
The cast included Sandra Pires as Maria, Kurt Schreibmayer and Michael Kraus as von Trapp, with Heidi Brunner as Mother Abbess.
Their nephew, returning home a desperate man, falls in love with an abbess, in whom he discovers the daughter of the King of England.
The lead roles went to opera stars: Frederica von Stade as Maria, Håkan Hagegård as Captain von Trapp, and Eileen Farrell as the Mother Abbess.
The Mother Abbess and the other nuns consider what to do about her (" Maria ").
The national tour starred Florence Henderson as Maria and Beatrice Krebs as Mother Abbess.
The nun, after pointing out her abbess's head covering, is acquitted, and thenceforth finds it easier to meet with her lover.