Carthusian

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• With their fierce dedication to undisturbed solitude, the male Carthusian order had hardly welcomed a female wing, and in the second half of the thirteenth century, a battle raged over the relative authority of the local prioresses and the vicars named by the order.

  Academic text (2007)

• Finally, Vitoria offers a very interesting observation about the limits of the obligation to eat in his treatment of Carthusian abstinence.

  Academic text (2008)

• Leaving her first house to found a new Carthusian community was an extension of this active piety.

  Academic text (2007)

• Yet the relationship of women to the Carthusian order was unsettled, just as was the case with the Franciscans.

  Academic text (2007)

• She was thus interested in a more general statement about the legitimacy of female Carthusian identity and status within the order.

  Academic text (2007)

• I understand that this still takes place with Carthusian nuns who are also Consecrated Virgins.

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• Carthusian nuns were given a stole and maniple at their profession.

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• In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Carthusian order's perpetual abstinence from meat stimulated both defense and intellectual investigation of the community's practice, especially regarding its extension to the sick.

  Academic text (2008)

• Thus Marguerite's challenging task was to interpret Beatrice's life in such a manner as to demonstrate divine approval for her Carthusian sisters and their projects while acknowledging the collapse of their attempted expansion.

  Academic text (2007)

• The Carthusian monks are known for their strict silence and dedication to prayer.

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Carthusian order

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A group of Catholic monks who live mostly alone, keep silence, and pray often

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