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A monotonous, silent city, deriving an earthy flavour throughout from its Cathedral crypt, and so abounding in vestiges of monastic graves, that the Cloisterham children grow small salad in the dust of abbots and abbesses, and make dirt-pies of nuns and friars; while every ploughman in its outlying fields renders to once puissant Lord Treasurers, Archbishops, Bishops, and such-like, the attention which the Ogre in the story-book desired to render to his unbidden visitor, and grinds their bones to make his bread.

3 - Best sportsman with disability : Walid Ketila, Abbesses Saidi, Yassine Gharbi, Bilel Aloui, Ismail Bouabid.

Can the authority of female religious superiors, especially the abbesses of territorial abbeys, not be recognized?

But the tradition of the Liber Vitae goes back centuries - the original manuscript was started in the ninth century, possibly on Lindisfarne, and listed the names of kings, dukes, queens and abbesses etc in gold and silver.

Maybe most surprising are the abbesses of Las Huelgas near Burgos in Spain, who acted as extraterritorial bishops until the 1870s.

In the West the tradition of deacon-abbesses was reflected, if not preserved, in Benedictine and Cistercian abbeys of Catalonia, whose abbesses wore the stole at liturgy.

There is another group of women that Woolf has overlooked as well: a brilliant and remarkable group of over-achievers, nuns from the early Middle Ages--a period from the fifth century to the year 1,000 approximately-known as abbesses. An abbess was a title given to a nun who ruled over a convent of religious sisters.

Three abbesses of Port-Royal are Conley's focus, all members of the Arnauld family: two sisters and a niece of theirs.

He is 'surprised that the custom should have been long established in convents of putting abbesses in charge of women just as abbots are set over men, and of binding women by profession to the same rule.