Abbess Collection

St Hildegard Von Bingen
SAINT HILDEGARD VON BINGEN German religious Founder and abbess of convent of Rupertsberg

Saint Brigid of Ireland
Saint Brigid (Bride, Bridget) of Ireland (or of Kildare, or Mary of the Gael), one of Ireland's patron saints. She is thought to have been a slave who became a Christian nun

St Hilda / Whitby / Reid
SAINT HILDA OF WHITBY Anglo-Saxon abbess, receiving a visit from Caedmon

Saint Brigid Writing
SAINT BRIGID Irish abbess, depicted receiving help with her writing from an angel

Saint Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely
Saint Etheldreda (or Ethelthrith, or Aethelthryth), Abbess of Ely, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia. Seen here with two nuns, fleeing from her husband who wanted to consummate their marriage

Death, grotesquely crowned with flags or feathers, seizes the Abbess by her scapulary.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Saxon saints Modwena and Edmund the King
Saxon Saint Modwena in abbess robes and Saint Edmund the King. Paintings in niches on the side of the nave. Handcoloured etching drawn

Skeleton of Death dragging away an Abbess
Skeleton of Death in wreath dragging away an Abbess with veil, rosary and crozier from her convent as a distraught nun watches

Death attending the Pope as he crowns an Emperor attended by cardinals and bishops. Another skeleton in cardinals robes at right

Louise Adelaide d Orleans, later Abbess of Chelles, 1698-1743. She is depicted as a young woman before becoming a nun, wearing a simple morning dress in back with white fur trim

LOUISE ADELAIDE ORLEANS
LOUISE ADELAIDE DORLEANS mademoiselle de Chartres After she became a nun - as Abbess of Chelles - in 1717. Date: 1698 - 1743

Hilda of Whitby (614-680). Engraving. Colored
Hilda of Whitby (614-680). British religious. Engraving in England, 1880. Colored

Sepulchre of Urraca de Canas (1192-1262) by Ruy Martinez de
Urraca de Canas (1192-1262). Abbes of Monastery of Santa Maria of Canas. Sepulchre of Beata Urraca by Ruy Martinez de Bureba, 13th century. Detail. Nuns at the funeral. Las Canas. La Rioja. Spain

Saint Begge
SAINT BEGGE (Begga) Belgian noblewoman, sister of Gertrude de Nivelles : when her husband died, she became a nun and eventually abbess of Ardennes, near Namur Date: ? - 698

Louise Adelaide Orleans
LOUISE ADELAIDE D ORLEANS mademoiselle de Chartres noble who became Abbess of Chelles after becoming a nun in 1717. Date: 1698 - 1743

Mere Agnes Arnauld
JEANNE-CATHERINE-AGNES ARNAULD Known as Mere Agnes, Jansenist nun, abbess of Saint-Cyr, and later of Port-Royal Date: 1593 - 1672

Mere Angelique Arnauld
JACQUELINE-MARIE-ANGELIQUE ARNAULD Known as Mere Angelique, abbess of Port-Royal, Paris Date: 1591 - 1661

Saint Aldegonde
SAINT ALDEGONDE French abbess of Maubeuge Date: ? - 684

Hrosvitha / Mamz / Deutsche
HROSVITHA or HROSTVITHA Benedictine nun, Abbess of Gundersheim, poet and historian, presents her writings to Archbishop Wilhelm von Mainz Date: circa 935-1000

Prevost dExiles, Antoine-Francois, Abbe (1697-1763). French writer. Engraving

Passionary of the Abbess Cunegunde. 1320. Christ saying goodbye to Saint Joseph. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Library of the Czech Republic

St Hilda / Whitby / Anon Eng
SAINT HILDA OF WHITBY A member of the Deiran royal house, she was among its first converts to Christianity. She became a celebrated abbess at Hartlepool and then Whitby

St Hilda & Caedmon
SAINT HILDA OF WHITBY Anglo-Saxon abbess, receiving a visit from Caedmon

Here Comes the Abbess
Here comes the Abbess, She comes in state, Fi foll de roll de roll day. Why comes the Abbess? why in such state? She comes to seek for a maiden fair

Saint Milburga
SAINT MILBURGA daughter of a chieftain and a saint, she was founding abbess of Wenlock convent in Shropshire, and credited with miracles including levitation

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