Convent Collection (page 8)

Baby Abandoned / 1841
A mother abandoning her child. She places the baby into a tour and sisters of the convent will receive it on the other side. Date: 1841

Elstow Priory
The ruins of Elstow Priory, Bedfordshire, England, the convent (or nunnery) founded in 1075 by Judith, niece of William the Conqueror. Date: founded 1075

Monastery of St John the Theologian, Patmos
View toward the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (also called Monastery of Saint John the Divine) - a Greek Orthodox monastery founded in 1088 at Chora on the island of Patmos, Greece

Mount Athos, Greece - Russian Convent
Mount Athos, Greece - The Russian Convent Date: circa 1910s

Russian Convent
Very early picture postacrd depicting a Russian Convent Date: circa 1898

Russian Convent Buildings
Early picture postcard of a set of Russian Convent Buildings Date: circa 1898

Nun at the Window
A young nun looks through her window and contemplates life outside the convent walls : did she make the right choice, she asks herself... Date: early 19th century

Italy - Cremona - Collegio Convitto M. G. Vida. Marco Girolamo Vida (or Marcus Hieronymus Vida) (1485? - 1566) was an Italian humanist, bishop and poet

Pokrov Monastery, Suzdal, Russia
View of the Pokrov Monastery, or Convent of the Intercession, in Suzdal, Russia. It was founded in 1364, and includes hotel accommodation

Baroque altar, Landsberg, Bavaria, Germany
View of the baroque altar in the Dominican Convent Church in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. The church was built in 1720

Assisi - Santa Maria delle Carceri Convent and Chapel
St. Francis and his disciples retired here for their prayers and meditations. In 1400 St. Bernardine of Siena erected a small convent and the church of S

Trabzon - Armenian Church and Convent
The Armenian Church and Convent - Kaimakli - at Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province

Trabzon, Turkey - Monastery of Soumela
Monasteries of Soumela and St. George at Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province

Grand Princess Elizaveta Feodorovna as a nun
Grand Princess Elizaveta Feodorova (Grand Duchess Sergei), formerly Princess Elisabeth or Ella or Hesse Darmstadt, dressed as a nun

Charles VI at Bapaume
Charles VI arrives at Bapaume, in the course of the civil war with Burgundy : he lodges at a convent

Garibaldis Hq
Garibaldis headquarters in the convent of San Silvestri, Rome

Child Left at Convent
An inconvenient child is left at a convent door

Club Des Jacobins
Originally a group of Breton deputies, the Jacobins take their name from their HQ in an old convent : with some half million members, they hold uncompromising views

Club Des Feuillants
A body of moderates splitting from the Jacobins to pursue a less extremist course, the Feuillants make their home in an old convent near the Tuileries (now destroyed)

Russian Orthodox Priest
The Russian Orthodox dean of Uspenksy Convent

Francesco and Birds
Francesco d Assisi preaches to the birds. Below, the convent and basilica at Assisi

Romance and Reality 1869
Convent Life - Romance and Reality

Arms in Bulgaria
Arms are discovered in a Greek convent at Bagna in eastern Rumelia, a region vainly coveted by Russia : the priests have no idea how they could have got there

Hysterical French Nun
In 17th century France, a hysterical nun breaks loose from her bonds and terrifies the convent with her insistence that she is possessed by demons

Refugees from Naples, taken by Garibaldis forces, seek refuge in Rome, where they are housed in the Sistine convent

Ecuador Quito
General view of the city, viewed from the convent of San Juan, just previous to the recent earthquake

Loudun / Soeur Claire 2
Despite being exorcised, Claire de Sazilly, one of the afflicted nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule, refuses to admit that she is possessed by the demon

Moscow in 1813
Distant view of the city from the convent of Spasna Novoi on the Moskva river. The skyline has changed somewhat since 1803

FLORENCE / VAL D EMA 1904
The Cistercian convent of the Val d Ema, beyond the Porta Romana

China / Macao / Convent 1850
The Jesuit convent

Teresa at Prayer
She kneels in prayer before the altar of the Convent Chapel

Loudun / Soeur Claire
Claire de Sazilly, one of the afflicted nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule, is exorcised in the presence of the duc d Orleans Date: 20 June 1633

Loudun - Grandier Accuse
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule accuse Urbain Grandier of throwing a bewitched rose-sprig into their garden, causing them to be victims of his lust

Loudun - Nuns Exorcised
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule are exorcised to rid them of the demons by which they are possessed

Greece / Daphni Convent
Daphni: the convent

Miracle / Clares Bread
When Saint Clare of Assisi, Italy, blesses the convent bread before eating, a cross miraculously appears on the rolls, like hot cross buns

Opera / Verdi / Trovatore
IL TROVATORE from Act 2, Scene 5 Di Lunas abduction of Leonora from the convent to the castle of Castellor

Lyon / Cordeliers Convent
The convent of Cordeliers in Lyon

Lorgues / Rabida Convent
Columbus retires to the convent of La Rabida

Lorgues / La Rabida
The convent of La Rabida where Christopher Columbus lodged

A Nun Makes a Bolt
A French girl, incarcerated against her will in a convent at Marseille, makes a dramatic escape by clambering over a wall, where passers-by rush to her aid with a ladder

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

Isabelle De France
ISABELLE DE FRANCE daughter of Louis VIII, sister of Louis IX, refused a royal marriage, became a nun, founded convent of Clarisses, was made a saint

Convent Sinai Egypt
The Convent of Saint Catherine in the Sinai Desert, where the monks have created their own oasis in the walled garden

Belgian Nuns Gardening
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, digging and hoeing their garden vegetable patch

Belgian Nuns
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, with hoes and spades and other gardening tools over their shoulders

Lestelle-Betharram
The church and convent of Lestelle-Betharram & Lestelle Bridge in the Pyrenees. A former place of pilgrimage

Baby Abandoned / 1860
A mother abandoning her child at a convent baby wheel

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