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Don't forget...tonight on the History channel too.
NOSTRADOMUS is the program scheduled.
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< http://www.geocities.com/baltimorecarmel/history/1500less.htm
A portion, asyou scroll:
[CHURCH Many Benedictine orders for women founded; they led their own lives & had their own chapters; they preached, heard one another's confessions, & did some manual labor;
Beguinages spring up near Liege & spread from there to Ger & Low Countries; extraordinary surplus of women in 12th & 13th Cents in Low Countries; the movement started as individual holy women set up cells near an abbey, hospital, or leper house so that they could pray & render service; the women promised chastity while they were in the beguinage, but maintained their rights to private property & worked to support themsealves;3.115 beguines under suspicion by a clerical church because since they weren't canonical, they weren't subject to authority;
Social class determined the type of religious life open to women; early nunneries explicitly founded for & ltd to the upper class; rich ladies saw convents as convenient inns when traveling, boarding houses in time of trouble/illness & occasionally as schools for their daughters;3.98 avg # of religious/house = 20; often "superfluous" daughters were placed at a nunnery when young & were educated there & became full members; e.g. Hildegard of Bingen was placed before she was 8 3.100]
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As I am beginning to see, the WTBTS has 'rich Roman' blood within.
sKally, loving her internet like never before klass...oh yeaaaaaaaa
If man was supposedly created in gods image, then.....holy krap...we're all doomed.-sKallyWagger
“What a blessing such integrity keepers are to the congregation!”(5/15/02 WT magazine, pg. 27)