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  2. Religious habit - Wikipedia

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    A nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in her cloister Traditional Catholic nuns. The religious habits of Catholic nuns typically consist of the following elements: Tunic: This is the central piece of the habit. It is a loose dress made of serge fabric pleated at the neck and draping to the ground. It can be worn pinned up in the front ...

  3. Nun - Wikipedia

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    Nuns and sisters played a major role in American religion, education, nursing and social work since the early 19th century. [25] In Catholic Europe, convents were heavily endowed over the centuries, and were sponsored by the aristocracy. There were very few rich American Catholics, and no aristocrats. Religious orders were founded by ...

  4. Cornette - Wikipedia

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    A painting of cornette-wearing Sisters of Charity by Armand Gautier (19th-century) Polish nun wearing a white cornette and habit in 1939 A cornette is a piece of female headwear. It is essentially a type of wimple consisting of a large starched piece of white cloth that is folded upward in such a way as to create the resemblance of horns ...

  5. 'It's my happy place': Two Catholic nuns keep teaching ...

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    Aside from being the only nun teaching regularly at Erie Catholic schools, the 73-year-old Fusco is also one of the system's oldest teachers. When the subject is mentioned, Horan interjects, 'Don ...

  6. Redemptoristines - Wikipedia

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    Their traditional habit is deep red, and the scapular and choir-mantle blue; [1] on the scapular there is a coloured medallion of Christ the Redeemer. The 15-decade rosary hangs at the side bearing a medal upon one side of which are embossed the emblems of the Passion of Jesus. The nuns wear two veils: one white and another black, folded back ...

  7. Order of Our Lady of Charity - Wikipedia

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    On the back of the heart is engraved "Live Jesus and Mary", the order's motto. That habit has been discarded. All the houses of this order are independent of each other, and each has its own novitiate, but the mother-house is still at Caen. The nuns wear a white habit and a large silver cross on the breast. To the three ordinary religious vows ...

  8. Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters - Wikipedia

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    Inside the enclosure the nuns wear rose-colored tunics with their habits [1] symbolizing their joy for the Holy Spirit. [2] As a consequence of these habits, the nuns are known colloquially as the "pink sisters". The congregation was founded in 1896 in the Netherlands by Arnold Janssen, a German diocesan priest who had first founded in 1875 the ...

  9. Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul - Wikipedia

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    The traditional habit of the Daughters of Charity was one of the most conspicuous of Catholic Sisters, as it included a large starched cornette on the head. This was the dress of peasant women of the neighborhood of Paris at the date of the foundation, a grey habit with wide sleeves and a long grey apron.