enclosed order

They used to be an enclosed order so the whole place is walled.

The most headstrong sister, Sylvia, became a nun and lives sealed away from the world in an enclosed order.

We are not an enclosed order.

She might have been the headmistress of a certain type of girls' school, now almost extinct, or a Mother Superior in an enclosed order.

The nuns pray around the clock and as it is an enclosed order they never leave the convent except in the event of a medical emergency.

The Carthusians, one of the strictest enclosed orders, were rarely criticized for laxity.

He brought the Poor Clares (enclosed order of nuns) to Cavan in the 1860's.

They are all from the contemplative, strict and enclosed Order of the Carmelite in Darlington and are repeating history.

Mervyn was told that Naughton was in an enclosed order and that the Archbishop would put a stop to his saying Mass.

These characteristics have engendered an 'enclosed order of railwaymen'(Gourvish 1986: 577), with a strong loyalty, discipline and dedication to the railway among all groups of employees.

In November 1618 the duke compelled her to enter an enclosed order of nuns in the convent of Corpus Domini at Ferrara.

It was her fourth to be published, and is set in Imber Court, a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire.

The Sisters of Mount Carmel, who have been in Loughrea since the 17th century, conducted a school there up to 1860 but have since been an enclosed order.

The enclosed orders of women under the Augustinian Rule (as distinct from the active orders of religious women who also do) are usually not visible to the general public except via the internet.

She finally left when she learned that Yoé was planning to join another enclosed order: "the thought of the utter and complete earthly separation that must necessarily take place between us was more than I could bear".

After leaving her enclosed Order, she wrote of her experiences in a series of books which received a widespread audience at the time, giving the first direct account of life in a Religious Order, from a former member, in that period.

They relied, as an enclosed order, upon the extern sisters as their link to the world, and their absolute poverty required them to subsist on what they themselves could obtain through donations, gardening, and begging, the latter being the exclusive responsibility of the extern sisters.