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Definition of Conventuals
1. conventual [n] - See also: conventual
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conventuals
Literary usage of Conventuals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The less strict principles of the conventuals, permitting the ... Order of St.
Francis " and the right to confirm the choice of a head for the conventuals, ..."
2. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1906)
"... also desired to effect a reunion between the Franciscan conventuals and the
... to the conventuals; for this reason God raised up an adversary against ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... conventuals), Brothers of the Sacred Heart. Women, 1762—Sisters of St.
Benedict, Sisters of Charity. Poor Clares, Sisters of St. Francis, Sisters of the ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Those who adhered rigidly to the original requirements as to seclusion, asceticism,
and drese were now called Observants and tbe more lax conventuals. ..."
5. Rome, Ancient and Modern, and Its Environs: And Its Environs by Jeremiah Donovan (1844)
"... ua.li. i and is annexed to a small college for the education of young
ecclesiastics of 'he Minor conventuals for the mission of the East in general, ..."
6. Thomas Wolsey, Legate and Reformer: Legate and Reformer by Ethelred Luke Taunton (1902)
"... the Friars—conventuals and Observants—Clement VII. i fears them—The Cardinal
Protector of the order—The Friars "desperate beasts "—Wolsey's firmness—The ..."
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