Sentences with phrase «for aristocratic women»

Following the tour, we visit the Monasterio de las Descalzados Reales, or «Monastery of the Barefoot Royals», a convent with a history of providing an escape from unhappy betrothals for aristocratic women.

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Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.