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From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, December 29, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Canonesses
>The practice of "commending" a monastery to an outsider became common in
>the later Middle Ages. Subiaco is a good example of this practice; see
>Carosi, I monasteri di Subiaco.
>
>Cardinal deacons also were not necessarily in major orders down into the
>19th century.
>
>Tom Izbicki
>
Female monasteries also suffered from the commenda system. In France some
of the great royal monasteries were even commended to protestant princesses
as titular abbesses. It was a regular agendum for reformers.
Jo Ann
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