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-----Original Message----- From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> 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