Oct 182008
Article
Feminine of the word abbot. Spiritual and temporal superior of a community of twelve or more nuns, signifying that the superior is like a mother to the community. The title is in use among Benedictines, Poor Clares, and certain colleges of canonesses. An abbess as a rule has a right to wear a ring, and bears the crosier as a symbol of her rank, but has not the jurisdiction belonging to abbots.
In art
- Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
- Saint Bridget of Sweden
- Saint Brigid of Ireland
- Saint Burgundofara
- Saint Catherine of Sweden
- Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
- Saint Irmina of Oehren
- Saint Jane of Valois
- Saint Lioba of Bischofsheim
- Saint Odilia of Alsace
- Saint Winifred of Wales
Abbesses Profiled on this Site
- Blessed Alexandrina di Letto
- Blessed Bertha de'Alberti of Cavriglia
- Blessed Hilsindis
- Blessed Maria Teresa Fasce
- Blessed Santucci Terrebotti
- Saint Adalsindis of Bèze
- Saint Adelaide of Guelders
- Saint Adeloga of Kitzingen
- Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
- Saint Agnes of Poitiers
- Saint Agnes of Prague
- Saint Aldegundis
- Saint Aldetrudis
- Saint Almut of Wetter
- Saint Ava of Denain
- Saint Beata of Ribnitz
- Saint Benedicta of Assisi
- Saint Bertha of Avenay
- Saint Bova of Rheims
- Saint Bridget of Sweden
- Saint Burgundofara
- Saint Catherine of Bologna
- Saint Catherine of Sweden
- Saint Doda of Rheims
- Saint Ebbe the Younger
- Saint Edburgh of Winchester
- Saint Eusebia of Hamage
- Saint Gébétrude of Remiremont
- Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
- Saint Godeberta of Noyon
- Saint Gundelindis of Niedermünster
- Saint Harlindis of Arland
- Saint Hilda of Whitby
- Saint Irmina of Oehren
- Saint Jane of Valois
- Saint Juliana of Pavilly
- Saint Kyneburga of Castor
- Saint Kyneswide of Castor
- Saint Lioba of Bischofsheim
- Saint Margaret of Amelia
- Saint Maria Crescentia Hoss
- Saint Melangell
- Saint Mella of Doire-Melle
- Saint Odilia of Alsace
- Saint Opportuna of Montreuil
- Saint Osburga of Coventry
- Saint Regintrudis of Nonnberg
- Saint Richrudis of Marchiennes
- Saint Senorina
- Saint Veronica Giuliani
- Saint Waldrada of Metz
- Saint Winifred of Wales
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