noviciate

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When De la Salle arrived there he left behind him in Rheims a principal house containing sixteen Brothers, and a training college for country schoolmasters, containing thirty men, besides fifteen lads in their noviciate.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

Every young Jesuit in Europe was first trained, during two full years of noviciate, to the exact practice of religious virtues.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

They entered on their duties after a noviciate of nine months, and were called Dames de Saint Louis.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

After them he painted a Piet�, coloured in fresco, which is very beautiful, in a niche at the head of a staircase in the noviciate of the same convent.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto by De Vere, Gaston du C.

His noviciate is nearly expired; tomorrow he will pronounce his vows.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)