novitiate

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Novitiate phase: Takes two years - one year of canonical novitiate and one year of apostolic novitiate.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2018

We’re here to talk about her role in Novitiate, a drama that premiered earlier this year at Sundance.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2017

A story of unheralded women of a different sort is told in the period convent drama "Novitiate," for which Betts won a special prize for breakthrough director in U.S. dramatic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2017

After a year at the University of Santa Clara, he entered the Sacred Heart Novitiate at Los Gatos, just south of San Francisco.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this he alludes to a plan of his own, that Father Blackfan should have the title of Rector, although he himself had been appointed to the Rectorship of the Novitiate.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John