superioress
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I told the superioress I came here for a week.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Marie Corelli
Among other writers' names we find that of Mother Mary Paul de Blaigni, superioress of the Congregation at Troyes, which was really the cradle of Sister Bourgeois' sublime virtues.
From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous
By a singular institution, he appointed the abbess superioress over the men, who live in a remote monastery, whose superiors she nominates.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
One of the latter is Madame Letitia Doherty, assistant superioress of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Kenwood, Albany, N. Y.; the other is in the Elmhurst Convent of the Sacred Heart, at Providence, R.I.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various
In coming in, and in going away, she always reverently kissed the hand of Agnese de Sellis the superioress, and asked for her blessing.
From The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others by Georgiana Fullerton
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