Female Religious
Women's religious communities — their establishment, governance, episcopal visitation, and reform. Basil noted that women in the East "have happily attained an equal rule of life"; Van der Burch visited and reformed women's monasteries throughout the archdioceses of Mechlin and Ghent.
Preliminaries
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Basil noted that women in Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, "emulating the same pursuit, have happily attained an equal rule of life."
"even women, emulating the same pursuit, have happily attained an equal rule of life"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Basil taught the people "to establish religious houses for virgins."
"to establish religious houses for virgins"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch visited, reformed, and directed women's monasteries throughout the archdiocese of Mechlin and diocese of Ghent.
"The monasteries of women throughout the whole archdiocese of Mechlin in former times, and now in the diocese of Ghent, have been so frequently visited, reformed, built up, and directed by you with holy ordinances"