Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from abba, the Syriac form of the Hebrew ab, and means "father". The female equivalent is abbess.
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns.
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary, and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a forge, or a brewery.
The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare, originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church. The Poor Clares were the second Franciscan branch of the order to be established. Founded by Clare of Assisi and Francis of Assisi on Palm Sunday in the year 1212, they were organized after the Order of Friars Minor, and before the Third Order. As of 2011, there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 75 countries throughout the world. They follow several different observances and are organized into federations.
The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched off from the Cistercians. They follow the Rule of Saint Benedict and have communities of both monks and nuns that are known as Trappists and Trappistines, respectively. They are named after La Trappe Abbey, the monastery from which the movement and religious order originated. The movement first began with the reforms that Abbot Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé introduced in 1664, later leading to the creation of Trappist congregations, and eventually the formal constitution as a separate religious order in 1892.
The Camaldolese Hermits of Mount Corona, commonly called Camaldolese, is a monastic order of Pontifical Right for men founded by Saint Romuald. Its name is derived from the Holy Hermitage of Camaldoli, high in the mountains of central Italy, near the city of Arezzo. Its members add the nominal letters E.C.M.C. after their names to indicate their membership in the congregation. Apart from the Roman Catholic monasteries, in recent times ecumenical Christian hermitages with a Camaldolese spirituality have arisen as well.
Jean de Montreuil was a French scholar of the late 14th and early 15th century and a friend of Laurent de Premierfait.
The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, abbreviated VSM and also known as the Visitandines, is a Catholic religious order of Pontifical Right for women. Members of the order are also known as the Salesian Sisters or, more commonly as the Visitation Sisters.
The 3 arrondissements of the Vosges department are:
- Arrondissement of Épinal, with 236 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 204,222 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Neufchâteau, with 175 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 53,669 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, with 96 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 111,750 in 2016.
The arrondissement of Neufchâteau is an arrondissement of France in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region. It has 175 communes. Its population is 53,669 (2016), and its area is 1,817.4 km2 (701.7 sq mi).
Monthureux-le-Sec is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Monthureux-sur-Saône or Monthureux-on-the-Saône is a commune near the Saône River in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Mont-lès-Lamarche is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
The Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as Sisters of the Annunciation or Annonciades, is an enclosed religious order of contemplative nuns founded in honor of the Annunciation in 1501 at Bourges by Joan de Valois, also known as Joan of France, daughter of King Louis XI of France, and wife of Louis, the Duke of Orléans, later King Louis XII of France.
The Canton of Monthureux-sur-Saône is a former French administrative and electoral grouping of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 11 communes, which joined the canton of Darney in 2015. It had 2,447 inhabitants (2012).
The Association of Saône Vosgienne country communes is a former administrative association of rural communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was merged into the new Communauté de communes les Vosges côté Sud-Ouest in January 2017.
The Canton of Vittel is a French administrative and electoral grouping of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Grand Est. The Canton of Vittel has its administrative centre at Vittel.
The Canton of Darney is a rural French administrative and electoral grouping of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Grand Est. The Canton of Darney has its administrative centre at Darney.
The Communauté de communes des Vosges côté Sud-Ouest is an administrative association of rural communes in the Vosges department of eastern France. It was created on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté de communes des Marches de Lorraine, Communauté de communes du Pays de la Saône Vosgienne, Communauté de communes du Pays de Saône et Madon and the commune Grandrupt-de-Bains. It has its administrative offices at Darney. Its area is 693.6 km2, and its population was 11,923 in 2019.
The Communauté de communes Terre d'eau is an administrative association of rural communes in the Vosges department of eastern France. It was created on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté de communes de Bulgnéville entre Xaintois et Bassigny, Communauté de communes de Vittel-Contrexéville and the commune Thuillières. It consists of 45 communes, and has its administrative offices at Bulgnéville. Its area is 415.2 km2, and its population was 17,536 in 2019.