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At Töss, Adelheit of Lindau taught another lay-sister the antiphon Ave stella matutina, which had been taught to Adelheit by the Virgin Mary herself. 73 In other instances the nuns have a more passive engagement with each other, and only one woman received the knowledge of the community's state of grace.

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In the same monastery the lay-sister Mezzi Sidwibrin was praised because "her mouth overflowed with sweet words."

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When the lay-sister Metze of Adelhausen was deep in her devotion, "she found stars and flowers in her little book."

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The lay-sister Belli of Schalken loved to cook for the sisters, and seems to have looked upon the refectory and the kitchen as her choir.

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Whenever the Weiler-nun Elizabeth of Esslingen heard words being spoken about God, she was stunned into a mystical trance. 140 Similarly, whenever the Adelhausen lay-sister Metzi heard a sermon or any words spoken about God's love, she entered a trance that made it appear as if she was dead. 141

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At Weiler, Adelheid of Weiblingen, who is not identified as either a nun or a lay-sister (although the author does note that she was married for one year before she entered the cloister), had a sickness of her eyes, which did not allow her to learn to read. 37

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And while God's grace was often carried out in these women — in events requiring a passive recipient who ideally had submitted her will to God's — it was often the initial activity of a nun or lay-sister that brought on this gift.

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When the lay-sister Elizabeth joined them, kneeling before one of the church windows that depicted the Last Judgment, she fell into a trance in which she saw Christ in majesty upon his throne flanked by the Apostles, his face shining.

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Physical premotion makes five propositions a matter of attention and occupation to God, which interest only some lay-sister, the sweeper of a convent; while we attribute to Him employment of the most simple and important description — the arrangement of the whole system of the universe.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Abbess, and, attended by the lay-sister, quitted the convent.

The Italian 2004