How To Use conventual In A Sentence
- There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Proximity to the parish brought conventuals closer to the everyday concerns of churchgoers.
- He invests Fr. Gérard with the new mozetta of a conventual chaplain ad honorem.
- If the prioress is the first superior, her authority over the convent is similar to that of a conventual prior over his priory; if the first superior is an abbess, the office of the prioress is similar to that of a claustral prior in an abbey. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- The conventual buildings are strung out along a narrow ridge above the water, supported but also overshadowed by solid rock.
- As her conventual discipline requires, she yields to the pain, accepting it as what God is asking of her.
- This official public Mass is called the conventual Mass; if possible it should be a high Mass, but, even if it be not, it always has some of the features of high Mass. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- At the end of the 15th century six houses of Observants were established, three being transfers from Conventual friaries.
- Ely thus became a cathedral -- of the kind that was called conventual cathedrals. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
- Bearing in mind, then, that the term convent has to do with a corporation of men or women united into an organized society, and that the term monastery can strictly be applied only to the buildings -- the _domus_, in which that society has its home -- it will be well at starting that we should endeavour to gain some notion of the general plan of these buildings first, and when we have done that that we should proceed to deal next with the constitution of the society itself and the daily routine of conventual life. The Coming of the Friars
