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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension.
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Radegund is extensively commemorated as an abbess and a saint in the writings of Venantius Fortunatus and her second biographer Baudonivia.
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Sethrid each in turn served as abbess of the Monastery at Brie.
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Sexburga, entered this monastery after the death of her husband, King Erconbert, and later succeeded her sister as abbess .
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The fourteen-year-old Gertrude was appointed as the abbess and proved herself deserving of the title.
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The saintly abbess spent several fruitful years in that convent, the recipient of extraordinary mystical favors.
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This latter was a secular convent which always had a lady of the Habsburg family as abbess .