Citations:amma

English citations of amma

1728, Claude Fleury, “Book XX”, in The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'Abbé Fleury, volume 2, London: T. Wood, →OCLC, page 879:
Near Antinöus there were twelve monasteries of women; one among the rest governed by the Abbesse or Amma Talida, who had led a monastick life fourscore years.
1799, Alban Butler, “Appendix on the Writings of St Ephrem.”, in The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, 3rd edition, volume 7, Edinburgh: J. Moir, →OCLC, page 108:
The anchoret immediately fell at her feet, crying, Bless me, Amma (i. e. spiritual mother.
1862, “The Virgins of the Early Church”, in The Ecclesiastic and Theologian, volume 24, London: Joseph Masters, →OCLC, page 380:
The Deaconesses seem generally at this time, therefore, to have retired into convents, no doubt at first under obedience to the Amma or Mother Superior, but with a continued recognition of their ecclesiastical rank, which soon led to important results.
2010, Julia Gatta, The Nearness of God, Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, →ISBN, page 95:
Because the authority exercised by Benedictine abbots and abbesses grew out of the charismatic authority of the abbas and ammas of the desert tradition, […]
2021, Mimi Haddad, “History Matters”, in R.W. Pierce, C.L. Westfall, C.L. McKirland, editors, Discovering Biblical Equality‎^[1], 3rd edition, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, →ISBN:
During the late third century, affluent Christians fled city life and its comforts to live in the deserts. […] Many joined the desert movement, led by the ammas and abbas (mothers and fathers).