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unusual facts about religious profession



Nimattullah Kassab

Kassab made his religious profession of vows on 14 November 1830, after which he was sent to the Monastery of Saints Cyprian and Justina in Kfifan, in the Batroun District, to pursue higher studies in preparation for ordination, which took place on Christmas Day 1833.


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Jean-Louis Bruguès

He entered the Order of Preachers, made his novitiate in Lille (1968-1969), so he made his first religious profession on 29 September 1969 and was ordained a priest 22 June 1975 in Toulouse.

Mary Joseph Butler

She made her religious profession 4 November 1657, at the English Benedictine convent at Boulogne, at the age of sixteen.

Orderic Vitalis

When Orderic reached the legal age for profession as a monk, his monastic superiors gave him the religious name of Vitalis (after a member of the legendary Theban Legion of Christian martyrs) because they found a difficulty in pronouncing his unusual baptismal name.