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).