The other four figures are all nuns who founded religious orders in the 19th Century.
Most survive, almost unseen and unheard, in lay pressure groups, religious orders, theological faculties and missions.
It is a staple of religious orders to fast or adhere to a strict diet.
Religious orders, chiefly nuns and sisters, however run schools and universities as well as health care systems.
The assembled holy men or sadhus represented various religious orders but the dreadlocked, naked Naga sadhus were the most visible.
It handles accounts for the Pope, his cardinals and religious orders, and has only one branch inside the apostolic palace in Rome.
The Roman Catholic church foresees the same fate for several of its religious orders, which ran about 60% of the schools in the system.
More than 100 institutions run by religious orders have been examined and the inquiry is expected to produce specific findings against a number of facilities.
However, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said he said he didn't work closely enough with civil authorities to also identify accused clergy from religious orders.
Her reformist ideas were strongly opposed within the Carmelite order and other religious orders frequently tried to keep her out of cities already bursting with convents and monasteries.
The Vatican Bank, known officially as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), was created during World War II to administer accounts held by religious orders, cardinals, bishops and priests.
The decline of the female religious orders has left many women feeling that they no longer have a central vocation in a church that has always revered femininity in the form of the Virgin Mary.
Mee's grandniece, Jeanne Dauray, testified that a visit to her aunt left her feeling "something was amiss" in the restrictions that Mee lived under compared with other relatives who were members of other religious orders.
Pope John Paul II had wanted a residence inside the Vatican walls to host contemplative religious orders, and over the years several different orders have come for spells of a few years, said Giovanni Maria Vian, editor of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
Is she aware of the fact that my home country of France, just a short century ago, and under a democratic regime, outlawed religious schools and vowed religious orders to replace them with a system of secular public education explicitly designed to undermine the influence of Catholic Church?
You see, no set of religious or societal mandates could have sent me there, nor would any forced marching orders have produced this kind of response in me.
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