As infirmarian he was given none other than the theology professor who had so harshly berated him. From Wordnik.com. [Don Marco] Reference
Later, when it was noted that her sympathetic manner made her a favorite with sick people, she was appointed assistant infirmarian. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
I helped the infirmarian to nurse her, and with God's help we brought her round. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
Sub-Prioress; I assisted with the infirmarian during her agony, and two more deaths quickly followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse] Reference
Doctor and infirmarian had alike praised the girl's quiet courage, and her instinct for doing the right thing. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
The curious practice of blood-letting, looked on as so salutary in ancient times, was carried out by the infirmarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Numerous lesser offices, as those of infirmarian, guest-master, porter, cook, and so on, were divided among the community. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The infirmarian had to tend the sick with affectionate sympathy, and, as far as might be necessary, was excused from regular duties. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Now, on one of the last days of her life, Soeur Therese, scarcely able to speak owing to her great weakness, received through the infirmarian. From Wordnik.com. [Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux] Reference
My nineteenth birthday was saddened by the death of Mother Sub-Prioress; I assisted with the infirmarian during her agony, and two more deaths quickly followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Soul]
Now, on one of the last days of her life, Soeur Thérèse, scarcely able to speak owing to her great weakness, received through the infirmarian a bouquet of flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse] Reference
+ (7) The infirmarian, besides looking after the sick brethren, was also responsible for the quarterly "blood letting" of the monks, a custom almost universal in medieval monasteries. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
For the next ten years she filled the post of infirmarian; her spirit of prayer and humility endeared her to St. Teresa, whose almost inseparable companion and secretary she now became. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
At Rome he fulfilled the humble office of infirmarian in the convent of Ara Coeli; and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
An active life succeeded the quiet of the noviceship; she was infirmarian, refectorian, portress, but her humble virtues shown the more brilliantly; children, strangers, as well as her superiors and her sisters, felt her hidden sanctity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
She had assisted the over-worked infirmarian at a time of unusual sickness -- for there was a good deal of illness among the nuns and pupils that summer -- mostly engendered of the fear lest the pestilence in Holland should reach Flanders. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by the second female infirmarian to the junior medical officer in residence, who in his turn announced to the delegation that an heir had been born, When he had betaken himself to the women's apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once into a strife of tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by the second female infirmarian to the junior medical officer in residence, who in his turn announced to the delegation that an heir had been born, When he had betaken himself to the women’s apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once into a strife of tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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