''Annunciade'' ('Annunciation'), and various alternate spellings, is the name of several religious or military orders, including:
Religious orders
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Servites, also known as the ''Servants'' or ''Annunziata'', first religious order of its kind was instituted in 1232 by seven
Florentine merchants
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Annunciates of Lombardy also called the ''Ambrosians'', the ''Sisters of Saint Ambrose'', or the ''Sisters of Saint Marcellina'', were organized at
Pavia
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The city was a major polit ...
in 1408 by young women from Venice and Pavia, under the direction of Father Beccaria, O.S.B., for the care of the sick.
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Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a contemplative order of
Franciscan
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nuns founded at
Bourges
Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...
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Joan of France, after her annulment from
Louis XII, with houses throughout France
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Archconfraternity of the Annunciation was a charitable association founded in 1460 in
Rome
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by
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Torrecrematato provide
doweries to girls from poor families
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Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, also called ''Celestian Annunciades'', is a community of contemplative nuns founded in 1602 in Genoa by Blessed
Maria Vittoria Fornari
Military orders
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Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation was a
military order instituted in 1350 by
Duke
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Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, the first called the ''Order of the True Lover's Knots'' in memory of a bracelet of hair presented to the founder by a lady, but upon the election of
Amadeus VIII to the
pontificate in 1439, it changed its name for that of the ''Annunciation of angel
Gabriel
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See also
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Annunciation
The Annunciation (; ; also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord; ) is, according to the Gospel of Luke, the announcement made by the archangel Gabriel to Ma ...
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Catholic orders and societies
Military orders (monastic society)