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• n  one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order

• In 1844 she was accepted by Rome's Sacred Heart nuns as a postulant.
• His hero, Charles Smithson, a young model of Victorian gentility redeemed by intelligence and irony, is an amateur naturalist and a postulant for the new faith of evolution.
• At the end of what is primarily a yearlong spiritual retreat, the postulant and her advisers in the community decide whether she will become a novice and study Catholic theology .

News & Articles

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• Teacher guides students through the sound of musicals
  Shane Heard wants to speak to his nuns in the hallway. High school educators make this request so seldom.As the girls form a circle outside the auditorium door, Dr. Heard gives them a pep talk, cajoling and encouraging. Their problem has not just been the wayward postulant Maria Ranier but a bit of drift in their tone, and that won’t do. They will set up everything that follows.
  Dec. 12, 2013 - St. Joseph News-Press