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Resumen
- A wimple is the cloth, generally white, that frames a woman’s face and goes under her chin in folds, while the veil goes over the top of her head.
- From the twelfth century through the fifteenth it was a very common thing for women in Europe to wear, because married women were expected to cover their hair.
- Nuns started out dressing like the modest women around them, and they went on wearing the wimple after fashion had moved on.
- A rule written for three sisters not long after 1200 already told them they could go without wimples if they had warm capes and black veils.
- Vatican II’s decree of 28 October 1965 never mentions the wimple, but it said that any habit that was not simple, modest and suited to the work must be changed.
- We could not find a published list of who still wears one, but some contemplative communities do, including the Benedictines of Mary in Gower, Missouri.
- Orthodox nuns wear a long black veil with an opening for the face, which a convent in Minsk traces to the headdress seen on icons of the Mother of God.
Bibliografía (Haga clic para mostrar)
- Scripture is quoted from the King James Version: Isaiah 3:22. Ruth 3:15 and 1 Corinthians 11:5-6 are referred to.
- John A. Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary: Wimple.
- Wimple, Fashion, Costume, and Culture (Gale, 2004).
- Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary: wimple.
- Wimple, Diccionario bíblico de Easton (1897).
- James Morton, ed. and tr., The Ancren Riwle (Camden Society, 1853), pages 420-421 and glossary.
- Ancrene Riwle y Religious Habit, Nueva Enciclopedia Católica.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Los cuentos de Canterbury, General Prologue, ed. Walter W. Skeat.
- Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey, Sisters, Why Don’t You Wear the Traditional Habit? (2010).
- Concilio Vaticano II, Perfectae Caritatis, 28 October 1965, section 17.
- Código de Derecho Canónico (1983), canon 669.
- Plough Quarterly, The Improbable Revival of the Cloister (March 2025).
- The Catholic Register, ‘Monastic chic’ is always in for religious (2010).
- Catholic World Report, The rich treasure of the monastic life, 18 February 2017.
- Colwich Novitiate, Q & A (2008), the novitiate blog of the Benedictine nuns of Colwich Abbey.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Dominican nun, ecclesiastical figure, Discalced Carmelite nun, ecclesiastical figure y Eleanor of Aquitaine, effigy.
- Reader John Malov, Monastic Clothing in Orthodoxy, The Catalog of Good Deeds, St Elisabeth Convent, Minsk (2022).
- Santa Sede, The Life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1997).
- Picture details from each file’s Wikimedia Commons page.
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