Professed
The majority of Sisters in the Daughters of Verity are professed; having gone through the postulancy and novitiate and having made their "profession" of vows.
Like the simple vows made by postulants becoming novices, these solemn vows are received by the Canoness. This ceremony takes place in the Crystal Cathedral on the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension, the most high holy day of the year. This is a more solemn ceremony than the novice's vows at Sanguinala, although no less joyful. During this ceremony, the former-novices habits are dyed deep blue and the icons of the Order and the Sororitas are affixed to their armor.
While a Sister remains professed for the rest of her life, some will be elected to the rank of Palatine or even Canoness. Those with particular skills and training will become hospitaliers, Machaenices Canonical or other specialists, and those who show appropriate aptitude and devotion will lead corpora as Principes Autem Corpus or train the next generation as Novice Mistresses or Pedagogues Militant.
A very few will be selected by Verity to serve as Seraphim or even the Metatrix. Finally, it is possible she may violate her oaths and become a Repentia to expiate her sin.
Requirements
A professed must have completed her novitiate (usually 2 or 3 years).
Appointment
A Sister progresses from novice to professed when her superiors consider she has advanced sufficiently in piety, devotion and military skill.
Accoutrements & Equipment
A professed Sister's habit is dyed blue with white piping. Her Sororitas battleplate is black with icons of the Sisterhood and Ecclesiarchy affixed to it.
Grounds for Removal/Dismissal
A professed can be stripped of her status because of moral turpitude etc. and become a Repentia.
Professed Habit, Battleplate & Arms
Type
Religious, Military
Alternative Naming
Sister
Equates to
Rifleman (Private, lower NCOs)
Length of Term
The vows a professed takes are for life.
Reports directly to
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