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Sentence Examples Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece. His lovely book tells the tale of Brother Antoine, a young Canadian who enters a Trappist monastery in the 1970s to the dismay of his family. The convent cloister of the Minorite monastery, originating from the year about 1500, is of an oblong ground plan. The Minorite monastery with the Church of Corpus Christi and Annunciation of the Virgin was founded in 1350 by the Rozmberks. Monks were brought to the abbey from Saint Giles, thus it operated as a succursal church of the French monastery. Some of the staff in the grand Thai monastery have been living there for nearly a decade and speak Hindi. His pre-tournament preparation had included ensconcing himself in a Buddhist monastery for a week. He pointed out the scale model of the new monastery and it will surely be a beautiful building when it is completed. According to the regional police directorate in Blagoevgrad, the argument about the monastery had started last Easter. He chose Lindisfarne as his base and established a church and monastery here. In the middle of the 19th century abbot of the monastery was a monk named Genadii. He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there. In 1752 he became a monk at the monastery of the Escorial, and a year later was admitted to holy orders. The church and monastic buildings on Lindisfarne today date from the Norman period when a Benedictine monastery was established on the island. On the right side of the pyramid was the monastery, with its abbot and his subordinate monks. The monastery, that is to say, is a place of continual repentance, of constantly renewed conversion. Life at the monastery is simple, with a handful of monks beginning each day with prayers and meditation. It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege. One example of this is in his sermon on St. Hilda, the seventh-century abbess who ruled over a double monastery of men and women at Whitby. He gained greater freedom in 1867 when the monastery was made an abbey and he was appointed abbot as well as a local bishop. Show More Sentences Between ages of ten and sixteen, most young Burmese men and some young women become Buddhist novices and go to live in a monastery. Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey. He repaired the old monastery church and adorned it with murals painted in the fresco technique typical of the time. At that moment the deep boom of the great brass bell reverberated through the monastery. Iraqi crowds are pictured outside an ancient Chaldean monastery in the Baghdad suburb of Al Doura on Sunday. He became a canon of the Order of St Augustine at the monastery of Holywood in Nithsdale. With a commanding view of the surrounding area, the monastery has many treasures. The initiate is dressed in finery and escorted with pomp to the monastery, where his head and eyebrows are shaved. A week later as the New Year was ushered in, another bomb was discovered at St George's monastery in Mosul. The monastery of St. Naum is situated at the southern end of the lake, in the striking natural environment. A monastery is a more or less self-contained settlement constructed to house a community of monks or canons. The town was formerly a Roman military installation and a Benedictine monastery was founded there in the ninth century. Francis paid a call on his predecessor at a monastery on the Vatican's grounds to offer Christmas greetings. Approaching the monastery on a Friday evening, we turned south instead of north and arrived too late for vespers. On his return, her husband, though saddened, quickly accepts her decision and endows her with his vill of Chich for a monastery. I've even heard that some Baptists have started a Benedictine-style monastery. Pilgrims returning from the monastery at Mount Melleray have been known to stop and say a decade of the rosary for the departed. Two nuns live in the monastery nowadays, who, always willingly and kind-heartedly, open the heavy door to visitors and offer them cool water. Senior monks at each monastery perform other ceremonies leading followers in worship and prayer. As a hymnographer St Theophanes belongs to the tradition of the monastery of Mar Sabbas, near Bethlehem. Show More Sentences On instinct, Kevin hurtled over fallen rocks and I-beams in the monastery main hall until he was at Phoenix's side. He painted it in the year of our Lord 1413, in the month of February, during the time of Matthew's priorate of this monastery. She belonged to a Benedictine monastery in Gundersheim which was a center of intellectual and religious activity. Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery. A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone. This building was originally the gatehouse for Kirkstall Abbey, an important Cistercian monastery. An unbroken list of masters of the almonry school exists dating from the fourteenth century until 1538 when the monastery was dissolved. In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha. One year after the founding of the monastery of the Cave, Sabas established another cenobium, later named after its first abbot, John Scholarius. Through viticultural enterprise, the monastery became extremely powerful, owning a fleet of ships which sailed the Rhine. Since the accommodation for visitors on Mount Athos is more than basic, we had to share one and the same cell in the monastery of Philotheu. The cycle of 54 pictures for the Carthusian monastery of El Paular, his largest commission, attests to his prolific imagination. Ten months of isolation because of foot and mouth has brought the country's best preserved Carthusian monastery closer to nature. The original chartreuse is Chartreuse Mountain, after which came the name La Grande Chartreuse, which was the Carthusian monastery in Grenoble. Religious pilgrims are trampling the grounds of the El Carmen monastery in the Sierra del Nixcongo Mountains near Mexico City. Now she lives alone in an apartment with her four cats, a solitude that has led her to consider moving to a monastery. He then found job as a gardener in a Capuchin monastery, a job he held for the rest of his life. Banqueting rooms and a private chapel will be available for hire, allowing the monastery to host weddings and family occasions once again. Mont-Cornillon was the site of a leprosarium and monastery under the Rule of Saint Augustine, just outside the city walls of Liege. The monastery functioned as a leprosarium and Juliana served there as a canoness until ousted during a conflict with townspeople. Show More Sentences Familiars actually dwelling in a monastery may receive their Easter Communion in the church or chapel of the monastery. At Mellifont we have the earliest remains of a claustral planned monastery in Ireland. Billy's lawyer alleges that Iris has a drink problem, while her lawyer claims that he had spent three weeks in a monastery drying out. During the sixth century, Skellig monks set up the monastery in honour of the archangel Michael, patron of high places. Another center of Shan life is the Buddhist monastery, where many occasions are celebrated. The religiously minded, home-schooled Idahoan also spent time at a Buddhist monastery and tried to join the French foreign legion. Bede was offered as an oblate to the monastery of Wearmouth when he was only seven years old and spent his whole life as a monk. We reached the monastery by mid-morning, and the same rugged fellow who had been good enough to carry my little pack knocked heavily on the door. She was only a few nights from the monastery when she pitched camp in a desolate swamp. These classes are conducted in the monastery and broadcast on loudspeakers out to the public. A slype is the name for a covered passage from a church or monastery cloister. In 1848 he took holy orders in the Augustinian monastery where he also became choirmaster. Before joining the monastery, he studied music in Germany and released a CD of a choral work he had composed. Frequently visited by princes and high ecclesiastics, the monastery soon became famous. Humour and a sense of the ridiculous form the microscopic thread that keeps us out of the madhouse, monastery, convent, or whatever. In the centre is a minuscule island housing a former monastery which dates back to the ninth century. Once a year I spend a weekend at a Buddhist monastery populated by a community of monks and nuns. Nevertheless, it is customary for newlyweds to attend the local monastery later for a blessing and a simple ceremony in which texts are chanted. So the truth lover brought them back to the monastery at the end of the market day. The player travels south through the Baltic region, Poland and Yugoslavia to Greece, where the weapon factory is located in an old monastery. Show More Sentences An extraordinary letter was written by the prior of the monastery two years before his martyrdom. The curved style of the walls suggest that this earlier structure dates from the 8th century and could be the remains of a Pictish monastery. As long as you follow the rules of the monastery then they will respect you as a good monk. At the beginning of the seventh century St. Gobban founded a monastery at Leighlin Bridge. The man presumed to be Richard was buried in secret at a monastery in Hertfordshire and his remains moved to Westminster. Bodin studied in his hometown and while still young, took the habit of the Carmelites and lived in the monastery of Notre-Dames-des-Carmes. Poccetti first enters the records of the Servite monastery as early as 1588, as one of their tenants. Perhaps the best-designed experiment I've seen took place in a small woodland chapel at a Benedictine monastery in Massachusetts. For us Carmelites in Mexico, this convent, this monastery, is like the heart of our whole institution. Besides visiting a graveyard at night the art students went to chapels, a monastery and other buildings at the historic townsite. She attempted in these works to capture the rhythmic, temporal chants of the Ladakh monastery. Two years ago he moved from Bucharest to a Transylvanian village to renovate the monastery. Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even. Away from the town, the walk to the monastery takes one through groves of olives and almonds, and vineyards bearing the sign of Torres, the dominant local wine producer. On his return he founded the monastery of St Peter at the mouth of the river Wear, importing workmen to build a church of stone and to glaze the windows. The Franciscan monastery library was hit by guided missiles. Set in a monastery where Pellegrina lies dying late in the story, the first scene shows Marcus telling her story to Lincoln Forsner and others off-screen. An ancient Irish monastery and a fee-paying Leinster boarding school have been included in a list of the world's 100 most endangered heritage sites. The entrance to the monastery is on the eastern side of the first level and at the far end of the entrance hall, behind a stonewall, part of which still exists, was the crypt. Give to a convent or monastery that's doing what it's called to do. Show More Sentences Today, though he loves solitude, he also enjoys interacting daily with the many saints, sages, swamis, scholars and writers who visit the monastery. In 1566 Pope Pius V requested that Danti use his architect's skills to design Santa Croce, the church of the Dominican monastery at Bosco Marengo near Alessandria. That monastery he talks about shouldn't expect him any time soon. You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey. If we honestly believed that any of this stuff was true then most of us would have been so disappointed by now that we'd have joined a monastery and taken a vow of celibacy. The chapter house of a monastery, cathedral, or collegiate foundation was second only to the church in importance, and was usually built in close proximity to it. A Spaniard by birth, Victor Serna left home shy of his 14th birthday and entered the monastery to become a Marist brother. When a platoon of American troops in WWII were making their way across Europe, they came across a bombed-out monastery with these words graffitied on its basement wall. Danti's design of the monastery cloisters was particularly fine. Then there's Brother Mesquite from the monastery that ranches bison, and a nice joke about a cowboy who wears clothes all made of brown paper, who gets hanged for rustling. In 1183, Rory O'Connor, High King of Ireland, retired to a monastery, leaving control of the kingdom in the hands of Hugh de Lacy, Henry's justiciary. He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a contemplative and spend the rest of his life in the monastery. The earliest buildings, dating from the 19th century, feature uneven wooden floors and small, deep-set windows that create the air of a monastery refectory. It was one of the strongest natural defensive positions in military history, with the monastery, like some great all-seeing eye, peering down on everything. When he emerged from the Zen monastery on Mount Baldy, his enlightenment was followed with an all too worldly disaster. He told delegates that beekeeping in Ireland has long been associated with monastic settlements and that one early monastery was named after an apiary. In the meantime, flannery has reportedly been sent to a monastery for six weeks of prayer and contemplation. I cooked alone, ate alone, and walked alone four times a day up the steep hill to the monastery to participate in the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours. Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery. In 2008, his monastery was in desperate need of funds and Vreeland decided to lend a hand with his first photography exhibition. Show More Sentences A pub, a few houses, a fish restaurant, and the ruins of a Greyfriars monastery are pretty much all that remains of Dunwich, which was once a major port. Thanks to the activities of two Athonite monks, we are in a position to glean a considerable amount of valuable information on the pilgrims who visited the monastery. It was only when you passed underneath the machicolation of the nearest tower that you caught your first glimpse of the monastery that lay hidden in the depth of the gorge. The last news item on the car radio as we turned off the Elgin road was about plans to turn the former monastery at Fort Augustus into a theme park. Like any building, there's more to a monastery than meets the eye. As the group advanced forward the first explosion shook the monastery. Father Behrens was a diocesan priest in Newark, New Jersey, prior to his decision to enter the Trappist monastery in Conyers, Georgia, where he now lives and writes. In the decade after the war, he joined a Trappist monastery, but was forced to leave after contracting tuberculosis. Towering over the remote monastery at Masham there was even a triumphal column celebrating not the victories of kings but of Christ and his saints. These days the monastery and motels house people who had to leave Sloviansk. But rather than hiding away in a dark monastery to repent, Cardinal Law is instead an exalted member of Vatican inner circles. Similarly, in eastern Europe and the Baltic, crusaders constructed a range of fortresses from wooden blockhouses to the great monastery castles of the military orders. Located about 30 km from Charang village, this monastery was approachable via a small, steep and adventurous path after the motorable road finished. He had commenced work when a gust of wind blew his cloak, which he had left upon a rock, across the valley and it landed where the monastery was later built. She became great friends with several members of the Cowley Fathers, and gave munificently towards the establishment of their monastery in Cambridge. In 2010, nuns who were visiting the monastery had taken pictures of the waterfall just past where Escobar's bunker had been. In 1140, after the mysterious disappearance of a Shrewsbury clerk, the young Meriet was brought by his unloving father to a Benedictine monastery. Pope Francis urged the local parish to open up a closed monastery on the island to house the overflow. It seems in the 9th century there was a Buddhist monastery in the spot where the Santi stupa, built in 1972 by the Kalinga Nippon Buddha Sangha, is now situated. An eighth-century Lombard nobleman in Tuscany even converted his house into a monastery and took his vows, apparently to avoid having to fight the Franks. Show More Sentences The central focus of the current exhibition in Cleveland is the foundation of the Carthusian monastery of Champmol and the ducal tombs that once occupied its choir. Galileo had a mixed education, starting at a monastery school in Vallombrosa where he entered the order as a novice, against the wishes of his father. Occasionally they may list benefactors to the monastery, specifying their particular contribution to work on the fabric, or record a wage or corrody to a building craftsman. The emphasis on nodes which I encountered in the monastery links back to my Saturn return, in a way, since the dispositor of my North Node is Saturn. After saying for a year that he would not resign, he finally stepped down and cloistered himself for a while in a monastery until his appointment in Rome. If you are feeling lazy, and the prospect of climbing the flight of 800 steps to the monastery is too daunting, you can always choose to take a donkey. With insane fury, the giant men broke down the doors of the monastery. The first evidence that the dogs were in use at the monastery is two paintings dating to 1690 by Salvatore Rosa. Honorius III., in 1220, built or rebuilt a monastery attiguous to the church, of which no trace now remains. The monastery where Ottavio is later sent becomes a metaphor of the motherless, femaleless family to which the boy now belongs. Scholars travelled from one monastery to another in search of the texts they wished to study. Bede's monastery had access to an impressive library which included works by Eusebius, Orosius, and many others. At the age of seven, Bede was sent to the monastery of Monkwearmouth by his family to be educated by Benedict Biscop and later by Ceolfrith. Monkwearmouth's sister monastery at Jarrow was founded by Ceolfrith in 682, and Bede probably transferred to Jarrow with Ceolfrith that year. Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery was a renowned centre of learning. He also drew on Josephus's Antiquities, and the works of Cassiodorus, and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery. This controversial figure was given land by King Wulfhere to build a monastery at Lichfield. He later abdicated in favour of his brother Ecgric and retired to a monastery. Eventually, Hunald retired to a monastery, leaving both the kingdom and the continuing conflict to Waifer, or Guaifer. While there, he feigned stomach cramps and in the confusion fled into a monastery. Show More Sentences Various construction materials were taken from the ruin to build this monastery. Many once large and international communities have been reduced to a single convent or monastery with memberships of elderly men or women. The community grew and developed into a monastery until it was dissolved by Henry VIII, and St Eanswythe's remains disappeared. The exceptional preservation is due to the fact the site, Priory Park, belonged to a monastery and has never been built upon since Roman times. Later, Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was an abbot of the monastery, and then Bishop of Lindisfarne. In the 10th century, Dunstan brought Athelwold to Glastonbury, where the two of them set up a monastery on Benedictine lines. When these students became adults, they would leave the monastery to live out their lives. Eventually, these people would retire back to secure community provided by the monastery and stay until their death. In 595, Gregory chose Augustine, prior of Gregory's own monastery of St Andrew in Rome, to head the mission to Kent. Charles retired to the monastery of Yuste in Extremadura but continued to correspond widely and kept an interest in the situation of the empire. Nicholas went to Paris and later became a canon regular of the cloister of St Rufus monastery near Arles. At the age of fifteen, Anselm desired to enter a monastery but, failing to obtain his father's consent, he was refused by the abbot. He appears to have had military service but at some point joined the very new monastery at Melrose, under the prior Boisil. When Alchfrith, king of Deira, founded a new monastery at Ripon, Cuthbert became its praepositus hospitum or guest master under Eata. When Wilfrid was given the monastery, Eata and Cuthbert returned to Melrose. Illness struck the monastery in 664 and while Cuthbert recovered, the prior died and Cuthbert was made prior in his place. Denied episcopal office, Wilfrid spent the three years from 665 to 668 as abbot of the monastery at Ripon. Wilfrid spent the next nine years building churches, including at the monastery at Hexham, and attending to diocesan business. The monastery he founded grew and helped found churches and other religious institutions throughout the area. Between 1503 and 1504 More lived near the Carthusian monastery outside the walls of London and joined in the monks' spiritual exercises. Show More Sentences Bodmin monastery became one of the wealthiest Cornish foundations by the eleventh century. It was refounded by Henry VIII in 1541 during the English Reformation when the monastery in Rochester was dissolved. The monastery later became the Oxenham Arms hotel, at South Zeal, and the standing stone remains in place in the ancient snug bar at the hotel. About 529 Benedict of Nursia established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero. Westminster Abbey was a Benedictine monastery that became a cathedral after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but only for ten years. At the greatest possible distance from the church, beyond the precinct of the monastery, was the eleemosynary department. They built a monastery at Fors, but some years later the monks moved to Jervaulx in Lower Wensleydale. Eadfrith and Ethelwald were both bishops at the monastery of Lindisfarne where the manuscript was produced. The Lindisfarne Gospels manuscript was produced in a scriptorium in the monastery of Lindisfarne. Byron sent Giraud to school at a monastery in Malta and bequeathed him a sizeable sum of seven thousand pounds sterling. After leaving Harrow, Cumberbatch took a gap year to volunteer as an English teacher at a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India. In the Early Middle Ages, monastery libraries developed, such as the important one at the Abbey of Montecassino in Italy. According to tradition, he was a follower of Saint Patrick and founded a monastery at Maghera, a few miles north of the mountain. Hermits are usually associated with a larger monastery but live in seclusion some distance from the main compound. Their local monastery will see to their physical needs, supplying them with simple foods while disturbing them as little as possible. Should a married priest die, it is normal that his wife will retire to a monastery once their children are out of the house. He lived quietly on his estates, and died at the monastery of Cong in 1198 and was buried at Clonmacnoise. These include materials from an annal kept at the monastery of Iona in Scotland. Ninian established a church or monastery at Whithorn, Wigtownshire, which remained an important place of pilgrimage until the Reformation. Many historians have argued that the monastery or Priory was founded specifically in 1114 by Alexander I of Scotland. Show More Sentences Monks were to be sent to university, and theologians appointed for each monastery, college and cathedral. The Armagnacs then attacked and captured an English fortress built around a monastery called Les Augustins. In another story, Columba instructed a particular monk to go the monastery on Tiree and do penance for seven years. This latter statue was sculpted by Lama Thubten Kunsal from Tashi Gonsar Gong monastery in Derge, East Tibet. Eskdalemuir is probably best known for the Eskdalemuir Observatory and for the Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery. In the community is the Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery, which incorporates a former hunting lodge called Johnstone House. Seventeen years later, Saint Andrew appeared to her in a dream, telling her to pray for her son's return at the monastery. Both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities consider the monastery a holy place. In 940 Constantine III abdicated and took the position of abbot of the monastery of St Andrews. The buildings were initially interpreted as a monastery, but later as a princely stronghold and trading post. Slightly later the monastery of Strata Florida was leased by the association so that it could be safeguarded and displayed to the public. Gildas was written by an unnamed monk at the monastery which Gildas founded in Rhuys, Brittany in the 9th century. He was eventually sought out by those who wished to study under him, and was entreated to establish a monastery in Brittany. The Greek community in Alexandria lived around the Church and monastery of Agios Savvas. William founded a monastery at the site of the battle, the high altar of the abbey church supposedly placed at the spot where Harold died. A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. The bishop, in effect, took the place of the abbot, and the monastery itself was headed by a prior. Before the English built the town of Conwy, Aberconwy Abbey, the site was occupied by a Cistercian monastery favoured by the Welsh princes. He is credited with having sponsored Saint Cadfan's monastery on Bardsey Island, which became a major centre of pilgrimage during medieval times. St David's Cathedral stands on the site of the monastery he founded in the Glyn Rhosyn valley of Pembrokeshire. Show More Sentences He is recognised as bishop of Menevia in Wales who governed his monastery following the example of the Eastern Fathers. He may have been a highly educated cleric there, or possibly a friar from a nearby monastery at Woodkirk, four miles north of Wakefield. Fulda monastery was founded in eastern Austrasia in the final decade of the Merovingian period. In addition to its 259 defenders, over 700 women and children had taken refuge in the monastery. Monks were instrumental in this activity, among others those of the monastery of Aduard. There is evidence of an early Culdee monastery at the Birrier in the west of Yell, near West Sandwick. As early as Roman times, it was introduced into more northerly regions, and later was also cultivated in monastery gardens by monks. Saint Fintan founded a monastery at Clonenagh, Ireland, in the sixth century and it had a spring beside it. Columba and twelve companions went into exile on Iona and founded a monastery there. On leaving him, Columba entered the monastery of Clonard, governed at that time by Finnian, noted for sanctity and learning. There is even an Orthodox Church monastery dedicated to the saint in the Massachusetts town of Southbridge. He also invaded Kent, in 686, and may have founded a monastery at Hoo, northeast of Rochester, between the Medway and the Thames. Gregory left Constantinople for Rome in 585, returning to his monastery on the Caelian Hill. A monastery was built there in the next years, becoming one of the most important in the German realm for a short time. This is the dialect of the monastery of Fulda, and specifically of the Old High German Tatian. Old Romanian folk songs recount a white monastery on a white island with nine priests. It continues to Engelhartszell, with the only Trappist monastery in Austria. In 746, however, the Frankish armies were still, as Carloman was preparing to retire from politics and enter the monastery of Mount Soratte. The family maintained dominance over the monastery by appointing family members as abbots. Lupus, fearing Charles, turned Hunald over in exchange for peace, and was put in a monastery. Show More Sentences Boris I, who had previously retired to a monastery, led a rebellion against his son and defeated him. In 1410, he returned to Tsurphu where he had his monastery rebuilt following severe damage from an earthquake. Inside most of the monastery grounds there had been a separate garden designated for the plants that were needed for the treatment of the sick. Hildegard was born in 1098 and at the age of fourteen she entered the double monastery of Dissibodenberg. Traveling to Morocco, he established a military monastery or ribat where he trained a highly motivated and disciplined fighting force. Amerigo Vespucci was educated by his uncle, Fra Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar of the monastery of San Marco in Florence. The Dutch next attacked Pampanga, where they captured the fortified monastery, taking prisoners and executing almost 200 Filipino defenders. Dominic monastery on the ruins of the House of the Sun and a nunnery where the House of the Virgins of the Sun was stood. During this period Mercator was in contact with the Franciscan monk Monachus who lived in the monastery of Mechelen. Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three months intended to make his profession. The island includes a fortress, botanical garden, monastery and naturist beach. The church retains its original function and Plateresque facade, but the monastery area has been converted into a museum. Most of the state was evangelized by the Franciscans, who founded a hospice in the city in 1558 and by 1567 had built a large monastery. While still a layman, he spent six months in Canada at a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. Pilar monastery which holds novenas of Venerable Padre Agnelo Gustavo de Souza from 10 November to 20 November yearly. The Buddha spent the next three seasons at Veluvana Bamboo Grove monastery in Rajagaha, the capital of Magadha. Waverley Abbey near Farnham, founded in 1128, was the first Cistercian monastery in England. There are also some silver dishes and flagons, probably the monastery treasure mentioned in an old chronicle of St Coloumbs Abbey in Yorkshire. Today the modern road for through traffic has been routed around the outside of the monastery buildings to allow some integrity of the grounds. One condition of the sale is that they be brought to the monastery for the summer. Show More Sentences The monastery currently houses a handful of monks on a permanent basis and serves as a spiritual center for others on retreat. For instance, he obtained official permission to avail himself of the library belonging to the defunct monastery of Bury St Edmunds. I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom. A cloister is the part of the monastery that only those who have taken vows may enter. The Ven. U Warthawa knelt down in the temple of the monastery to worship before the image of the Buddha. Animists could find the Bhutanese concept of God, Konchhoksum, in the monastery. In 1997 the monastery was reconsecrated, and the feast of St Shenoute is celebrated by hundreds of thousands of Copts annually. He said that the newly discovered monastery built in Diaper and Semi ashlar masonry lay in Mud Mortar. When a new nun, arrives at the monastery, he tries to win her adoration as well, all while attempting to prove that being a Luchador isn't a sin. The monastery has some outstanding rooms, the refectory and calefactory to mention two. It neighbored a Theravadin Buddhist monastery, and was close to a Chinese Mahayana foundation in Ukiah. Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow. San Zuan on Torcello was a special monastery for the convertite, that is, those women who had turned away from a life of prostitution. Earl Roger was not quite so openhanded when it came to endowing his new monastery with lands. Perched high on the Durpin Hills, with a fantastic view, Zong Dog Palri Fo Brang Gompa is a prominent Buddhist monastery near Kalimpong. About 30km south of Plovdiv, Bachkovo monastery is Bulgaria's second-largest, with 11th-century Byzantine origins. The head of the monastery, the abbot or hegumen, would act as spiritual director for the monks. The cells of the monastery exteriorly and interiorly plastered with mud Mortar, the first evidence in the Taxila Valley. At Gurgi, another monastery was erected by Prashantashiva and images of Uma, Uma-Maheshvara, Kartikeya, Ganapati and Sarasvati were installed. Ivan Ziaiyk was a Redemptorist hegumen of the monastery in Ternopil. Show More Sentences It kicked off at Drepung Monastery, the largest monastery of Tibetan Buddhism's Gelug Sect, where a 40-meter-long thangka painting of the Buddha was exhibited. Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt. In 685, St Cuthbert, visiting the Queen of Northumbria in her sister's monastery at Carlisle, was taken to see the city walls and a marvellously constructed Roman fountain. These and other artifacts are stored in the monastery museum. When they locate a victim he is offered the wine to keep him alive while the other dog runs back to the monastery to lead the monks who transport the lost back. The monastery is surrounded by a huge wall and topped by a stone tower. The first concern of the founder of the current monastery was to clear the region of bandits and keep the pass safe for travellers, the role of rescuers developing naturally. This dialect was spoken mostly in the south and west around the important monastery at Winchester, which was also the capital city of the Saxon kings. The monastery became a center from which missionaries would be trained and then sent forth and its size and battlements helped to protect it from Chichimeca attacks. Kiy Island in Onega Bay is significant due to a historic monastery. The ability for these texts to spread from one monastery or school in adjoining regions created a rapid diffusion of medical texts throughout western Europe. The descriptions are nothing without their practical counterpart, and Hildegard was thought to have been an infirmarian in the monastery where she lived. Although the monasteries retained 'serfs', these monastery dependents could actually own property and employ others to help them in their work, including their own slaves. This monastery collected vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of anonymous people's repentances, leaving the donations on the monastery's premise. In the previous year of 713, Emperor Xuanzong had liquidated the highly lucrative Inexhaustible Treasury, which was run by a prominent Buddhist monastery in Chang'an. Ascension Cathedral, built in the 1750s, is located in the historic center of the city on Tverskaya Avenue and has the status of episcopal monastery. According to Willibald, Boniface later had a church with an attached monastery built in Fritzlar, on the site of the previously built chapel, according to tradition. This monastery is believed to have occupied the site of the Church of St Mary Major in the City of Exeter, demolished in 1971, next to which was later built Exeter Cathedral. The Gothic church of the old Franciscan monastery is today the Protestant parish church, and the monastery's other buildings have been converted into a modern hospital. Summer has the young monk, now 17, becoming hot and bothered by a beautiful young woman who has been brought to the monastery to recover from a spiritual malaise. 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