| Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery. |
| A slype is the name for a covered passage from a church or monastery cloister. |
| As a hymnographer St Theophanes belongs to the tradition of the monastery of Mar Sabbas, near Bethlehem. |
| It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege. |
| He gained greater freedom in 1867 when the monastery was made an abbey and he was appointed abbot as well as a local bishop. |
| 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. |
