Fontfroide Abbey | ... untryside to study at the University of Paris. In 1311 he was made Abbot of | and quickly became known for his intelligence and organizational ability. ... |
Beeston Regis | The memorial to the men and women of Sheringham and | who died in military service during the two World Wars is located at on th ... |
Fountains Abbey | ... he survive a serious illness. He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of | land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now in Lancashire) o ... |
San Miniato al Monte | ... ng Santa Trinita, San Marco, Santa Felicita, Badia Fiorentina, San Gaetano, | , Florence Charterhouse, and Santa Maria del Carmine. The city additionall ... |
Norwich Cathedral | ... (1860), prepared plans for the restoration of Bristol Cathedral in 1859 and | in 1860 neither of which resulted in a commission, and designed a pulpit f ... |
Torre Abbey | ... h having a market and fair in 1294. The first major building in Torquay was | , a Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1196. Percy Russell, A History ... |
Thorney Abbey | ... ecclesiastical misconduct, and deposed several abbots, including Robert of | in 1195 and an abbot of St Mary's in the province of the Archbishop of Yor ... |
Dorje Pakmo | ... e died while meditating in 1474 at the age of 84 (83 by Western reckoning). | (1422–1455), the highest female incarnation in Tibet, was a contemporary o ... |
Marylake Carmelite Monastery | East End is the home of | since the 1950s. Scenes from Burt Reynolds' movie White Lightning were sho ... |
Mar Saba | ... opments), returning the relics of Sabbas the Sanctified (a common saint) to | in the same year, and the first visit of a Pope to an Orthodox country in ... |
Santa Maria del Carmine | ... is among the first examples of Baroque architecture built in the city; the | , in the Oltrarno district of Florence, which is the location of the Branc ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... hat the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in | , close to his friend William Pitt |
Micy | ... er student and monk Remi of Trèves, his colleague Constantine, the abbot of | , as well as the accounts of his former student and French nobleman Richer ... |
Fountains Abbey | ... n the border of a stream; often with the buildings extending over it, as at | . These valleys, now so rich and productive, had a very different appearan ... |
Monastery of Saint Pishoy | File:Bischoy Kloster BW 1.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Fontevraud Abbey | ... sed of attempting to poison the king, and to avoid arrest, sought refuge in | where she died two years later, but none of this can be confirmed |
Gandersheim | ... tion, Judith had an older half-sister, Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and | , born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of Denmark |
Shaftesbury Abbey | ... e known as St Edward the Martyr, from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at | . In 984, in obedience to a vision of St Andrew, he persuaded King Æthelre ... |
Bristol Cathedral | ... ixon monument in York Minster (1860), prepared plans for the restoration of | in 1859 and Norwich Cathedral in 1860 neither of which resulted in a commi ... |
Prüm Abbey | In 855, when Lothair was on his deathbed at | , he divided his kingdom between his three sons in the Treaty of Prüm. To ... |
Ely Cathedral | ... rom the flat fenlands that surround it for miles. Other churches, including | , also derive nicknames from their appearance when viewed from the fens |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | King Henry VIII's | brought about the closure of Wymondham Abbey, which was surrendered to the ... |
Southwick Priory | ... Thomas Becket was erected by Augustinian monks; it was run by the monks of | until the Reformation. The modern is built on the original location of the ... |
Norwich Cathedral | Norwich is a popular destination for a city break; attractions include | , the cobbled streets and museums of old Norwich, The Castle, Cow Tower, C ... |
Glastonbury Abbey | ... g boy, Dunstan studied under the Irish monks who then occupied the ruins of | . Accounts tell of his youthful optimism and of his vision of the abbey be ... |
Port-Royal | ... in 1649, his grandmother, Marie des Moulins, went to live in the convent of | and took her grandson with her. He received a classical education at the P ... |
Peterborough Abbey | ... Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and | ) as well as Spalding Abbey. As major landowners, the monasteries played a ... |
Port-Royal | ... s is often seen in his relation to the latter movement of Jansenism and the | theologians such as Blaise Pascal |
Abbey | ... stablished a new church dedicated to the Holy Trinity which evolved into an | under their son, David I in 1128. The graveyard of this abbey would become ... |
Nostell Priory | ... itarist. Jugg's first appearance with the band live was when they headlined | rock festival held in West Yorkshire on 24 August 1984. The somewhat confu ... |
St. Peter's Monastery | ... th century manuscript as a daughter of Wulfhere. An 11th-century history of | in Gloucester names two other women, Eadburh and Eafe, as queens of Wulfhe ... |
Tewkesbury Abbey | ... director of the Tallis Scholars and Benjamin Nicholas, director of music at | A spire from the chapel has resided in Pavilion Garden VI of the Universit ... |
the nearby monastery | ... pproximately 5,000 years old. The Russian Orthodox Church owns the site and | |
Westminster Abbey | ... g of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was buried in | |
Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi | ... ro Lorenzetti and Simone Martini worked shoulder to shoulder at Assisi. The | includes a number of artistic works. Simone Martini's 1317 fresco there re ... |
the abbey | ... issance burgh. Some of the surviving buildings of the fire were the palace, | and the Abbot's House |
Gisborough Priory | ... car and Cleveland. Gighesbore is listed in the Domesday Book and the ruined | dates back to the 12th century. The priory and (16th century, demolished a ... |
grange | ... Accrington to the monks of Kirkstall in the 12th century. The monks built a | there; removing the inhabitants to make room for it. The locals got their ... |
Lorsch Abbey | ... year 766, surviving in a 12th-century copy in the Codex Laureshamensis from | . The name is interpreted as "the home of Manno", where Manno is a short f ... |
Monastery of Saint Anthony | File:St. Anthony's Monastery 2006.jpg| | , Eastern Desert, Egyp |
Ephrata Cloister | ... an history, such as the music of the Amish, the Harmony Society, and of the | in Pennsylvania |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... ry and other bishops. At various times the choice was made by the canons of | , the King of England, or the Pope. Since the English Reformation, the Chu ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... Little Saxham, Suffolk, in 1618, and was educated at Westminster School and | . He gained some distinction as a scholar and a poet, and was originally d ... |
Reading Abbey | Scott restored the Inner Gateway (also known as the Abbey Gateway) of | in 1860 - 1861 after its partial collapse. St Mary's of Charity in Faversh ... |
Chagri Monastery | ... r. After a stay of nearly eight months Cacella wrote a long letter from the | reporting the travel. This is a rare report of the Shabdrung remaining |
Klaarkamp Abbey | The first known owners of Schiermonnikoog were the monks of | , a Cistercian monastery near Rinsumageest, on the mainland. "Monnik" mean ... |
Kirkstall | Robert de Lacy gave the manor of Accrington to the monks of | in the 12th century. The monks built a grange there; removing the inhabita ... |
Medeshamstede | ... cording to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Wulfhere endowed a major monastery at | , in modern Peterborough. The monastery had initially been endowed by Pead ... |
Gampo Abbey | ... are a tiny minority (105 in 2001, according to Statistics Canada), although | in Pleasant Bay has been operational since 1984 |
Monastery of Saint Pishoy | File:Bischoy Kloster BW 10.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... ishop Lanfranc to a tomb on the south side of the high altar in the rebuilt | |
Basilica of Saint Francis | ... st-classical period to use this technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper | in Assisi. A person who creates fresco is called a frescoist |
monastery of Cluny | ... orking from the extensive documentary sources surviving from the Burgundian | , as well as the dioceses of Mâcon and Dijon, Duby excavated the complex s ... |
Hulne Priory | ... on, Northumberland is an example of a so-called vicar's pele and the one at | is in the grounds of the priory. Hawkshaw, ancestral home of the Porteous ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... Henry VIII broke from Rome an era of religious repression began. During the | , Catholic Church property and land was appropriated to the new Church of ... |
Calke Abbey | ... National Trust, located in Derbyshire that are open to the public, such as | , Hardwick Hall, High Peak Estate, Ilam Park, Kedleston Hall, Longshaw Est ... |
Ettal Abbey | ... tion throughout the world by elevating 20 well-known Marian shrines such as | in Bavaria into Basilica Minors. He also promoted Marian devotions in May ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... e Gathering", organised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, at | to discuss religion, society and journalism, among other issues, in front ... |
Melrose Abbey | ... of Thomas Purnell of Scarborough. Brewster died in 1868, and was buried at | , next to his first wife and second son. The physics building at Heriot Wa ... |
Ganina Yama | ... urovsky Note. Initially the bodies were thrown down a disused mine-shaft at | , 12 miles (19 km) north of Yekaterinburg. A short time later they were re ... |
Meteora | ... ecords as the deepest gorge in the world. Another notable formation are the | rock pillars, atop which have been built medieval Greek Orthodox monasteri ... |
Christ Church | ... et. At one time the college owned all the land from the site of what is now | to the south eastern corner of the city. The land to the east eventually b ... |
Heiligenkreuz Abbey | The Thallern estate in Gumpoldskirchen, another Cistercian grange, owned by | , dates from 1147 |
Westminster Abbey | ... ed to the princes. On the orders of Charles II the remains were reburied in | . In 1933, the grave was opened to see if modern science could cast any li ... |
dissolution of the monasteries | ... Leland, the antiquary, in the 1540s. It probably became available after the | , in which the property of many religious houses was confiscated and sold. ... |
Zaikonospassky monastery | ... laws was considerably mitigated. He founded the academy of sciences in the | , where everything not expressly forbidden by the Orthodox church, includi ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... e until Gay's death, which took place on December 4, 1732. He was buried in | . The epitaph on his tomb is by Pope, and is followed by Gay's own mocking ... |
Schönau Abbey | ... monastery. The first reference to Heidelberg can be found in a document in | dated to 1196. This is considered the founding date for Heidelberg. In 115 ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | His son Charles, studying to be a divine at | , died in 1731, the same year that the Swift and Pope Miscellanies, Volume ... |
Christ Church | Philip was educated at Shrewsbury School and | , Oxford. In 1572 he was elected to Parliament as Member of Parliament for ... |
Clairvaux | ... such quick succession by the first Cistercian houses, the renowned abbey of | (de Clara Valle), AD 1116 |
El Escorial | ... shed, Cathedral of Valladolid was designed by Juan de Herrera, architect of | |
Westminster Abbey | ... was among sixteen Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in | 's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by friend and f ... |
Monastery of Saint Anthony | File:MonasteroAntonio2.jpg| | , Eastern Desert, Egyp |
Villers Abbey | In the north of the village, lie the ruins of the | , which was one of the most important Cistercian abbeys of Europe |
Westminster Abbey | Mountbatten was buried in Romsey Abbey after a televised funeral in | which he himself had comprehensively planned |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... was a scholar under Richard Busby, at the age of eighteen he was elected to | in 1681. There he is said to have dedicated himself completely to his stud ... |
Fulda | ... 3 (A 3), Cologne to Würzburg, and the Bundesautobahn 66 (A 66), Rheingau to | , meet. With approximately 190,000 cars daily it is one of the most heavil ... |
Dryburgh Abbey | ... III there were 35 houses. Soon after their arrival in England, they founded | in the Borders area of Scotland, which was followed by other communities a ... |
Westminster Abbey | | is another example of a great Benedictine abbey, identical in its general ... |
Savigny Abbey | ... Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, who brought Benedictine monks from | in southern Normandy. In 1147, the abbey became part of the Cistercian Ord ... |
Ely Cathedral | ... an honorary degree (D.Univ) by the Open University at an award ceremony in | on 30 May 2009 |
Admont Abbey | ... ied after the latter year, in a relative advanced age. Her place of burial, | in , apparently confirm this theory |
Peterborough Abbey | ... er, his fame spread and lived on. In an undated catalogue of the library at | , most likely from the 14th century, he is listed as a part author of ten ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... rs". At the time, London was the largest town in England; the foundation of | and the old Palace of Westminster under Edward the Confessor had marked it ... |
Monastery of Saint Pishoy | File:Bischoy Kloster BW 9.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Westminster Abbey | ... cession Council that meets at St. James's Palace. The monarch is crowned in | , normally by the Archbishop of Canterbury. A coronation is not necessary ... |
Meteora | ... zFest in 2001. Bennington was plagued with poor health during the making of | , and struggled to attend some of the album’s recording sessions. He fell ... |
St Mary's Abbey, York | | , of which the ground-plan is annexed, exhibits the usual Benedictine arra ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... er, Queen Victoria. Queen Mary was crowned with the King on 22 June 1911 at | . Later in the year, the new King and Queen travelled to India for the Del ... |
Lilienfeld Abbey | ... ger Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (“the Glorious”) to the Cistercian monks at | in 1202, though the property as such (as opposed to the endowment) is trad ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... ed Trinity Chapel where it stood until it was destroyed in 1538, during the | , on orders from King Henry VIII. The king also destroyed Becket's bones a ... |
Gisborough Priory | ... ts. The college is next door to St Nicholas' Parish Church and the ruins of | . It is situated on the former site of Guisborough Grammar School, which i ... |
Dore Abbey | ... n his family pedigree painted at Theobalds. The family had connections with | . However, the move to Stamford provides information concerning the Lord T ... |
Bradenstoke Priory | ... ooms from castles and palaces in Europe. The Great Hall was bought from the | in Wiltshire and reconstructed brick by brick in its current site at St. D ... |
Schönau Abbey | ... me, the bishopric of Worms extended its influence into the valley, founding | in 1142. Modern Heidelberg can trace its roots to this 12th century monast ... |
Santo Stefano | One example is | in Bologna, Italy, an agglomeration of seven churches recreating shrines o ... |
Kylemore Abbey | ... ish citizen in 1964 and his daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at | for a number of years. A film school is now dedicated to him on the NUIG c ... |
dissolved | ... l of Gloucester and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was | by King Henry VIII of England in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this ... |
Vihara | ... as and other archaeological remains, like foundations of Buddhist buildings | , compound walls and stone baths, are found on many islands of the Maldive ... |
Prüm Abbey | ... 's Abbey, near Trier. A century later, the Bastogne area went to the nearby | . The town of Bastogne and its marketplace are again mentioned in an 887 d ... |
Westminster | ... tempts by King Henry to influence the other bishops against Becket began in | in October 1163, where the King sought approval of the traditional rights ... |
Bolton Abbey | ... succeeded to the title in 2004, continues to live primarily on the family's | estate. His son, William Burlington maintains an apartment in the castle a ... |
Florence Charterhouse | ... Marco, Santa Felicita, Badia Fiorentina, San Gaetano, San Miniato al Monte, | , and Santa Maria del Carmine. The city additionally contains the Orthodox ... |
Romsey Abbey | Mountbatten was buried in | after a televised funeral in Westminster Abbey which he himself had compre ... |
Backnang Abbey | ... om dominate the town's industries. The Stiftskirche, formerly the church of | , dates back to the 12th century |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... of the River Aire. It was founded c.1152. It was disestablished during the | under the auspices of Henry VIII |
Christ Church, Oxford | In 1761 he was a made a canon of | and in 1768 a canon of St Paul's from where he moved to be a canon at St G ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... hed, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King Henry VIII during the | to pray for his soul. In 2006, 39.4% of Peterborough local education autho ... |
Whitby Abbey | ... ther who cared for the animals at the monastery Streonæshalch (now known as | ). One evening, while the monks were feasting, singing, and playing a harp ... |
Peterborough Cathedral | ... e seat of the Bishop of Peterborough since the Diocese was created in 1541. | is one of the most intact large Norman churches in England and is renowned ... |
Lanercost | ... uses, not infrequently, had only a north aisle, as at Bolton, Brinkburn and | . The arrangement of the monastic buildings followed the ordinary type. Th ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ough House; she was buried at Blenheim. Her husband’s body was exhumed from | and buried beside her |
Ephrata Cloister | ... g the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness (led by Johannes Kelpius), the | , and the Harmony Society, among others. The Harmony Society was a Christi ... |
Oronsay Priory | ... a variety of other monastic foundations with Columban associations, such as | or Iona, Inchcolm is considered the most likely source of the manuscript's ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ers of both Houses of Parliament urged that he be honoured with a burial in | . The family agreed and, on 3 August 1833, Wilberforce was buried in the n ... |
New Jerusalem Monastery | ... nd. They include the of Görlitz, constructed between 1481 and 1504, and the | in Moscow Oblast, constructed by Patriarch Nikon between 1656 to 1666 |
Pontigny Abbey | ... y this fresh demand, Edmund in the summer of 1240 retired to the Cistercian | in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, Thomas Becket and ... |
Pontigny | ... red Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abbey of | , until Henry's threats against the order obliged him to return to Sens. B ... |
Stanbrook Abbey | ... he faith at , close to his home. He also paid regular visits to the nuns at | , and the abbey press printed commemorative editions of some of his poems. ... |
Santa Maria del Carmine | ... a Fiorentina, San Gaetano, San Miniato al Monte, Florence Charterhouse, and | . The city additionally contains the Orthodox Russian church of Nativity, ... |
Clairvaux | The abbey was founded in 1147 as a daughter house of | by Robert, Earl of Gloucester and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... n and Mary, Queen of Scots. The remains of Queen Mary were later removed to | by her son James I when he became King of England |
Worcester Cathedral | After being ordained, Bentley was promoted to a prebendal stall in | . In 1693 the curator of the royal library became vacant, and his friends ... |
Holy Trinity | ... ption locally and £166 was paid to St Katherine's Hospital and the prior of | in compensation |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... School of Alexander Nowell. Raised in Protestant circles, Harrison entered | and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of Queen M ... |
Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great | File:Macarius Kloster BW 1.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Westminster Abbey | Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at | on 23 July 1986, the same day The Queen created him Duke of York, Earl of ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... on on 13 June 1625 in Canterbury. Charles was crowned on 2 February 1626 at | , but without his wife at his side due to the controversy. Charles and Hen ... |
Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite | File:MonasteroPaolo4.jpg| | , Eastern Desert, Egyp |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... h was once one of the largest in Europe. The abbey was destroyed during the | , with only Abbot Lichfield's Bell Tower remaining. During the 13th centur ... |
Abbey | ... in my burgh of Dunfermline". The foundations of the church evolved into an | in 1128, under the reign of their son, David I. Dunfermline Abbey would pl ... |
Dunfermline Abbey | The Category A listed | on the Kirkgate is one of the best examples of Scoto-Norman monastic archi ... |
St Maximin's Abbey | ... only much later, in 634, when the local lord ceded these territories to the | , near Trier. A century later, the Bastogne area went to the nearby Prüm A ... |
Ardenne Abbey massacre | ... n front on 7 June, in the Caen area. The same day they were involved in the | . The next unit to arrive was the 17 SS Götz von Berlichingen on 11 June, ... |
Lismore Abbey | The castle site was originally occupied by | , an important monastery and seat of learning established in the early 7th ... |
Burton Abbey | ... ther (hence Ælfgifu's uncle) Wulfric Spot, a wealthy nobleman and patron of | . Her cognomen 'of Northampton' is attached to her in Manuscript D of the ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... in were brought in procession through the streets of London for funerals at | and Westminster Cathedral. When Joseph Devlin, an Irish Parliamentary Part ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... and, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and | , and formed the "Oxford Methodist" group among his fellow students in 172 ... |
Medmenham | In WW2 a Joint Imagery Intelligence unit was set up in Danesfield House, | in Buckinghamshire, UK for British and US Intelligence Officers to exploit ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in | in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edw ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... until the reign of Charles II, a procession would be led from the Tower to | on the coronation of a monarch. In the absence of the monarch, the Constab ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | He also has a residence next to | on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace |
Tongland Abbey | ... h was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory, Dercongal Abbey and | all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in northern Britain |
Trzebnica Abbey | ... Old Polish name of Lubin in a 1267 deed by Pope Clement IV as a fiefdom of | |
Medeshamstede | ... The Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, then known as | , which later became Peterborough Cathedral. The population grew rapidly f ... |
Christ Church, Oxford | ... following in the footsteps of his father, who had also been sent there) and | , where he gained a first class honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and ... |
Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great | File:St marcarius.JPG| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Cluny Abbey | The town grew up around the Benedictine | , founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of Cluniac inf ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... Gloucester. She was crowned queen in an elaborate ceremony on 9 October at | in London. Isabella was originally betrothed to Hugh IX le Brun, Count of ... |
Pontigny Abbey | After his death he was taken back to | , where his main relics are now found in a baroque reliquary tomb dating t ... |
Evesham Abbey | | , which became possibly the third largest in England, was founded by Saint ... |
Monastery of the Miracle | ... thodox celebrate a feast in commemoration of this event on 6 September. The | (Chudov Monastery) in the Moscow Kremlin, where the Russian Tsars were bap ... |
Fearn Abbey | ... ory, Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as | in northern Britain |
Buildwas Abbey | ... abbey became part of the Cistercian Order and therefore a daughter house of | in Shropshire. Earlier on, they had received the manor of West Kirby from ... |
Thorney Abbey | ... nland monastic houses include the so-called Fen Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, | , Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and Peterborough Abbey) as well as Spalding ... |
Abbotskerswell Priory | ... community of Augustinian canonesses who until 1983 lived at the convent at | , Devon. It is now preserved at Syon Abbey, near South Brent |
Whithorn Priory | ... in the Borders area of Scotland, which was followed by other communities at | , Dercongal Abbey and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as F ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... d by King John after Walter's death. He was buried in the Trinity Chapel in | , next to Thomas Becket, where his tomb can still be seen. The tomb occupi ... |
Chester Cathedral | ... was also awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Chester in 2009 at | |
Westminster Abbey | ... ed up and placed in an urn, which Charles II of England ordered interred in | in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel. The rags and velvet were not men ... |
Clonmacnoise | ... 1875. The church probably commemorates St. Ciarán (Kieran), the founder of | , a monastic settlement that had associations with Glendalough during the ... |
Welbeck | ... by, Yorkshire, and Bayham, Kent. The head house of the order in England was | . This order was a reformed branch of the Augustinian canons, founded, AD ... |
Christ Church Priory | ... He also revived his predecessor's dispute over setting up a church to rival | in Canterbury, which was only settled when the pope ordered him to abandon ... |
Dercongal Abbey | ... ea of Scotland, which was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory, | and Tongland Abbey all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey in nort ... |
Meteora | ... December 2002, revealing their new work was inspired by the rocky region of | in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks. ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | At the | , all monastic manors were seized by King Henry VIII. They were sold off o ... |
Dunfermline Abbey | After King Alexander III was buried at | on 29 March 1286, the magnates and clerics of the realm assembled at Scone ... |
Hulne Priory | ... stures. Nearby is the much larger Hulne Park, which contains the remains of | |
Abbey of Gembloux | The town grew around the | , founded in the tenth century. In the vicinity of the town, in 1578, the ... |
Syrian Monastery | ... rescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery3.jpg|Iconostasis and frescos from the | , Scetes, Egyp |
Westminster Abbey | ... year in France). In Britain, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was created at | , while in France La tombe du soldat inconnu was placed in the Arc de Trio ... |
Waltham Abbey | ... e made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1648 or 1649 to the curacy of | . His possession of the living was in jeopardy on the appointment of Olive ... |
Fountains | The English Cistercian houses, of which there are remains at | , Rievaulx, Kirkstall, Tintern and Netley were mainly arranged after the s ... |
Ramsey Abbey | ... he so-called Fen Five (Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, | and Peterborough Abbey) as well as Spalding Abbey. As major landowners, th ... |
Bolton Abbey | ... d to the Cavendish family, as did numerous other Boyle residences including | , Londesborough Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle i ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... result would attend the negotiations at Oxford, Fuller preached a sermon at | , on 27 March 1643, on the anniversary of Charles I's accession, on the te ... |
Postel Abbey | In the north-east corner of Mol, near the Dutch border, lies the Norbertine | . Mol is also home to the SCK•CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, the Fle ... |
Lincluden Abbey | ... he time a mile upstream and on the opposite bank of the Nith from Dumfries, | was founded circa 1160. The abbey ruins are on the site of the Bailey of t ... |
Ilchester Friary | ... was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, possibly in 1213 or 1214 at the | . The only source for his date of birth is his statement in the Opus Terti ... |
Anchin Abbey | ... rsity of Paris entered the Order of Saint Benedict. He soon became prior of | , near Pecquencourt, and passed much of his time in the valuable monastery ... |
Stanbrook Abbey | ... h Revolution and its successor community has since 1838 been established at | , near Malvern |
Glendalough | ... l the Viking invasions in the eighth century. After raids on monasteries at | and Clondalkin, the monasteries at Glasnevin and Finglas were attacked and ... |
Holyrood Abbey | ... as baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a ceremony held in | and was created Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross and Lord ... |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | In 1536, abbey life came to an end with the | during the reign of King Henry VIII. Its dissolution was made lawful by th ... |
Badia Fiorentina | ... well as several others, including Santa Trinita, San Marco, Santa Felicita, | , San Gaetano, San Miniato al Monte, Florence Charterhouse, and Santa Mari ... |
Westminster Abbey | Manhole covers with Crapper's company's name on them in | are now one of London's minor tourist attractions. Thomas Crapper & Co own ... |
Syrian Monastery | File:Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery2.jpg|Frescos at the | , Scetes, Egyp |
St. Emmeram's Abbey | ... tions; on the occasion of the wedding, Emperor Henry IV commissioned to the | the creation of Gospel Books to the Polish court, now kept in the library ... |
Syrian Monastery | File:Deir as Suriani.jpg| | , Scetes, Egyp |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... land. Between 1535 and 1540, under Thomas Cromwell, the policy known as the | was put into effect. The veneration of some saints, certain pilgrimages an ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... Lambeth. He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, Canterbury, located beside | , where the Chair of St. Augustine sits |
Westminster Abbey | Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at | , recorded and broadcast by BBC radio to 200 million people around the wor ... |
Inkerman Cave Monastery | The | marks the supposed place of Clement's burial in the Crimea. A year or two ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... ddlesex domesday map in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Stanes. It was held by | . Its domesday assets were: 19 hides. It had 6 mills worth £3 4s 0d, 2 wei ... |
Pairis Abbey | ... me from the Holy Roman Empire, including the men under Bishop Martin of the | and Bishop Conrad of Halberstadt, together in alliance with the Venetian s ... |
Chertsey Abbey | ... he manor of Downe. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was owned by | . It has been used for many purposes including the processing of corn, pap ... |
Skellig Michael | ... le that the cell had a stone-corbelled roof, similar to the beehive huts on | , County Kerry |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | Downside Mill, Cobham was the mill of the manor of Downe. Until the | it was owned by Chertsey Abbey. It has been used for many purposes includi ... |
Peterborough Cathedral | ... tablishment of a monastery, then known as Medeshamstede, which later became | . The population grew rapidly following the arrival of the railways in the ... |
Glastonbury Abbey | Edgar died on 8 July 975 at Winchester, and was buried at | . He left two sons, the elder named Edward, who was probably his illegitim ... |
Bolton Abbey | ... stle (along with other Boyle properties - Chiswick House, Burlington House, | and Londesborough Hall) was acquired by the Cavendish family in 1753 when ... |
Westminster Abbey | When Richard II was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to | . This tradition began in at least the early 14th century and lasted until ... |
St Augustine's Abbey | ... , and dedicated it to saints Peter and Paul; it was later re-consecrated as | , Canterbury. Laurence also wrote to the bishops in the lands held by the ... |
Baume | ... by William, duke of Aquitaine and count of Auvergne, under Berno, abbot of | . He was succeeded by Odo, who is often regarded as the founder of the ord ... |
Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas | In her youth, she visited the | , founded by her father, several times. Later in life, she would establish ... |
Clonmacnoise | ... he 9th century we find mention of nine places in Ireland (including Armagh, | , Clones, Devenish and Sligo) where communities of Culdees were establishe ... |
Vallombrosa | ... ovence, especially the monasteries Montecassino, Saint-Victor de Marseille, | , boosted the agriculture in a land which was extremely underdeveloped. Th ... |
Chertsey Abbey | Epsom appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Evesham. It was held by | . Its domesday assets were: 11 hides; 2 churches, 2 mills worth 10 shillin ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... s and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in | . Soon after his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III |
Norwich Cathedral | ... orical architecture. The medieval period is represented by the 11th century | , 12th century castle (now a museum) and a large number of parish churches ... |
Thetford Priory | He was buried in | , but his body seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to th ... |
Abbey of Gethsemani | ... 8) was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the | , Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative rel ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... yal Gold Medal in 1859. Knighted in 1872, he died in 1878 and was buried in | |
Dissolution of the Monasteries | ... d in Faversham Abbey; all three tombs are now lost, as a consequence of the | |
Medeshamstede | Peterborough is shown by its original name | to have possibly been an Anglian settlement before AD 655, when Saxwulf fo ... |
Westminster Abbey | Christina Nilsson was married in | to the French banker Auguste Rouzaud, who later died in 1882. In 1887 she ... |
Norwich Cathedral | In 1096, Herbert de Losinga, the Bishop of Thetford, began construction of | . The chief building material for the Cathedral was limestone, imported fr ... |
St. Jean des Vignes Abbey | ... ufacturing centre with the 12th century Soissons Cathedral and the ruins of | as two of its most important historical buildings. The nearby Espace Pierr ... |
Syrian Monastery | File:Frescos from the Wadi Natrun monastery1.jpg|Frescos at the | , Scetes, Egyp |
Gandersheim | ... riage Princess of Vladimir-Volynia), Agnes (later Abbess of Quedlinburg and | ), Adelaide (by marriage Countess of Vohburg and Margravine of the Norther ... |
Whitby Abbey | ... for the animals and was attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch ( | ) during the abbacy (657–680) of St. Hilda (614–680), he was originally ig ... |
Westminster Abbey | ... her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Park Lane. The offer of burial in | was declined by her relatives, and she is buried in the graveyard at St. M ... |
abbey | The town was founded around an early 8th century | , which was once one of the largest in Europe. The abbey was destroyed dur ... |
Monastery of San Francisco | The catacombs beneath the | in Lima, Peru also contain an ossuary |
Westminster Abbey | ... n, made from the same tree at Kedleston that had encased Mary, was taken to | and from there to his ancestral home, where he was interred beside Mary in ... |
Faversham Abbey | He was buried in | in Kent, which was founded by his parents. They too were buried in Faversh ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... house. The manor house formerly associated with the church was assigned to | by Christian priest Warherdus as far back as 830 AD. The site of the origi ... |
Monastery of Saint Mina | File:Monastery of Abu Mena (03-2009).jpg| | , Western Desert, Egyp |
Strata Florida Abbey | ... y Rhys ap Gruffydd in or about 1185, is in the care of Cadw. In common with | , it was once claimed to be the site of the grave of the medieval Welsh po ... |
Canterbury Cathedral | ... hoir. The original inspiration for this octagon may have been the Corona of | , although octagonal shrines have a long history in Christian architecture ... |
Holy Cross Abbey | ... the term by Jim Garvin, a Vietnam veteran who became a Trappist monk in the | of Berryville, Virginia, and went on to lead the economic development of P ... |
Coldingham Abbey | ... suggest that Cædmon’s death occurred at about the same time as the fire at | , an event dated in the E text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to 679, but af ... |
San Juan de la Peña | ... al of Pamplona list them in this way, as well as four from the monastery of | . One charter from Pamplona, dated 29 September 1023, is witnessed by Sanc ... |
Torre Abbey | The first major building in Torquay was | , a Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1196. Torquay remained a minor ... |
Westminster | ... 15 September 1189 at Pipewell, with the consecration on 22 October 1189 at | . Also elected to bishoprics at this council were Godfrey de Lucy to the s ... |
Merton Priory | Beginning when he was 10, Becket was sent as a student to | in England and later attended a grammar school in London, perhaps the one ... |
Blue Cloud Abbey | | is a Benedictine monastery located near Marvin |
Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Monastery | ... rt, a promiment Cherokee Indian. The population was 543 at the 2000 census. | is a Benedictine Monastery located in Hulbert. The Clear Creek Monastery, ... |