58 Verbs to Use for the Word monastery

But within ten years of the Conquest William de Warenne and his wife determined to found an important monastery at the gates of their town, and with this intention they set out on pilgrimage for Rome to consult, and to obtain the blessing of, the Pope.

The people of that country are constantly seeing men on the wing, who come and enter this monastery.

By the side of the tope he further built a monastery, called the Abhayagiri, where there are now five thousand monks.

So great was his influence that when he died, in 1153, he left behind one hundred and sixty monasteries formed after his model.

He built churches, he endowed monasteries, he enriched the ecclesiastics, and he bestowed revenues for the support of chantries at Assington and other places, where he appointed prayers to be said for the souls of those who had there fallen in battle against him.

They asked permission to erect a monastery there, so the king gave them an islandone of the smaller onesthis one facing Lake Mälar.

He established a monastery on the island of Tabenna in the Nile, and was the first thus to collect the monks under one roof and establish strict rules of government for the community.

Not long after his arrival he made an excursion to Ithaca, and, visiting the monastery at Vathi, was received by the abbot with great ceremony, which, in a fit of irritation, brought on by a tiresome ride on a mule, he returned with unusual discourtesy; but next morning, on his giving a donation to their alms-box, he was dismissed with the blessing of the monks.

Coming back we stopped at the foot of a hill on which stands the shell-wrecked monastery of San Grado di Merna, a white ruin gaunt against the darker background of the Nad Logem.

(1509-1547) broke with the Pope, dissolved the monasteries, proclaimed himself head of the church, and allowed the laity to read the Bible, but insisted on retaining many of the old beliefs.

Northumbria was conquered by the Danes, who destroyed the monasteries and the libraries containing our earliest literature.

On my way thither, as I passed a Buddhist monastery, I was struck by the appearance of a man sitting at the side of the road near it.

On reaching the monastery of St. Thomas of Aposello, he was seized with a mortal disease, before having accomplished the object of his journey.

Among other things, it instituted monasteries and convents, both for men and women, in which they sought to escape the contaminating influences which had degraded them.

A scholar named Grimbald came from St. Omer to preside over his new abbey at Winchester; and John, the old Saxon, was fetched from the abbey of Corbey to rule a monastery and school that Alfred's gratitude for his deliverance from the Danes raised in the marshes of Athelney.

He would burn yonder monastery and all within to ashes for the wind to carry away; and he would lock Katherine in the tower with his own hands; and he started toward the door, half-dressed as he was, and flung it wide open.

In this city, which is twice as long as Bologna, there are abundance of provisions, and it contains many monasteries of religious persons, who are devoted to the worship of idols.

In the ensuing spring, Nicolo Zeno resolved to go out upon discoveries; and, having fitted out three small vessels, he set sail in July, shaping his course to the northwards, and arrived in Engroveland, where he found a monastery of predicant friars, and a church dedicated to St Thomas, hard by a mountain that threw out fire like Etna or Vesuvius.

It was he who demolished the monasteries, and made war on the whole monastic system, and undermined the papal power in England, and swept away many of the most glaring of those abuses which disgraced the Papal Empire.

The East never saw such monasteries as those which covered Italy, France, Germany, and England; they were more needed among the feudal robbers of Europe than in the effeminate monarchies of Asia.

Now she travelled as a devotee travels heavenward, making a monastery of the world, and convent-walls out of rays from Paradise.

They therefore approached the Abbot with the request that he would send three or four of his monks to start the monastery.

A venerable grove of oak trees, which formerly surrounded the monastery, was cut down in the revolution.

[i], when a body of these pirates pillaged a monastery: but their ships being much damaged by a storm, and their leader slain in a skirmish, they were at last defeated by the inhabitants, and the remainder of them put to the sword.

William even plundered the monasteries.

58 Verbs to Use for the Word  monastery