Monastery in a sentence

The holy oil has been created using olives harvested from two groves on the Mount of Olives, at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene and the Monastery of the Ascension, and will be used to anoint the King during the extravagant ceremony.

These bishops are Damaskinos of Dorileon from the Monastery of Tzagarolon in Chania and Irineos of Eumenia from the Monastery of Gouverneto – Lady of the Angels in Chania.

The Buddhist nuns at the Druk Gawa Khilva Monastery have practiced kung fu for years as part of their spiritual practice while training the young girls of the monastery in self defense.

The Carmelite Monastery in Kansas is shutting down and merging with the Carmelite Monastery of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph in Brooklyn, New York, which does not have a cemetery.

The monastery dates back to the Byzantine era, and the fortress-like monastery is said to be named after Arkadios, a monk who founded the holy order.

Arriving in January 1582, she set up a monastery of nuns, while John stayed in the friars' monastery of Los Martires, beside the Alhambra, becoming its prior in March 1582.sfn While here, he learned of the death of Teresa in October of that year.

At that point, the abbot of the monastery set fire to the gunpowder stored in the monastery's vaults, causing the death of most of the rebels and the women and children sheltered there.

De Hamel, 57 These individuals often lived close to the monastery and, in certain instances, dressed as monks whenever they entered the monastery, but were allowed to leave at the end of the day.

For security reasons he was moved to Derge monastery and eventually, in 1716, now also backed and sponsored by the Kangxi Emperor he was taken to Amdo at the age of 8 to be installed in Kumbum Monastery with great pomp and ceremony.

He lived in St. Augustine's Monastery, now an evangelical monastery, in Erfurt as a monk from 1505 to 1511.

In 1693, having received a request from the Vatopedi Monastery for the return of St John's skull, Tsar Peter the Great ordered that the skull remain in Russia but that the monastery was to be paid 500 rubles every four years.

In 794, Theodore became abbot of the Sakkudion Monastery, while Platon withdrew from the daily operation of the monastery and dedicated himself to silence.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

In his testament, Cortés asked for his body to be buried in the monastery he had ordered to be built in Coyoacan in México, ten years after his death, but the monastery was never built.

Near the Monastery of St. Ursus, a Franciscan monastery was built, and after 1280 it formed the northern city wall on the eastern part of the city.

Oderisio fortified the monastery, as the people of the town of Cassino forcibly entered the monastery, and after an armed struggle forced the monks to declare Oderisio deposed and to elect another abbot in his place.

Pontikonisi is home of the monastery of Pantokrator (Μοναστήρι του Παντοκράτορος); the white stone staircase of the monastery, viewed from afar, gives the impression of a (mouse) tail, which lent the island its name.

Rather, they spring from her experience helping in and then leading the monastery’s herbal garden and infirmary, as well as the theoretical information she likely gained through her wide-ranging reading in the monastery’s library.

The monastery, founded by Irish or Scottish monks in about 620, is held to be the oldest monastery in Bavaria.

After a search, high above the monastery we located a series of carved stones with the names of various expedition members.