Six churches still remain of the fifteen which, beside many conventual buildings, formerly adorned it.
In the civil wars, the Lady Chapel and several conventual buildings were pulled down and the materials sold.
The fact is that the mother attempted to prepare her daughter for a conventual life, a profession at that period of the highest honor, and one that led to preferment, not only in religious circles, but in the world of society.
Though it has not witnessed the beginnings of the conventual life, the early struggles, nor the palmy days of monasticism, it forms a connecting link between the dim past and this present time.
The legend of the foundation of the Abbey is engraved on the conventual seal in a series of scenes; and we know it was also depicted in the glass of one of the large windows in the church.
What distinction occurs in the construction of the small country churches of this style, and the larger buildings of conventual foundation?
In cathedral and large conventual churches built in the Norman style we find the crypts and aisles vaulted with stone, but not the nave or choir; and over the vaulting of the aisles was the triforium.
The chapter house and cloisters we still find remaining as adjuncts to most cathedral churches, though the conventual buildings of a domestic nature, with which the cloisters formerly also communicated, have generally been destroyed.
In old conventual churches, now no longer used as such, the stalls have been often removed from their original position to other parts of the church, and they appear to have varied in number according to that of the fraternity.
As in all conventual institutions, the inmates are required to go through quite a series of devotional exercises from morning mass to the Benediction Night Prayers.
The first Beguinage in Ghent was founded by Jeanne of Constantinople in 1233 as a place of refuge for women disciples of the church who in those evil days felt the need of protection, but did not desire to enter the conventual life.
After the triumph of the Liberal party the cathedral, university and conventual libraries of the city of Mexico came into the possession of the government, and steps were taken to form them into one national collection.
The University Library at Utrecht dates from 1582, when certain conventual collections were brought together in order to form a public library, which was shortly afterwards enriched by the books bequeathed by Hub.
The abbey was instituted by St. Philibert of Jumièges, and still other of the conventual buildings have now been incorporated into a local brewery, if such a degradation may be mentioned.
The rest of the conventual buildings, or such as remain, have been turned into a military station for cavalry mounts.
The abbey was an ancient conventual establishment for women, and their church is celebrated for its typical characteristic Norman details, though it has practically been desecrated by the untoward uses to which it has been put in our day.
This provided a rather superior class of women as organizers and directors, and a conventual life continued, throughout the entire Middle Ages, to attract an excellent class of women.
This will be understood when it is remembered that a conventual life offered to women of intellectual ability and scholarly tastes the one opportunity for an education and a life of learning.
The city and suburbs had one hundred and twenty-six small parish churches, besides thirteen greater conventual churches; and it was a model to all the world for religious observances.
A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
For the safe keeping of the conventual books the preceptor was responsible.
An extant catalogue of another Cistercian house, that of Meaux in Yorkshire, clearly indicates the whereabouts of the conventual books.
In the hastiness of the overthrow some conventualbooks were destroyed, or stolen, or sold off at low prices.
His successor, at one time the conventual archivist, loved books equally well, and got together a fair collection.
And you think this young girl, who, as I hear, has been brought up in a nunnery on the strictest conventual principles, will lend herself to be a go-between?
Though a Catholic herself, she was the widow of a Protestant, and during the course of her married life she had imbibed many heretical notions; among these figured a strong dislike to convents and the conventual system.
Her costume was of almost exaggerated simplicity, and quite conventual in its cut and fashion.
Thomas formerly belonged to the Jacobins; the conventual buildings are now used for the museum of artillery.
The conventual buildings were all destroyed in the reign of Louis XV.
The remains of theconventual buildings are now occupied by the Collège Charlemagne.
Martin still gives us some idea of a conventual foundation, and in Paris it is the only one which has survived improvements by friend and foe.
Some of the conventual buildings remain and form part of the Lycée Henri IV.
Among all of the devout women of this age living a conventual life, the most distinguished, beyond any question, was Teresa de Cepeda, who is perhaps the favorite saint of modern Spain to-day.
This time her plans of literary work were discouraged, and she was advised to burn her manuscripts as worthless paper and to content herself with the usual routine of conventual life.
Still, it must not be supposed that this tendency on the part of women to affiliate themselves with conventual orders was a movement of recent origin.
One reason for this state of affairs is to be found in the character of the women who composed these conventual orders.
Slowly, as in the case of the men, the conventual orders for women were formed in these communities and regulated by such rules as seemed best suited to their needs.
And here was an education which accorded not only with all his ideas, but with all his whims--a conventual education.
We confess a great anxiety to see this system thoroughly tried, and to know, in the course of a few years, how many will remain and die in their conventual habit.
The sober, almost conventual gray of her gown, the primly folded kerchief at her throat, the billows of lace around the graceful arm formed an exquisite note of tender colour against that glaring geranium red.
All the conventual buildings, and everything outside the actual walls of the church had been alienated, and, to a great extent, destroyed, and of the church itself but a battered torso remained.
In Fitzstephen's time there were no less than one hundred and twenty-six parish churches, besides thirteen great conventual churches.
The monk, supported by his conventual brethren, and a throng of cavaliers and more humble followers, who sought redemption under the banner of the church, was enabled to make good his word.
The number of the girls receiving education at the communal and conventual schools in Corsica is very disproportionate to that of the boys.
He took his place among the workmen, a conventual novice; a novice also as to whatever concerns any actual handicraft.
The picture would be unjust to truth, did we not recognize, what, from our knowledge of human nature, we must expect, a conventual life of far less elevated and refined order.
He would not forfeit his conventual honor, or bring a stain on his order, or, least of all, expose himself to the scoffing eye of a triumphant enemy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conventual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
