A mediaeval town was greatly the richer, religiously and intellectually, for having a great monastery in its suburb.
Every branch of human knowledge was useful, if not necessary, for a great monastery, and they all came to be cultivated in the great monastic schools.
We know both from the fragments of Aileran the Wise, published by Migne, and from the Irish manuscripts of St. Columban's great monastery at Bobbio, that our Irish scholars were familiar with nearly all his works.
Declan, whose name and renown spread throughout Erin because of his great and diverse miracles, he commenced to build a great monastery by the south side of the stream which flows through the island into the sea.
He erected later a great monastery in which he lived forty years and had eight hundred and eighty seven religious under his guidance and rule.
The scriptorium of a great monastery was at once the printing-press and the publishing office.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great monastery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
