But in their own times they were far from useless; their monasteries were ever ready to receive the wearied traveller, and many persons of family, tho' of broken fortunes were honorably maintained at their board.
After the dissolution of the monasteries both Newark Priory and St. Martha's shrine fell into ruins, and the chapel was only restored of late years.
It was now quite dark, the stars were coming out, and the bells of the two monasteries on opposite sides of the lake were ringing the first hour of night.
It was on the dissolution of the monasteries in the time of Henry the Eighth that it fell into ruin.
He then at once gave me permission to ride to those two richmonasteries and afterwards to return to my own country.
The second of the four portions was given to the two monasteries which he had built, and to those who therein had dedicated themselves to God's service, as we have mentioned above.
And at about the time of the Saxon invasion St. Patrick was founding churches andmonasteries in Ireland, and was baptizing whole clans of the Irish at a time.
He rebuilt the ancient Westminster Abbey in London and erected churches and monasteries in different parts of England.
We find that people outside the monasteries work enough, however, but fail to pray, so it would seem that prayer is a particularly important factor for monastic longevity, at least.
Those massive walls up there of monasteries and convents always formed part of the picture of my imagination.
SAN PABLO] The contents of the museum are mostly objects which the French plundered from the churches and monasteries of Castile, and were recovered after their disastrous defeat at Vitoria.
The church, and monasteries of El Parral, El Paular, and the Escorial owning immense flocks.
These trees are first carried in procession, and afterwards given to monasteries on the occasion of certain festivals or the funerals of Buddhist monks.
There are no monasteries now in this district, but the ravines still contain both Taoist and Buddhist temples, each with its priest or two, and it is easy to see that the Buddhists have generally secured the most charming sites.
The monasteries of Weihaiwei, then, were always small--none probably harbouring more than six to twelve monks.
The only true Buddhists are the monks of the great monasteries (to be found chiefly south of the Yangtse) and the people of certain localities where monastic influences happen to be strong.
Including the dissolution of the monasteries and the confiscation of the chantry lands in 1549 by Edward VI, about one-fifteenth of the land of England changed hands at this time.
At the dissolution of the monasteries there was a vineyard at Barking Nunnery.
The monasteries which were there founded were established, according to the words of their charters, amid immense solitudes; and the French nobles only came into Brabant for the sport of bear-hunting in its interminable forests.
The new prelates, on a pretended principle of economy, were endowed with the title of abbots of the chief monasteries of their respective dioceses.
Many valuable manuscripts were destroyed at the dissolution of the monasteries in the time of Henry VIII.
These marauders destroyed many of the monasteries and silenced the voices of the singers.
There are a great number of such monasteriesin the realm, and the Emperor's Majesty rideth oftentimes from one to another of them, and lieth at them three or four days together.
I have been in one of the monasteries called Troities, which is walled about with brick very strongly, like a castle, and much ordnance of brass upon the walls of the same.
Whatever advantages in a general way the dissolution of the monasteries may have had, its consequences, so far as regards the libraries, which the monks considered as among their most cherished possessions, were disastrous beyond measure.
The dissolution of the monasteries is the genesis of book-collecting in London.
At St. Albans, for example, over eighty were transcribed under Whethamstede during this reign, a number which is peculiarly interesting when the degeneracy of the monasteries is remembered.
The monasteries were the sole repositories of literature; to the monk alone had the written book any kind of intelligence, any species of pleasure.
The dissolution of the monasteries had among its many effects the creation, so to speak, of a large number of collectors.
The very palaces and monasteries were spoiled by the barbarians from the Balkans.
Though the churches, as well as the houses, glittered with mosaics and gems, the asceticism which the many monasteries kept always visibly before the eyes of the people, had its influence among the rich as well as the poor.
As the incursion of the barbarians became more dangerous many took refuge in the capital; and yearly the churches grew in importance, and the monasteries attracted more religious.
Monasteries are also very prominent in Burma, and they are usually boys' schools, both for young and adult people.
There are fine columns and many remains of the King's palace still standing; in addition to which, the monasteries and tanks all show artistic skill.
Here we had a picnic luncheon and then drove some distance to the heights of Otsu, where one hundred and thirty monasteries and temples are said to be grouped.
From the high hill at Mandalay, one may gain an excellent general view of the many pagodas and monasteries in which the city abounds; for this is verily the land of the pagoda.
The support of the Buddhist monasteries depends on charity, and a procession of priests from each monastery goes about with mendicant bowls or baskets, each morning soliciting food and fruit, everything being placed in one receptacle.
As the monasteries became rich the monks became corrupt--first comfortable, then luxurious, then licentious.
He founded the monasteries of Barking and Chertsey.
Unlike so many of his fellow poets, who retired to monasteries and there lived out their lives in seclusion, Folquet displayed special talents or [80] special enthusiasm for the order which he joined.
Other pictures are scattered about in the churches, monasteries and private palaces.
He had agents who ransacked the monasteries of Europe, and he collected the literary relics which had escaped destruction in the sack of Constantinople.
The Benedictine monasterieshad preserved classical manuscripts--especially the monastery of Monte Cassino for the southern, and that of Fulda for the northern parts of Europe.
Besides the large numbers of monks and nuns who peopled the innumerable monasteries and convents, a large part of the population belonged to some semi-ecclesiastical association.
In Bavaria, it was said that there were more monasteries than monks.
They boasted about him in their monkish fashion, and in all the monasteries around, and as far away as Grimma, the monks and nuns talked about the young saint in the Erfurt convent.
Their monasterieswere usually placed in large towns; and their devout lives, their learning, and the popular gifts of their preachers, made them favourites with the townspeople.
He denounced relic worship, pilgrimages, buying indulgences, and the corruptions in the monasteries and convents.
But the visitation of the Saxon monasteries was put in force in spite of the protests of the ecclesiastical powers.
Church property paid its share of the communal taxes, and even the monasteries and convents were liable to civil inspection.
The churches and chapels, monasteries and religious houses, received all kinds of offerings from rich and poor alike.
These monasteries and their sister establishments were schools of learning as well as libraries, and we read of more than one where the study of some of the classical authors was part of the regular training.
The most that can be said for the fourteenth century in this respect is that slightly stronger scruples protected churches and monasteries than the lives of women and children.
Oblations of monasteries are made in a similar way.
Moreover he built himself in every place throughout the territory of the Decies, churches and monasteries and not alone in his own territory (did he build) but in other regions of Ireland under tribute to him.
They afterwards became consecrated religious and within what to-day is his parish he built them cells and monasteries which the holy virgins placed under his protection and jurisdiction.
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