This made the monastery less a career than a school for spiritual initiation.
In what is called the "Monastery of our Lord" on the Quarantania, a cell is shown with rude frescoes of Jesus and Satan.
In modern monasteries St. John of the Cross can dream sweet dreams of God in one cell, and his neighbour may be Friar Tuck, but to both the monastery is a prison.
Similar difficulties would be in the way of St. Hyacinth of Poland in, say, a monastery of Ceylon.
There was in thatmonastery a monk, who, for many years prior to his entering on a monastic life, had encouraged a vehement passion for one of the principal ladies of the city.
Ivo said, "You ought to go into a monastery and be a monk; that would be the real thing for you.
From the opposite hill, where the church of an old monastery is yet standing, a bell tolled its farewell to the worshippers who were returning to their homes.
At the door of a monastery in the little maritime town of Palos, he knocked and asked for bread and water for his son, Diego, who was accompanying him.
He was buried first at Valladolid, but his remains were soon transferred to a monastery in Seville, Spain.
The abbot began to make excuses, but Marko promised the monastery a donation of ten thousand rubles.
And henceforth Vasily lived in the monastery till he was sixteen years old, and he grew up fair of face, soft of heart, and strong in mind.
In the monastery of Miraflores, near this city, the queen of Ferdinand the Catholic built, at her expense, a rich pantheon to guard the ashes of her parents and her brother.
Other doors in the same monastery are illustrative of the second type; while all three types are represented by the doors, described herewith, which close the principal entrance to the misnamed Hall of Ambassadors in the Alcazar of Seville.
Several of his best productions are still intact, including the doorway of the church of the monastery of Santa Paula (in which he was assisted by a Spanish master, Pedro Millan), and the altar of the Catholic Sovereigns in the Alcazar.
Jose Amador de los Rios mentions, as a good example of the first of these types, a thirteenth-century door of the claustrilla in the monastery of Las Huelgas at Burgos.
Academy of History at Madrid, and proceeding from the Carthusian monastery of Val de Cristo at Segorbe.
We know that he was buried by the side of his predecessors who ruled at Ani; and we have an inscription of John Sembat by which he bestows the revenue of a village in support of the royal cemetery at this monastery of Horomos.
I may add that according to an inscription in the monastery of Uch Kilisa, near Diadin, that cloister was also restored in the seventh century.
The inscriptions establish the fact that the monastery was known by the name of Horomosi Vank, which probably signifies the convent of the Greek.
The identification of the scene of the events narrated in the text with the present monastery of Surb Karapet may be found in the geography attributed to Vardan in Saint Martin (Mémoires, etc.
He told us that we were welcome to the monastery of Mugni, and that he himself happened to be the only priest in residence.
The monastery of Marmashen, near Alexandropol, was constructed at this period by one of the Armenian princes, Vahram.
The grandfather of the priest informed us that both the monasteryand the church had been maintained up to a comparatively recent period.
Zakarea, chief of the mandatories, and of his son Shahanshah, one Tigran, of the family of Honentz, built a monastery upon this site in the hope that his good work would bring long life to his House and to the son of Zakarea.
The surroundings of the monastery are bleak and unrelieved by vegetation; the church and chapels are falling into ruin, and rise from among piles of débris.
The little monastery of St. Jacob, which, prior to the catastrophe of 1840, stood within the recesses of the gulf, probably occupied the same site when it was first erected in the early Christian times.
I have also taken a cell, that is three rooms and a garden for 35 francs a year in the Chartreuse of Valdemosa, a magnificent, immense monastery quite lonely in the midst of mountains.
They took refuge in the Chartreuse monasteryof Valdemosa, where they lived in a cell.
All this made the old monastery the most romantic place in the world.
Just as amusing as a monastery of the Moravian brotherhood," he replies.
Added to this, when the horn sounded which called people to their devotions in the churches, these strange inhabitants of the old Valdemosa monastery never took any more notice than pagans.
Later on he is in a monastery at Camaldules, talking to Trenmor and Magnus.
Among the ruined buildings of the enormous monastery there was a cloister still standing, through which the wind howled desperately.
A cell in this monastery was composed of three rooms: the one in the middle was intended for reading, prayer and meditation, the other two were the bedroom and the workshop.
To account for it, therefore, on this utterly lonely and desolate hilltop, we must look back through the centuries and see the sacred plant in the monastery garden at Askeaton--the first Geraldine home in Desmond.
Thy gallant outlaws and highwaymen will with joy the bride of Guzman greet; for, rather than wive the Rosicrucian Murkenhole, I will throw myself off Mount Damthopovit, or into the monastery of St. Kussanblastre.
Here it was, in a handsome chamber, immediately over the lofty archway, that the superior of the monastery lay buried in a brief slumber snatched from his accustomed vigils.
I remember in one monastery (but this was not in the Canton Ticino) the novice taught me how to make sacramental wafers, and I played him Handel on the organ as well as I could.
He then told Ysanjo to take from the rents of the island, which had accumulated, enough to build a monastery by that chapel, in honour of the Virgin Mary, and to endow it for thirty friars.
So a monasterywas founded at the foot of the rock, where that Chapel of the Virgin stood, wherein Amadis had prayed in his despair before he departed into the mountain.
Beltenebros then told the Hermit by what happy chance the Damsel had found him, and besought him that he would take charge of the Monastery that was to be built by his command at the foot of the rock of the Firm Island.
Sigurd Slembe, who made war on Harald and conquered him, freed Magnus from the monastery and caused him to fight in his army.
He seized Magnus in 1135, had him blinded and castrated, and sent him into the monastery at Nidarholm.
On the banks of the latter stands the monastery of Saint George, famous as having been left unmolested when the district was in the hands of the Galla, many of whom are even said to have been converted to Christianity.
Deep-seated in this retirement lies the monastery of Mantek, said to have been founded a thousand years.
A tree, which points to the monastery of Aferbeine, was adorned by the followers as they passed with the variegated feathers of the zoreet, and with fragments detached from their soiled cotton garments.
But if the criminal shall have taken timely sanctuary in the monastery of Affaf Woira, his person is held inviolate, even by the king, and the monks can generally mediate with success.
In accordance with the custom of the land, this prince is also secluded in a monastery at Medak, under the Alaka Amda Zion.
But his artful motives were thoroughly pierced by the more wily successor of Saint Peter; and vessels soon after arrived on the coast of Africa, to convey the reluctant fathers to the monastery of Saint Xavier, in Goa.
Loza forms the apex of the opposite side of the crescent, and perched on its wooded summit is a monastery forming the temporary abode of Halloo Mulakoot, heir-apparent to the throne of Shoa.
He returned to themonastery in the Val di Castro, and occupied his cell in the neighbourhood.
He passed three years in this monastery in the strictest observance of S.
Thither he was conducted by the monks of the monastery of Hypacius, singing hymns; a little hut was erected for his accommodation in a cave, with a window, through which he could receive food, and converse with his visitors.
He immediately sent off a portion of the money to the brethren of a monastery which had been just burnt down, to help towards the rebuilding, and put the remainder away for some similar purpose.
He found him a monk of the order of the Sleepless Ones,[16] in the monastery called the Studium.
When very young he was sent to the monastery of Fulda, where he was brought up.
Her corpse, in accordance with her own directions, was conveyed to the monastery at Hanbury.
Now, there stood in the midst of the monastery a very fruitful fig-tree, and the boys were in the habit of climbing it to gather and eat the luscious figs.
Peter to the Senator Pudens, which is exhibited on Easter Day, in the monastery of S.
Now it fell out that in after years Charles Martel was reconciled to his daughter, and endowed her monastery with lands, and visited her.
On one occasion, having visited themonastery of Tholey, near S.
Cuthbert went to see Elfleda in the neighbourhood of the great monastery of Whitby, to consecrate a church which she had built there, and to converse with her for the last time.
This monasteryhas stood a hundred years if it has stood a day, and won't stand much longer either," and with that he turned him back.
Yes, they passed by this way when this monastery was being built.
In 845 church, monastery and town were burnt down by the Norsemen, and two years later the see of Hamburg was united with that of Bremen and its seat transferred to the latter city.
It would seem that still earlier in the 17th century there was an organ in a monastery in Hesse with free reeds for the Posaune stop, for Praetorius gives a description of the "extraordinary" reed (p.
Michelangelo rewarded the prior of the monastery for his help in these studies by carving for him a crucifix out of wood, which revealed the benefit derived from his dissections.
He accepted with the condition that he should be allowed to live in his monastery and appear at Court only when sent for.
The great series of incidents of St. Francis' life, executed by Andrea for the Franciscan monastery of La Verna, represents the climax of his art work.
He himself is said to have tried the effect of antimony on the swine belonging to the monasteryin which he did his work, and other materials are said to have been tested in the same way.
He was a clever wood-carver and executed a tabernacle with an exquisitely carved relief of Christ on the Cross between His mother and St. John, which still may be seen in the chapel of the monastery at Landau.
As a matter of fact there was scarcely a cathedral or monastery in France at this time that did not come into the possession of beautiful tapestries that are now very precious treasures.
It was this service which Peter refused to do for the sacristan of Kennaquhair when the holy man was bearing to the monastery the Lady of Avenel's heretical book.
A monastery was afterwards founded by Ulfric Spot, Earl of Mercia, to which her body was translated, and which endured till the suppression of such institutions.
The splendour for a time was dimmed when the monastery was burnt, and the church sacked, by Hereward the Wake as an English welcome to the first Norman Abbot.
Before many years were over Wulfere himself became a Christian, and then, as a monument of sorrow and penitence, he founded a monastery at Stone, where also a nunnery was established by his queen.
Here, about the year 655, the place being then called Medeshamstede, a monastery was founded.
The Danes came and the monastery was devastated, but it was founded anew about a century before the Norman Conquest.
When the vast possessions of the monastery came to be dealt with, the prudence, if not the generosity, of James VI.
In 1083 the brethren of both Wearmouth and Jarrow were removed to Durham, and, as we have seen, both houses were reduced to cells dependent on the monastery of St. Cuthbert.
To the right, Jarrow Church and Monastery stand on a lonely eminence; to the left, the little river Don flows sluggishly into the Tyne.
In 737 it was conferred by King Ceowulph on the monastery of Lindisfarne.
I recall, too, the Mosaic Mosque, once the church of the monastery of the Chora, which stands on a hill from which Stamboul looks like a beautiful village embowered in green, cheerful and gaily fascinating.
An ancient pear attributed to the garden of the Chartreux Monastery at Paris about the middle of the eighteenth century.
An old pear grown in the gardens of the Monastery of Chartreux, Paris, and stated in the catalog of that institution, of 1736, to be identical with the pear Bugiarda of Italy.
And Ado says, "The Franks cast Theodorick out of the Kingdom, shaved Ebroinus in the Monastery of Lexovium, and afterwards raised Childerick to be King over them.
It was a monastery of “Cordeliers,” burnt down in ‘93.
By their good deeds they must very quickly have won the respect of the Londoners, for some gave them more lands, and others helped in building a church and monastery for them.
I have no such story to tell you of the Grey Friars, for they gave up to the King their monastery and all they possessed when he called on them to do so.
This monasterywas close to the place where the London General Post Office now stands.
Here Sir Walter Manny and the Bishop of London of that time founded another monastery for twenty-four monks and a Prior or chief monk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monastery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
