The Madonna in some degree recalls the much more beautiful one Pintoricchio afterwards painted for the monks of Monte Oliveto.
Signs a contract with the monks of Santa Maria degli Angeli, to supply an altar-piece.
Round him gather themonks of the order, beggars, women and children.
In the next few months, an altar-piece for the monks of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli must have been under discussion; for in February 1496 the contract was signed for the great polyptych now in the Gallery at Perugia.
His finest work in tempera is the great polyptych or ancona, painted in 1498 for the monks of Santa Maria dei Fossi, and which is an extraordinarily dainty piece of work.
In the middle, under the window, two monks recount a history to three lay listeners, two of whom are evidently portraits, while a procession of horsemen rides across the background.
Among the most beautiful of the Madonna paintings is the "Assumption," executed during the later years at Siena for the monks of Monte Oliveto, and now at San Gemignano.
The mikados began to abdicate after short reigns, to shave off their hair to show that they renounced the world and its vanities, to become monks and spend the remainder of their days in the cloister.
The monks here were numbered by thousands, with whom religious service was a gorgeous ceremonial mockery, and who revelled in luxury, feasted on forbidden viands, drank to inebriety, and indulged in every form of licentiousness.
This, however, was but an apparent civilisation; and its benefits only extended to the monks themselves.
It lays injunctions on their dress; it places episcopal palaces in the market for sale, also the buildings still occupied by monks and nuns.
Divine Providence has sent me to avenge the wrongs of the monks upon the whole set of you.
The monks were delighted to see the fresh water, but still more the pork; for there is no animal to whom food comes amiss.
On its banks stood the mills of the monks of St. John and St. Mary, dependencies of the Abbey of Bermondsey, which were worked by it.
Soon the monks in the belfry will awake and ring the Galilee-bell.
The hospitals were closed--that should bring a picture to your eyes--where the streets had been thronged with the doctors of the poor and of the rich in their habits, no monks or lay brothers were to be seen.
Then, as the monks search 7 feet below the surface, a spade rings upon stone.
It bears marks of blood with which it was sprinkled when the monkswere massacred by the heathen Saxons, at the instigation of Austin the Pope’s missionary in Britain.
The grand curiosity is a manuscript Codex containing a Latin synopsis of Scripture which once belonged to the monks of Bangor Is Coed.
Because the monks built their house here in the old time, and the monks never built their houses except on good land.
They were horrible times—times in which there were monks and friars and graven images, which people kissed and worshipped and sang pennillion to.
Do you not also think that God could now, under the papacy, have preserved his own, even though the priests and monks of Christendom have been teachers of the devil and gone to hell?
I answer: I know very well that the priests and monks seek this cloak for their blasphemies.
He came agayne and dwelled in the abbaye of Ludene of Whyte Monks in Irlonde, and tolde of joycs and of paynes that he had seen.
He was told that he was one of the monks of the convent; that he was in Purgatory, and had yet to endure this fiery armor for ten years more, for having injured the reputation of another.
The place of her interment was a monastery erected by Aurelius Ambrose, the uncle of King Arthur, "for the maintenance of three hundred monks to pray for the souls of the British noblemen slain by Hengist.
And, of course, this was many years, even centuries, before the Feast of All Souls was instituted by the Abbot Odilo and the monks of Cluny in 998.
Within a few weeks he died, his body was interred with proper solemnity in the Church; and his memory was long cherished with gratitude by the monks of Ramsey.
He was buried in the midst of the choir as a founder of the church; and as this interment marked out Wells as the chief church in the diocese, the monks of Bath were not told of his death till after he had been buried.
On Jocelin's death in 1242, the monks of Bath made a last effort to recover the supremacy which had drifted from them.
In irregular groups, amid a low murmur of conversation, the monksleft their devotions, now ended for another day.
The monks had placed his body on a bier, on each side of which two tall wax tapers burned in their sconces.
As for the long rows of kneeling monks about him, they seemed to Francesco to differ not at all from those he had known and met in the monasteries of Apulia, or those he had seen in the Augustinian monastery of San Cataldo.
You bid me regard the monks in Italy as holy people in the midst of an evil world?
Of themonks he had left he thought without regret.
His move was not instantly perceived, but when he was heard to call upon one of the monks for a blessing, there was a general stir at the board.
Few of the monks felt energy enough to go about their usual half-hearted pastimes, and nearly all had retired to their cells in comatose languor.
When the Prior and his companion entered here, the monks were already assembled.
But ere he reached the port of Bari, whence he was to embark for the Holy Land, he fell prey to a malignant fever, which compelled him to forego his journey and to place himself under the care of the monks of San Cataldo.
One of the monks was engaged in expounding some dogma to his companions who obviously paid little heed to his words.
From the practice of reading to the assembled canons or monks a capitulum or chapter of their rule, or of the Scriptures, the men themselves came to be called in a body the capitulum or chapter, and their meeting-place the chapter-house.
Mohammedans, a member of one of the numerous orders of monks who profess poverty and lead an austere life.
Indians were got together, and just as the troops and the monks were on the point of setting off on their march to the woodlands.
As a result of these wranglings two Creole monks were finally sent to Zaclun.
I mind me I had a cousin, living in Boston, when there came to the gates one night a party of monks wanting room in the monastery.
His buffoonery was not merely Brutus' rough stick, which contained a rod of gold: it was necessary as an amulet against the monks and legates.
The monks knew well how to turn so valuable a possession to account.
In his excessive zeal he would not even allow the Cistercian monks of Beaupre to retain in their service a Protestant shepherd, though they pleaded hard that he was the best shepherd whom they had ever had.
In 862 we have Charles the Bald making to the monks of St. Denis a grant of ninety boisseaux d'epeautre a year pour faire de la cervoise.
A staunch friend to the Pope, but at the same time strictly loyal to the Emperor, he managed to overcome resistance, say the monksof Weingarten, "by liberality and graciousness rather than by cruelty and force.
The bridge is not quite the only lion at Alcantara, and the grand Benedictine convent of its old military monks rises most imposingly upon the edge of the impending moors.
Of course, there are such cloisters--but not here in Monreale, where the glorious sunshine bathes all that is left of the monastery King William erected for his Benedictine monks beside the Cathedral.
At each outburst of the rasping din, the monks aloft--seemingly quite undismayed by the sacrilege--kindly sang with greater zeal that they might not hear our profane noises.
We are apt to think of cloisters as gloomy, forbidding places, where half frozen monks with blue lips and hair shirts shiver about their religious tasks and wish--if they are human!
This subway full of mummies is divided into several sections, the men and women segregated from each other and from the monks and priests, who have a gallery apart.
The monks must prepare all their food with their own hands, and no lay person, male or female, may enter their houses.
Education is in the hands of the monks and priests, and is confined to boys.
A subordinate establishment was also founded by Felix in Paris near a chapel dedicated to St Mathurin, on which account hismonks were also called St Mathurins.
King of France, whereby the custody of the Holy Places in Palestine had been committed to the monks of the Latin Church, who were placed under the protection of the Crown of France.
The monks sustained an assault rather than relinquish their prey: if they saw themselves losing ground, they brought to their walls the relics of some saint.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
