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Example sentences for "religious house"

  • The small church is partly Norman, and in the walls of Court House Farm are the remains of a religious house.

  • A most interesting fact recorded by the Venerable Bede is that when Wilfrid of York came here in 681 he found a religious house ruled by a monk named Dicul.

  • A religious house dedicated to St. Andrew is conjectured to have existed at one time in or near the village.

  • Happy for the wounded knight if there were a religious house at hand, for there he was sure to find kind hospitality and such surgical skill as the times afforded.

  • For the custom of admitting to the fraternity of a religious house, see p.

  • The church of Belleau is said, by Gough, to have been attached to the neighbouring monastery of Ailby; but neither Tanner nor the Monasticon mention such a religious house.

  • Llancarvan, in this vicinity, was once the seat of a religious house, said to have been founded by Cadoc the Wise, in the 6th century.

  • It is understood to have derived its name and origin from a religious house, which was founded here about the year 650, by St. Bega, an Irish nun of great sanctity.

  • All this time reports and messages as to the approach of the end of the world kept pouring into Compostela from Libagánon, so that it was not long before my informant was invited to establish a religious house in Compostela.

  • Ceremonial ladder for a religious house, ceremonial chair, and sacred image.

  • They constructed a religious house of very fine appearance and faithfully fulfilled all the other behests of the Magbabáya.

  • The only change was that the lord of the manor might be a society or religious house instead of a baron.

  • But it was quite a common thing for the king to make a grant of an annual fair to a religious house which he wanted to benefit without much cost to himself, and the profits of the fair went to support the house.

  • But it was quite a common thing for the king to make a grant of an annual fair to a religious house which he wanted to benefit, without much cost to himself, and the profits of the fair went to support the house.

  • A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

  • Defn: One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

  • The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

  • Defn: A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London.

  • This very day, therefore, you must open their eyes to the divine light, and place them in a religious house.

  • The ruins of this once important and richly endowed religious house stand in a fertile district watered by an estuary of the sea, and are surrounded by the romantic and wild country so characteristic of the northern counties.

  • THE ABBOT The title abbot (abbas) means father, and was used from the earliest times as a title appropriate to designate the superior of a religious house, as expressing the paternal qualities which should characterise his rule.

  • St. Martin founded a religious house at Liguge, near Poitiers; and when about A.

  • A true prior, it is frequently remarked in the old Custumals, is a blessing to a religious house, and his presence is like that of an angel of peace.

  • But a purty thing for you and the world to stickle at the Pope's playing at cards at a religious house of Irish; och!

  • It is very suitable for a religious house.

  • Then like a flash a new thought invaded his mind--If the Senor Doctor disappeared forever, why not induce the Senora and her daughters to go into a religious house?

  • Will you promise me to have nothing to do whatever with Fray Ignatius; and to resist every attempt he may make to induce you to go into a religious house of any kind?

  • Even where the benefice had not been appropriated to a religious house, it often happened that some "portion" of the profits of the benefice--e.

  • Oswald gave Aidan the Isle of Lindisfarne as the site of a religious house to be a centre of missionary work in Northumbria.


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