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Meanings of benedictine abbey in English

Russian
бенедектинское аббатство
Portuguese
mosteiro beneditino
Spanish
monasterio benedictino
Catalan
monestir benedictí
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Monastic community of monks of the Benedictine order.

        бенедектинское аббатство
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        Examples for "benedictine monasteries"
        Examples for "benedictine monasteries"
        1
        That remains the characteristic of Benedictine monasteries to this day.
        Christianity: the first three thousand years
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        Each of the earlier Benedictine monasteries had been an isolated community, independent and self-governing.
        Early European History
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        [Footnote 86: "Bold Mountain"- aplacein Poland, where one of the first three Benedictine monasteries was built by the king, Boleslaw Chrobry (the Valiant) 1125.
        The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
        1
        Tavistock was a Benedictine monastery, over which forty abbots ruled in succession.
        Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
        2
        These words were carved on the entrance to every Benedictine Monastery.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 / Little J...
        3
        That low building is the Benedictine monastery, and this is its little chapel.
        The Sword Maker
        4
        They take place at the Benedictine monastery, Turvey Abbey, but are not faith based.
        The Guardian
        5
        That remains the characteristic of Benedictine monasteries to this day.
        Christianity: the first three thousand years
        Usage of benedictine abbey in English
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        He was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey at Bury, in Suffolk.
        Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1
        2
        It was a Benedictine abbey, as severe in its rules as that of Clairvaux.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
        3
        Beaulieu was once the seat of a powerful Benedictine abbey.
        Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
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        Melk Benedictine abbey lies some 50 miles west of Vienna.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Kennedy came back, they got into the carriage again, and they drove to the Benedictine abbey.
        Cæsar or Nothing
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        For many, Benedictine abbeys were no longer the perfect mirror of God's purpose for the world.
        Christianity: the first three thousand years
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        From Zurich we proceeded to the Benedictine Abbey of Einfidlen, snore commonly styled Our Lady of the Hermits.
        Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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        He died soon after, without the rites of the church, and was interred secretly at a Benedictine abbey.
        Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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        It's a popular tourist destination because of Santa Maria de Montserrat, a Benedictine abbey built in the 1400s.
        Wired
        10
        Benedictine abbeys usually conformed to a common scheme as regards the planning of the church and the conventual buildings.
        Life in a Mediæval City / Illustrated by York in the XVth Centur...
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        The Benedictine abbey, being enriched with the bones of two saints, former Abbots of Cluny, became a famous pilgrimage.
        East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champa...
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        "Would you like to go to a Benedictine abbey tomorrow?" asked Kennedy.
        Cæsar or Nothing
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        He was buried with the state that became a crowned king in the Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Peter, Gloucester.
        The History of England / From the Accession of Henry III. to the...
        14
        Sweyn, in 1020, having destroyed the older monastery and ejected the secular priests, built a Benedictine abbey on its site.
        Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" ...
        15
        I was eight and a half when Léonie left school, and I took her place at the Benedictine Abbey in Lisieux.
        The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of...
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        Dressed in a brown habit, he tells us that this is the world's longest continually operating Benedictine abbey, offering hospitality since 982.
        The Guardian
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