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Meanings of benedictine monasteries in English

Russian
бенедектинское аббатство
Portuguese
mosteiro beneditino
Spanish
monasterio benedictino
Catalan
monestir benedictí
Wikidata

Monastic community of monks of the Benedictine order.

        бенедектинское аббатство
        Synonyms
        Examples for "benedictine monastery"
        Examples for "benedictine monastery"
        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
        1
        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
        4
        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
        Usage of benedictine monasteries in English
        1
        That remains the characteristic of Benedictine monasteries to this day.
        Christianity: the first three thousand years
        2
        Each of the earlier Benedictine monasteries had been an isolated community, independent and self-governing.
        Early European History
        3
        [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