They were taken to the great abbey of Kolotskoi, two leagues in the rear.

Every cathedral, every great abbey, and nearly every parish church claimed possession of healing relics.

The great abbey church has gone, destroyed at the Suppression, but not a little of the monastery remains.

And there, too, were Wulfhere and Wislac; and that mass in the great abbey was the most wonderful I ever heard.

It had been a royal manor when Edward the Confessor came to the throne; he gave it to his new great abbey.

He was a priest of the great abbey church of Weremouth, in Northumbria, and was a master of all the learning then known.

Farther on, we again beheld the great abbey or hospital of Kolotskoi, a sight still more hideous than that of the field of battle.

Many then looked for the spoil of the great abbey, among them Lord Lisle who besought Thomas Cromwell for it, but he was denied.

One may believe that to this day a consider- able part of the foundations of the great abbey is buried in the soil of Tours.

This place Saint Edward {386} the Confessor bestowed on the great abbey of Fecam in Normandy, which was enriched with a portion of his relics.

He will outlive many an author who slumbers in the great Abbey.

Here were the great abbeys of Peterborough and Croyland and Ely minster.

Back in the days when the great abbeys ruled England, Heptonclough had one of its own.

Baudrillart mentions educational foundations made by the great abbeys as early as in the seventh century.

When they found themselves in this predicament they were not far from the great Abbey of SS.

I would not be buried beneath a stone pavement, not to sleep in the great Abbey itself.