Meanings of great monasteries in English

There are in this country four great monasteries, not counting the smaller ones.

The buildings, as in all great monasteries, are distributed into groups.

Moreover, the great monasteries were each severally tricked.

In early days, there was little reading or writing, except in the shelter of the great monasteries.

The Archbishop was robed in readiness before the altar, and close around him stood the Archimandrites of the four great monasteries.

The explanation is that the national life was most vigorous in the great monasteries which were in close touch with Indian learning.

Benedict was become the oracle of the whole kingdom, and he established his reformation in many great monasteries with little or no opposition.

When all this is taken into consideration we can begin to see what the great monasteries were at the time of their dissolution.

The great monasteries were dissolved; the abbey lands were distributed partly amongst the old nobility and partly amongst the chapters of six new bishoprics.

Thirty or forty brethren composed a family of separate discipline and diet; and the great monasteries of Egypt consisted of thirty or forty families.

After visiting holy places and great monasteries, he came home, bringing with him over thirty different books on the doctrine of the Ten-Dai Sect.