The abbey is a species of " exempt religious " in that it is, for the most part, answerable to the Pope, or to the abbot primate, rather than to the local bishop.

In some cases, this is the result of an abbey being considered the " mother " of several " daughter " abbeys founded originally as dependent priories of the " mother.

An abbess ( Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot ) is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey.

An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.

La Grande Chartreuse is a Carthusian abbey north of Grenoble, France

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

In the Roman Catholic Church according to the norms of the Code of Canon Law 1983 a Benedictine abbey is a " religious institute ", and its professed members are therefore members of the " Consecrated Life ", commonly referred to as " Religious ".

' Stoverij ' is a classic Flemish meat stew, preferably made with a generous adittion of brown ' Trappist ' ( strong abbey beer ) and served with French fries.

The plot is usually set in a castle, an abbey, a monastery, or some other, usually religious edifice, and it is acknowledged that this building has secrets of its own.

The major part of the action in the Romance of the Forest is set in an abandoned and ruined abbey and the building itself served as a moral lesson, as well as a major setting for and mirror of the action in the novel.

For example, Adeline is reading the illegible manuscripts she found in her bedchamber ’ s secret passage in the abbey when she hears a chilling noise from beyond her doorway.

Matilda bore him three sons, one called Otto, and two daughters, Hedwig and Gerberga and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.

Starting in 1717, he is documented as working in Bavaria in the Castle of Nymphenburg ( 1719 ); in the castle of Schleissheim ( 1725 – 1729 ); and in the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren.

Jacobus de Voragine gives the common account of the transfer of the relics of Mary Magdalene from her sepulchre in the oratory of Saint Maximin at Aix-en-Provence to the newly founded abbey of Vézelay ; the transportation of the relics is entered as undertaken in 771 by the founder of the abbey, identified as Gerard, duke of Burgundy.

In line 700, Gawain is said to pass the " Holy Head ", believed by many scholars to be either Holywell or the Cistercian abbey of Poulton in Pulford.

It is the second Medicean manuscript, 11th century and from the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, which is the oldest surviving copy of the passage describing Christians.

* 1136: Suger begins rebuilding the abbey church at St Denis north of Paris, which is regarded as the first major Gothic building.

* June – Frederick is sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde to mediate between the claims of Bernard, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz, concerning the control of the abbey of Gandersheim.

* When a Chinese prince ( later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ) is made crown prince, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang ' an is converted into a Daoist abbey.

* The first reference to the windmill in Europe is made by a Dean Herbert of East Anglia, whose mills are supposedly in competition with the abbey of Bury St Edmunds.

In 1017 Henry II also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg (" Mount St. Michael "), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy.

Another abbey was founded by King Offa of Mercia in 793.

Talley Abbey was the first Premonstratensian abbey in Wales, while Llanllyr was a Cistercian nunnery, only the second nunnery to be founded in Wales and the first to prosper.

Willibrord fled to the abbey he had founded in Echternach ( in modern-day Luxemburg ) while Boniface returned to Nursling.

In 742, one of his disciples, Sturm ( also known as Sturmi, or Sturmius ), founded the abbey of Fulda not far from Boniface's earlier missionary outpost at Fritzlar.

Louis also founded the Fraumünster abbey in 853 for his daughter Hildegard.

In 1590 it was taken over by a female order of Benedictines from Chełmno, who founded an abbey there in 1617.

Finglas was originally the site of an Early Christian abbey, the origin of which has been associated, from early times, with the name of St. Cainnech, or Canice, the patron of Kilkenny, said to have founded it in 560 A. D.

The abbey at Stavelot was founded ca 650 on the domain of a former villa near Liège and the abbey of Vézelay had a similar founding.

* A Benedictine abbey is founded at Sherborne.

While his father had founded only one monastery ( Otto I later replaced the abbey with the Cathedral of Magdeburg ) during his 37 years of reign.

Henry designated Westminster, where St Edward had founded the abbey, as the fixed seat of power in England and Westminster Hall duly became the greatest ceremonial space of the kingdom, where the council of nobles also met.

This is based on the fact that St. Augustine founded an abbey ( within the current school's grounds ) where it is known that teaching took place.

Llywelyn died at the Cistercian abbey of Aberconwy, which he had founded, and was buried there.

* Badìa Fiorentina, an abbey in Florence, Italy, is founded by Willa, Margravine of Tuscany.

The abbey of Les Echarpes was founded in 1626.

The city was quarried for building material when medieval St Albans was founded ; indeed, much of Norman abbey was constructed from the remains of the Roman city, with Roman brick and stone visible.

The presence of Scone two miles ( 3 km ) northeast, the main royal centre of the Kingdom of Alba from at least the reign of Kenneth I mac Ailpín ( 843 – 58 ), later the site of the major Augustinian abbey of the same name founded by Alexander I ( 1107 – 24 ), enhanced Perth's early importance.

The abbey was founded by Britons, and dates to at least the early 7th century, although later medieval Christian legend claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.

Within two weeks Warren was ringing the bell at the abbey gate.

The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for certain of the faithful on November 2 was first established by St. Odilo of Cluny ( d. 1048 ) at his abbey of Cluny in 998.

" Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d ' Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube.

Also built at that time was an abbey of canons regular, now mostly ruined.

According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

If Columbanus's abbey at Bobbio in Italy became a citadel of faith and learning, Luxeuil in France became the nursery of saints and apostles.

His body has been preserved in the abbey church at Bobbio, and many miracles are said to have been wrought there through his intercession.

She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life based in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

Hedwig and her daughter-in-law, Henry's II widow Anna of Bohemia, established a Benedictine abbey at the site of the battle in Legnickie Pole, settled with monks coming from Opatovice in Bohemia.

Thus, Alexander remained in command of the 15th Army Group, and, with the support of numerous allied commanders, controversially authorised the bombing of the historic abbey at Cassino, which resulted in little advance on the German Winter Line defences.

* 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.

Depiction of Jonah in a champlevé enamel ( 1181 ) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, Austria.

His stay at this abbey, which lengthened to a full year, was cited by the abbot after the war when the monastery was accused by Heinrich Böll and others of collaboration with the Nazis.

Her and Henry's mortal remains are buried at the crypt of the St. Servatius ' abbey church.

Mary Magdalene's relics were first venerated at the abbey of Vézelay in Burgundy.

Edith loved the town and often lived there ; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice, later rebuilt as the cathedral.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.