At Bobbio the saint repaired the half-ruined church of St. Peter, and erected his celebrated abbey, which for centuries was stronghold of orthodoxy in Northern Italy.

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

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.

A new St. Mary's church was built within the new town before the 1260s, while St. Mary's in the former Pomeranian stronghold was turned into a nuns ' abbey.

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

The predecessor of the cathedral was a church built in 937 within an abbey, called St. Maurice.

In the sixteenth century his body was removed to the abbey church, and again translated in 1890.

On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.

The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.

The initial grant for the abbey was signed by Carloman, the son of Charles Martel, and a supporter of Boniface's reform efforts in the Frankish church.

His remains were eventually buried in the abbey of Fulda after resting for some time in Utrecht, and they are entombed within a shrine beneath the high altar of Fulda Cathedral, previously the abbey church.

Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures.

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

* Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of the Franks at Saint-Denis outside Paris ; also dedicates the foundations of the new abbey church.

The small church in which he was baptized stood in the vicinity of the subsequent abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, and a statue of him being baptized by Saint Remigius can be seen there.

The abbey church, rebuilt and decorated with the utmost splendor, was consecrated in 1071 by Pope Alexander II.

Abbot Desiderius sent envoys to Constantinople some time after 1066 to hire expert Byzantine mosaicists for the decoration of the rebuilt abbey church.

The crypt of the original abbey church still holds those relics, but the church itself has been subsumed into a Baroque renovation.

A small, 9th century chapel remains standing within walking distance of the church, as do the foundations of a later women's abbey.

This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in Llanrwst parish church.

Abbot Alexander with twelve Cistercian monks from Fountains went to Barnoldswick and after demolishing the existing church attempted to build the abbey on Henry de Lacy's land.

* Examples of the Romanesque basilica style are the church of Obermünster, dating from 1010, and the abbey church of St. Emmeram, built in the 13th century, remarkable as one of the few German churches with a detached bell tower.

Returning to Molesme, he left the government of the new abbey to Saint Alberic, who died in the year 1109.

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.

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.

At this time, under the abbot Gilduin, Saint Victor was a thriving community and upon Gilduin ’ s death, the abbey had 44 dependant houses of canons.

Saint Martin's monastery benefited from its inception, at the very start of the 6th century from patronage and support from the Frankish king, Clovis, which increased considerably the influence of the saint, the abbey and the city in Gaul.

* Saint Sturm establishes the abbey of Fulda ( or 744?

* Saint Comgall founds an abbey in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

* Saint Hilda founds an abbey on the Yorkshire coast at Whitby.

Meanwhile Saint Lullus, successor of Boniface as archbishop of Mainz, tried to absorb the abbey into his archbishopric, but failed.

The Plan of Saint Gall, the ground plan of an unbuilt abbey, providing for all of the needs of the monks within the confines of the monastery walls.

In 1244, King Louis IX of France ( Saint Louis ) and his mother Blanche of Castile visited the abbey.

The Lives of Dewi Sant ( David, the patron saint of Wales ), Saint Cadoc and Saint Gildas report that Gildas visited the abbey of Ty Gwyn in 527 or 528 and objected to Dewi / David being placed in charge of it at such a young age.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis (, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis ) is a large medieval abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris.

Dagobert died in the abbey of Saint-Denis and was the first Frankish king to be buried in the Saint Denis Basilica, Paris.

Brother Mark ( Monk's Hood, The Leper of Saint Giles and The Summer of the Danes ) worked with Cadfael in the herbarium on joining the abbey.

Jakova (" Abbey of Saint James "), from which the town derives its name ( opatija means " abbey " in Croatian ) is located in Park Svetog Jakova or Saint James's Park.

St Benet's Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Order of Saint Benedict situated on the River Bure within The Broads in Norfolk England.

In 968 she donated all her property to the abbey of Saint Remigius in Reims.

* The town ’ s main church ( Saint Peter ) was erected in 1755 on the site of a much older building and perpendicular to it, with funds from the abbey of Forest.

Saint Nicholas and Saint Denis ( gone 18th century ) were the two other parish churches and possessions of the Norbertine abbey of Saint Nicholas.