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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.
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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.
Even after leaving the abbacy of Tavistock, he continued to hold two properties from the abbey until his death.
Casimir brought her with him from Prague and convinced the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Tyniec to marry them.
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.
A market was running outside the abbey from the 10th century ; it was confirmed by King John of England in 1202 and by a Royal Charter of Edward VI in 1553.
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.
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.
He granted the abbey the right to income from various tithes and to corvée labour from the surrounding countryside.
When Otto II became Holy Roman Emperor in 973 ( he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967 ), he appointed Gerbert the abbot of the monastery of Bobbio and also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Gerbert soon returned to Rheims.
Two lambs are brought from the Trappist abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome to the pope to be blessed.
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.
Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.
One manuscript indicates that a sapphire altar was among the items King Henry VIII confiscated from the abbey at its dissolution a thousand years later.
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.
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.
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An abbess ( Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot ) is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey.
Winfrid taught in the abbey school and at the age of 30 became a priest ; in this time, he wrote a Latin grammar, the Ars Grammatica, besides a treatise on verse and some Aldhelm-inspired riddles.
The name comes from the Latin monasterium and denotes the historical presence of an abbey or monastery.
The most recent scholarly work suggests that The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was “ the work of Jan de Langhe, a Fleming who wrote in Latin under the name Johannes Longus and in French as Jean le Long .” Jan de Langhe was born in Ypres early in the 1300s and by 1334 had become a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer which was about 20 miles from Calais.
* the abbot John Whethamstede is associated with the Duke of Gloucester, and Dunstaple's isorhythmic motet Albanus roseo rutilat, possibly with some of the Latin words adapted by Whethamstede from an older poem, was clearly written for St Albans, possibly for a visit to the abbey by the Duke of Bedford in 1426.
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés owes its name to an abbey founded in 638 by Queen Nanthild, regent for her son Clovis II, at a place called Fossati in Medieval Latin, Les Fossés in modern French, meaning " the moats ".
The abbey, dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and the Virgin Mary, was called Sanctus Petrus Fossatensis in Medieval Latin ( Saint Pierre des Fossés in French ), meaning " Saint Peter of the Moats ".
The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Gilles was founded during the 7th century traditionally by the hermit Saint Giles ( Latin Ægidius ), whose relics the abbey possessed.
Cellarius is the Latin form of cellerar, an office within a medieval Benedictine abbey.
* Codex Laureshamensis, volume 1 – 3 Charters of abbey Lorsch in Latin at Austrian literature online edited by Karl Glöckner, Darmstadt 1929-1936.
Travelling from the east by way of Arabic, Persian, Syriac and Greek, it was known as the book of Sindibd, and was translated from Greek into Latin in the 12th century by Jean de Hauteseille ( Joannes de Alta Silva ), a monk of the abbey of Haute-Seille near Toul, with the title of Dolopathos ( ed.
The first languages he spoke were Ukrainian and Polish, learnt from his nurse ; his first school was attached to the Czortkow Dominican abbey, where the teaching was in Latin and Polish ; and he attended private lessons in Hebrew.
Maria Laach Abbey ( in German: Abtei Maria Laach, in Latin: Abbatia Maria Lacensis or Abbatia Maria ad Lacum ) is a Benedictine abbey situated on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See ( Lake Laach ), near Andernach, in the Eifel region of the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.
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The name Hillegom is derived from the abbey named Hijlighem ( Old Frankish for " Holy Home ").
* Congregation of the Feuillants, a Catholic congregation derived from the abbey of the same name ; a monk of this order was called a Feuillant, and a nun a Feuillantine
The name is derived from the abbey of the Minoresses of St. Mary of the Order of St. Clare, founded in 1294, which stood on such sites ; a " minoress " was a nun in the Second Order of the Order of Friars Minor ( or Franciscans ).
This derived from the fact that he considered it a greater honoured to take his title from a county rather than from an abbey.
The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, the title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, from which the name Einsiedeln is also said to have originated.
The name Compton Abbas is derived from the Saxon nomenclature " cumb-ton " ( meaning ' village in a narrow valley '), plus " abbas " which refers to the abbey at Shaftesbury ( the land was owned by the abbess ).
The abbey was governed by the Arrouaisian Rule, which had been derived from the Augustinian.
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One of her projects was to develop an English language version of the office of Compline for the abbey.
The Augustian abbey became one of the most important centres of culture in the region and, in 1399, the Florian Psalter ( Psałterz Floriański ), one of the earliest texts in the Polish language, was written there by a Polish Augustinian monk.
abbey and father
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.
In 1047, Baldwin V consolidated his father ’ s victory by having his wife found a Benedictine abbey there.
In Venice, these books were kept in an abbey whose library henceforth " sparked the Renaissance ", inspired " Leonardo and Michelangelo ", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from Kublai Khan's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return.
He confirmed the grants of his father and grandfather to the abbey of St Florent in Anjou and made further grants to the abbey's dependent priory at Sele in Sussex.
She died in the abbey and was buried in the abbey church next to her father, Godfrey I, Count of Louvain, ( d. 1139 ).
An eighteenth-century woodcut of his tomb in the chapter house, with those of his brother and father beside him, survives, though the abbey is long ruined.
His father, Henri de la Halle, was a well-known Citizen of Arras, and Adam studied grammar, theology, and music at the Cistercian abbey of Vaucelles, near Cambrai.
William's father, William III, abdicated to the abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers and left the government to Fierebras.
He was buried in the abbey of Saint-Pierre at Maillezais beside his father and brother.
In the summer of 1080, along with his brothers he attested a charter for the abbey of Troarn ( Diocese of Bayeux ) by their father " for the redemption of his soul and of his relatives, and especially of his wife Mabel lately deceased ; and of his sons ".
Erispoe was a benefactor of the abbey of Redon, as his father had been ; his power base lay in the Vannetais and southeast Brittany ( even more easterly than his father ).
He studied in a church school during the Second Sino-Japanese War, but was sent to an abbey after his father suffered a stroke.
The King's son, Henry, Earl of Northumbria, who predeceased his father, was interred in the abbey in 1152.
His father, Alan fitz Flaad, acquired the abbey site, along with other large estates in Shropshire and Sussex from Rainald de Bailleul.
He succeeded his father as count of Ponthieu some time between 1105 and 1111, when he alone as count made a gift to the abbey of Cluny.
Deed of the Reichsdeputation dated February 1803 granting ownership of the secularized abbey of Ochsenhausen to Count Georg Karl von Metternich, father of Klemens von Metternich, who had lost his county of Winneburg-Bilstein when France annexed the left bank of the Rhine.
His first wife and his father were also buried in this abbey.
The Lotharingian King Zwentibold, a benefactor of the abbey and either the father or the brother of the abbesses Benedicta and Cecilia, was buried ( according to a later tradition ) in Susteren Abbey in about 900.
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