The region also includes the castle in Brzeg, built during the reign of the Piast dynasty — pearl of the Silesian Renaissance, the Franciscan monastery on top of Saint Anne Mountain, as well as the mediæval defence fortifications in Paczkow ( referred to as the Polish Carcassonne ).

File: Frauenberg Fulda Gästehaus. JPG | Kloster Frauenberg ( Fulda ), a Franciscan monastery.

* The Greyfriars Tower – the remains of a Franciscan monastery in King's Lynn.

Near the Monastery of St. Ursus, a Franciscan monastery was built, and after 1280 it formed the northern city wall on the eastern part of the city.

First it was along the main street and in 1476 it moved south of the Franciscan monastery.

In 1670 Archbishop Petrus Parcevic, the apostolic vicar of Moldavia concluded an agreement with the head of the Franciscan Province of Transylvania on the return of the Bacău monastery to them in order to ensure the spiritual welfare of the local Hungarian community.

Maximilian Kolbe founded the monthly periodical Rycerz Niepokalanej in 1922, and in 1927 founded a Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanow, which became a major publishing centre.

Other sights include the 15th century former castle ( Château vieux ) and the adjacent 15th century Roman Catholic church with fine stained glass and sculptures ; a gothic former Franciscan, then Récollets, monastery with a church and a cloister ornated by 17th century frescoes ; as well as several old houses, among which the heavily decorated Maison Katz stands out.

The Franciscan monastery, il Sacro Convento, and the lower and upper church ( Basilica inferiore e superiore ) of St Francis were begun immediately after his canonization in 1228, and completed in 1253.

* The Broederkerk: a 14th-century church which originally belonged to a Franciscan monastery

The first mention of the monastery of the Franciscan Friars Minor, the Minderbroederklooster, was in 1309.

The Franciscan friary (" the " grey monastery ") and its succeeding buildings are now the Pomeranian State Museum.

Pasolini had accepted Pope John XXIII ’ s invitation for a new dialogue with non-Catholic artists, and subsequently visited the town of Assisi to attend a seminar at a Franciscan monastery there.

The city has an important cultural heritage, including a fortress and a Franciscan monastery with a rich library.

The city's Franciscan monastery dates from the 18th century, and is also Baroque in style, with exceptional architecture, especially of the church yard, and monastery church interior, with its beautiful altar and paintings.

The central town square with a number of nice buildings ( the church of the Holy Spirit, the Franciscan monastery, the Town House, etc.

In 1452 Duke Frederick the Pious of Lüneburg founded a Franciscan monastery.

Other monastic establishments include the old Franciscan cloister ( 1635 ), Basilian convent ( 1720 – 51, by Giuseppe Fontana III ), the church of the Bridgettine cloister ( 1642, one of the earliest Baroque buildings in the region ) with the wooden two-storey dormitory ( 1630s ) still standing on the grounds, and the 18th-century buildings of the Dominican monastery ( its cathedral was demolished in 1874 ).

The Franciscan monastery was donated by Jakob von Riggisberg in 1256.

In 1990, the Maharishi relocated his headquarters from Seelisberg, Switzerland to a former Franciscan monastery in Vlodrop, the Netherlands, which became known as MERU, Holland on account of the Maharishi European Research University ( MERU ) campus there.

In the 14th century, before being declared as a town, Rauma had a Franciscan monastery and a Catholic church.

* The baroque Franciscan monastery on the Hill of Our Lady Help of Christians ( Germ.

In 1938 he joined the Franciscan Order at Petrićevac monastery, Banja Luka, and took “ Tomislav ” as his religious name.

Many wallflowers are endemic to small areas, such as the Teide wallflower E. scoparium, endemic to the Teide volcano on Tenerife, E. aetnense endemic to the Etna volcano in Sicily, the Franciscan wallflower E. franciscanum, endemic to the northern California coast, the Sierra Nevada wallflower E. nevadense, endemic to the Sierra Nevada of Spain, E. moranii from Guadalupe Island ( Mexico ), and the endangered Santa Cruz wallflower E. teretifolium, endemic to the inland sandhills of Santa Cruz County, California.

1965 ), a private co-educational Franciscan college located on the grounds of Our Lady of Angels Convent, is located in the northern portion of the township.

The Albanians of Italy significantly influenced the Albanian national movement in future centuries, and Albanian Franciscan priests, most of whom were descended from émigrés to Italy, played a significant role in the preservation of Catholicism in Albania's northern regions.

Erysimum franciscanum, commonly known as the Franciscan Wallflower or San Francisco Wallflower, is a plant endemic to the northern California coast, from Sonoma to Santa Cruz Counties.

Joannes bore a high repute in the Franciscan order, and took a foremost part in the propagation of its teaching in northern Europe, holding successively the offices of warden ( custos ) in Saxony, and of provincial ( minister ) of Germany, and afterwards of Spain, perhaps of Barbary, and of Cologne.

* Convent of São Pedro de Alcântara (), a 16th century Franciscan convent established in the old Cais do Pico area of the municipal capital, centre of monastic life on the northern part of the island, until it was abandoned by the order following the Liberal Revolution of 1820.

" Several Franciscan missionary records and subsequent anthropological accounts state that “ Opata ” was borrowed from a Pima Indian word meaning “ enemy ,” the name allegedly given by the northern and southern Piman peoples to their Opatan neighbors.

Examples include the Franciscan Formation along the Coast Ranges of central and northern California and the Bay of Islands ophiolite complex in Newfoundland.

As a proof, the Franciscan coat or arms is seen on the main facade of the bell tower, the hands of Jesus and St. Francis of Assisi

The building is rich in details including a terra cotta facade with scrolls, floral designs, and whimsical faces of Franciscan padres, the order that founded the city of Ventura in 1782.

The figure of Columba looms large in any history of Dál Riata and his founding of a monastery on Iona ensured that the kingdom would be of great importance in the spread of Christianity in northern Britain.

Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.

The 17th century fortress-monastery # Buddhist monasteries | monastery on the northern edge of the city, has been the seat of Politics of Bhutan | Bhutan's government since 1952.

The 17th century fortress-monastery # Buddhist monasteries | monastery, located on the northern edge of the city, has been the seat of Politics of Bhutan | Bhutan's government since 1952.

The monastery, which is now a major teaching and retreat centre of the Southern Drukpa Kagyu order, is located at the northern end of Thimphu Valley, about from the capital.

In northern Thailand, people may carry handfuls of sand to their neighborhood monastery in order to recompense the dirt that they have carried away on their feet during the rest of the year.

In northern Italy, the monastery at Bobbio used Carolingian minuscule beginning in the 9th century.

The same day he was put into a sledge and sent as a prisoner to the far northern Ferapontov monastery.

The eastern wall passed between two defensive towers ; the northern being that of what was to become the castle Three Crowns, destroyed by fire in 1697, and the southern, of which no archaeological traces have been found, is known to have been given to the Blackfriars by King Magnus Eriksson ( 1316 – 1377 ) in 1336 and therefore was arguably located at the location for the monastery, in the southern end of Prästgatan, north of the square Järntorget.

Whatever the truth may be, the Valaam monastery was a northern outpost of Eastern Orthodoxy against the heathens and, later, a western outpost against Catholic Christianity from Tavastia, Savonia and ( Swedish ) Karelia.

He had established a monastery at Rongbuk in Tibet on the northern face of Mt.

John Hunt, the leader of the 1953 expedition and one of the first mountaineers to visit the monastery ( most, but not all, previous expeditions approached the mountain from the northern ( Tibetan ) side ), offered the following description of Thengboche in The Ascent of Everest:

The early Christian period began in the 6th Century, with 563AD being a pivotal point as it is believed that Christianity was brought to this part of northern Britain by St. Columba, when he arrived from Ireland to set up a monastery on the Island of Iona just off the south-west point of Mull.

Syon Monastery ( or Sion ), was a monastery of the Bridgettine Order founded in 1415 which stood until its demolition in the 16th c. on the left ( northern ) bank of the River Thames within the parish of Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex on or near the site of the present Georgian mansion of Syon House.

His lost work on the incarnation was discovered in 1905 in a Syriac translation in the mountains of northern Iraq in a Nestorian monastery.

Among many other religious benefactions, she and Louis founded the monastery of St Peter's ( Ste Pierre ) at Montmartre, in the northern suburbs of Paris.

The ruins of Æbelholt Abbey ( Æbelholt Klosterruin ) are the remains of the largest Augustinian monastery in the northern countries.

San Lazzaro degli Armeni (, ) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, lying immediately west of the Lido ; completely occupied by a monastery that is the mother-house of the Mekhitarist Order, the island is one of the world's foremost centers of Armenian culture.

The abbey's large " Early English " gothic church, was restored in the 1970s and in its northern aisle a model shows the monastery as it was in the fourteenth century.

The island of Inchcleraun ( Inis Cloithreann ) in the northern part of the lake is the site of a monastery founded in the early Christian era and contains the remains of several ancient churches.

He brought the area between the old Roman walls and the Rhine within the city fortifications ; and built new churches to Saint Martin of Tours within this area and to Saint Andrew just outside the northern city wall and a Benedictine monastery dedicated to St Pantaleon to the south-west of the city.

There are approximately 20 nuns currently living in the northern corner of the complex ; the rest of the monastery is open to the public.

Saint Wigbert, born in Wessex around 670, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk from the monastery of Glastonbury and a missionary and disciple of Saint Boniface who traveled with the latter in Frisia and northern and central Germany to convert the local tribes to Christianity.