At an early age he joined the order of the Camaldolese ( part of the Benedictine monastic family ) and entered the Monastery of San Michael in Murano, near Venice.

The Venerable Bede states that Erconwald, who became Bishop of London in 674, founded the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter of Chertsey in 666, and Frithuwald, who was sub-king or regent of Surrey, joined in the grant endowing the abbey with certain lands.

Serlo de Percy, the founder's brother, joined Reinfrid at the new monastery which followed the Benedictine rule.

A group from the Benedictine school Douai started to sing a rugby club favourite – the gospel hymn " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " – in honour of their new hero, large sections of the crowd joined in.

Instead he joined the Benedictine abbey of Beuron and chose the name Willibrord.

Sparry was born in Graz, and joined the Benedictine order.

In 738, Lullus joined the Benedictine order and the monastery of Fritzlar, founded by Boniface in 732, where abbot Saint Wigbert was his teacher.

He joined the Benedictine order at the age of 14, and had taken classes in Galicia, León, and Salamanca.

The Sylvestrine monks operated as a completely autonomous congregation for most of their history, until they joined the Benedictine Confederation in the mid-20th century.

This placed the congregation under the general supervision of the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order, and joined them to the life of the entire Order throughout the world.

Since they joined the Benedictine Confederation, however, that practice is often not followed.

As a young girl, she joined the Benedictine monastery of St. Mary at Helfta, under the direction of its abbess, Gertrude of Hackeborn.

Communities of Benedictine women are joined in sixty-one congregations and federations that are associated with the Confederation, although they do not have full membership.

Most of the Benedictine monasteries of France, except those belonging to Cluny, gradually joined the new congregation, which eventually embraced nearly two hundred houses.

At the age of 18, he joined the order of monks at the Benedictine college of Ampleforth, but after two months it became clear that this was not the vocation for him and he returned to Liverpool to pursue medicine, qualifying in 1937.

In the following year he joined the Benedictine Order and made his vows at St Martin's Abbey in Compostella on 26 April 1600.

In 989, the two journeyed to Rome where they joined the Benedictine monastery of Sts.

He joined the Benedictine community of Durham Abbey about 1332 and was sent to London in 1337.

In 1605 he joined the Benedictine Order at the Abbey of St Justina, Padua, taking the religious name " Augustine ", but ill health obliged him to postpone his religious profession, and he returned home to find his father on the point of death.

In common with most other German Benedictine houses, Laach declined during the 14th century in terms of its spiritual and monastic life, a tendency which was reversed only in the late 15th century, under the influence of the reforming Bursfelde Congregation, which the abbey joined, supported against a certain resistance within the abbey by Abbot Johannes V von Deidesheim ( 1469 – 1491 ).

He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

Probably as a juvenile he joined the Cistercian Order at newly established Kołbacz ( Kolbatz ) Abbey and in 1209 entered Oliwa Abbey near Gdańsk, founded in 1178 by the Samboride dukes of Pomerelia.

Guitarist Kevin Quirion of Order of Ennead joined the band in the summer of 2009.

Settling down near the New Forest, he joined an occult group, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, through which – he claimed – he encountered the New Forest coven, into which he was initiated in 1939.

Unperturbed and hoping to learn more of Rosicrucianism, Gardner joined the group in charge of running the theatre, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, and began attending meeting's held in their local ashram.

" Gardner's biographer Philip Heselton theorised that this group consisted of Edith Woodford-Grimes ( 1887 – 1975 ), Susie Mason, her brother Ernie Mason, and their sister Rosetta Fudge, all of whom had originally come from Southampton before moving to the area around Highcliffe, where they joined the Order.

Since at least the 18th century Freemasonry has incorporated Templar symbols and rituals in a number of Masonic bodies, most notably, the " Order of the Temple " the final order joined in " The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta " commonly known as the Knights Templar.

The new master of the Order Cuno of Haciginstein organised the last campaigns against the Semigallians in 1289 and 1290 ; the hillforts of Dobele, Rakte and Sidarbe were conquered and most of the Semigallian warriors joined the Samogitian and Lithuanian forces.

In early life, he joined the Dominican Order, in which he acquired great fame as a preacher.

As a young man he joined the Franciscan Order, an unlikely choice for a political career, and his intellectual qualities were revealed while he was studying philosophy and theology at the University of Pavia.

After Cardassia joined the Dominion, an organization similar to the Obsidian Order was formed, which was called the Cardassian Intelligence Bureau.

Around 1480, Vasco da Gama followed his father ( rather than the Sodrés ) and joined the Order of Santiago.

In 1451 the town council joined the Prussian Confederation that was fighting against the Teutonic Order, but bishop Kaspar Linke expelled the councilors and confiscated their property.

It is widely assumed that he had reached the age of 15 upon his access, though it has been recently suggested that he may have joined the Order as a child.

Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in January 1891 after being introduced by E. W.

Some sources state that at a young age he joined the Carthusian Order.

On 2 June 1686 Chartres was invested with the Order of the Holy Spirit at Versailles ; on the same day his future brother-in-law, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine, also joined the order as did his cousins Louis III, prince de Condé and François Louis, Prince de Conti.

Grenfell joined the army in 1910, and was awarded a Distinguished Service Order in 1914.

He was ordained a priest in 1808 and joined the Dominican Order in 1817.

In 1256 Innocent's successor Alexander IV called together various other hermit groups from around the world and ultimately joined them to this existing Augustinian Order.

He then joined the Dominican Order and studied theology, and became regent at Oxford University before 1261, probably by 1245.

Richards has so far been featured in four series as an attorney: Richards joined the cast of NBC's Law & Order spin-off Conviction as Billy Desmond, the undefeated New York City Assistant District Attorney.

Born in Sélestat, Alsace, he joined the Dominican Order at an early age and while still a young man was appointed Prior of the Dominican house of his native town.