The smaller houses identified for suppression were then visited by a further set of commissioners charged with effecting the arrangements for closure, and empowered to obtain prompt co-operation from monastic superiors by the offer of pensions and cash gratuities.

Composed between 1104 and 1107, Symeon's task ( imposed on him by his monastic superiors ) was to demonstrate the continuity of Durham's history despite the notable disruptions the community weathered during the Viking invasions and even more recently in the Norman Conquest.

Towards the end of the Second Vatican Council, superiors general of clerical institutes and abbots president of monastic congregations were authorized to permit, for a just cause, their subjects of simple vows who made a reasonable request to renounce their property except for what would be required for their sustenance if they were to depart.

Towards the end of the Second Vatican Council, superiors general of clerical institutes and abbots president of monastic congregations were authorized to permit, for a just cause, their subjects of simple vows who made a reasonable request to renounce their property except for what would be required for their sustenance if they were to depart.

Towards the end of the Second Vatican Council, superiors general of clerical institutes and abbots president of monastic congregations were authorized to permit, for a just cause, their subjects of simple vows who made a reasonable request to renounce their property except for what would be required for their sustenance if they were to depart, thus assimilating their position to that of religious with solemn vows.

In 1723 his father matriculated him into the stern Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia, which imposed the tonsure and monastic habits on its students.

The younger Gregory, who had been considering a monastic existence, resented his father's decision to force him to choose between priestly services and a solitary existence, calling it an " act of tyranny ".

The resulting inclination of these women to the monastic life and from the indulgent lasciviousness in Rome, and his unsparing criticism of the secular clergy of Rome, brought a growing hostility against him among the Roman clergy and their supporters.

He also employed Benedict of Aniane ( the Second Benedict ), a Septimanian Visigoth and monastic founder, to help him reform the Frankish church.

Paulinus rebuilt the complex, constructing a brand new basilica to Felix and gathering to him a small monastic community.

While in Rome he assisted at a council then being held concerning certain questions on " the life and monastic peace of monks ", and, on his departure, took with him to England the decree of the council together with letters from the pope to Lawrence, Archbishop of Canterbury, and to all the clergy, to King Ethelbert of Kent, and to all the English people " concerning what was to be observed by the Church of England ".

Then on the orders of the papal Chartularius, Gratiosus, Constantine was removed from his monastic cell, blinded, and left on the streets of Rome with specific instructions that no-one should aid him.

The four knights, wielding drawn swords, caught up with him in a spot near a door to the monastic cloister, the stairs into the crypt, and the stairs leading up into the quire of the cathedral, where the monks were chanting vespers.

His mother tried repeatedly to induce him to take monastic vows and renounce his succession rights in favour of his younger brothers.

Two significant differences are that when his mantle is placed on him, its hem is torn to form bands, with which his body is bound ( like Lazarus in the tomb ), and his klobuk is placed on his head backwards, so that the monastic veil covers his face ( to show that he had already died to the world, even before his physical death ).

This third wife gave him two more daughters, and Umberto attempted to return to the monastic life yet again.

But the formal establishment as a monastery seems to date to c. 997 and the community only became fully monastic from Lanfranc's time onwards ( with monastic constitutions addressed by him to prior Henry ).

Intelligent, and possessing a strong and austere character, Theodora defied her father by refusing to marry the man he had chosen to succeed him, Romanos Argyros, on the pretext that, firstly, Romanos was already married – his wife having become a monastic to allow Romanos to marry into the imperial family.

He entered the cloister in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor ; this worldly experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic life.

In Sweden in 1527 King Gustavus Vasa secured an edict of the Diet allowing him to confiscate any monastic lands he deemed necessary to increase royal revenues ; and to force the return of donated properties to the descendants of those who had donated them.

Despite the Emperor's ambitions for him, Gregory, then barely twenty years old, withdrew to Mount Athos in the year 1316 and became a novice there in the Vatopedi monastery under the guidance of the monastic Elder St Nicodemos of Vatopedi.

Although monastic chroniclers after the Norman Conquest accused him of crimes such as perjury and homicide, they do not provide any evidence of those crimes.

Constans, the eldest, was delivered to the church of Amphibalus in Winchester to " take upon him the monastic order ".

Although St-Calais is generally referred to as Saint Calais or St-Calais, the main source of information about his life, the monastic chronicle of Symeon of Durham, does not call him such.

Shortly after his move to Scotland, a variety of experiences, including a car accident that left him partially paralyzed on the left side of his body, led Trungpa to the decision to give up his monastic vows and work as a lay teacher.

And none of his biographies nor the documents of the Transmission of the Lamp, nor the Pure Land documents ( which exalt him ) refer to Zongze's collection of a monastic code.

Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward ; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu in Hampshire for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules.

Thus, one's monastic training is seen to have prepared one properly for familial, social, and civic duty and / or one's passions and unruliness of the boy are seen to have " cooled down " enough for him to be of use to a woman as a proper man.

And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

Dartford Priory was established long after the primary period of monastic foundation in England had ended.

The monastic buildings and the cloister were completed first after which construction of the church took place during the period 1638-1641 and in 1646 it was dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo.

Others also suffered: Theodulf of Orléans, in eclipse since the death of Charlemagne, was accused of having supported the rebellion, and was thrown into a monastic prison, where he died soon after – poisoned, it was rumoured.

Some may be named after this obscure pontiff, but most take their regnal name from Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Benedictine monastic movement.

Gregory maintained an interest in Bavaria ; in 726 he forced an unwilling Corbinian, after reviewing his appeal through a synod, to abandon his monastic calling, and become Bishop of Freising, in upper Bavaria.

* John Cassian, Christian theologian, settled at a monastery in Marseille ( Gaul ), he organized monastic communities after a eastern model ( approximate date ).

Allenstein was incorporated into the Kingdom of Poland during the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War in 1410 and in 1414 during the Hunger War, but was returned to the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights after hostilities ended.

The nun wears these ornaments again only on the day of her monastic jubilee, and after her death on her bier.

Orthodox priests, deacons, and subdeacons must be either married or celibate ( preferably monastic ) prior to ordination, but may not marry after ordination.

In some monastic traditions the Great Schema is only given to monks and nuns on their death bed, while in others they may be elevated after as little as 25 years of service.

Though these ancient gardens shared some of the characteristics of present-day botanical gardens, the forerunners of modern botanical gardens are generally regarded as being the medieval monastic physic gardens that originated after the decline of the Roman Empire at the time of Emperor Charlemagne ( 742 – 789 CE ).

By his unnamed wife, Theodosius III was the father of at least one son, Theodosius ( monastic name ), perhaps the bishop of Ephesus in 729 – after 754.

Furthermore, after 1378, French monasteries ( and hence alien priories dependent on them ) maintained allegiance to the continuing Avignon Papacy, and so their suppression was supported by the rival Roman Popes, conditional on all confiscated monastic property eventually being redirected into other religious uses.

However, after Cromwell's fall in 1540, Henry needed money quickly to fund his military ambitions in France and Scotland ; and so monastic property was sold off, usually at the market rate of twenty years ' income ; raising over £ 1, 400, 000 (£ as of ).

In one example, Pugin contrasted a medieval monastic foundation, where monks fed and clothed the needy, grew food in the gardens – and gave the dead a decent burial – with " a panopticon workhouse where the poor were beaten, half starved and sent off after death for dissection.

The surviving building was restored in the 1630s by his great-great-grandson John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore, who, after the early deaths of several of his children, became convinced that he should make amends for living off the proceeds of former monastic land.

It is on the assumption that he was in his teens on admission that his birth date is estimated ; some scholars suspect he may have been ten years or more older ; many monks only entered monastic life after pursuing a career in the world outside.

Stigand was later accused of simony by monastic chroniclers, but all such accusations date to after 1066, and are thus suspect due to the post-Conquest desire to vilify the English Church as corrupt and backward.

In 1536, not long after the First Suppression Act commanding the dissolution of lesser monasteries was passed, Leland lamented the spoliation of monastic libraries and addressed Thomas Cromwell in a letter seeking aid for the rescue of books.