Saint Gilbert of Sempringham ( about 1083 – 4 February 1190 ) became the only Englishman to found a conventual order, mainly because the abbot of Cîteaux declined his request to assist him in helping a group of women living with lay brothers and sisters, in 1148 In turn he founded a monastery of Canons Regular.

In 1291 the Mamluk advance into Syria compelled the friars on Carmel to abandon their monastery ; but on dispersing through Western Europe they found that Western Carmelite congregations – especially in Italy – had largely abandoned the eremetic and ascetic ideal, adopting instead the conventual life and mission of the other Mendicant orders.

Although her father refused to grant this wish of joining a convent, he agreed to let her live from that time on in an almost conventual semi-retirement, avoiding all interactions with society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics.

The ceremonial entrance ( a side entrance is ordinarily used today ) is through an atrium ( B on plan ) surrounded by arcades, which now serves as a cloister, with conventual buildings surrounding it.

The King had intended to demolish the church as well as the conventual buildings, but in response to a plea from the townspeople, supported by Prior Draper, he granted it, together with the churchyard, to the churchwardens and inhabitants of Christchurch to be used as the parish church in perpetuity on 23 October 1540, a grant that was confirmed on 12 February 1612 by James I.

In the midst of the work he was recalled to Florence by his conventual superior, and a minute of proceedings of the commune of Prato is still extant, in which it is determined to petition the metropolitan of Florence to obtain his return to Prato, a proof that his share in the work was so important that his recall involved the suspension of it.

A conventual oblate may cancel this commitment at any time ; and it is canceled automatically if the superior sends the oblate away for good reason, after simple consultation with the chapter.

He rebuilt the church and conventual buildings, perfected the products of the scriptorium and re-established monastic discipline, so that there were 200 monks in the monastery in his day.

The conventual buildings were destroyed several times, but a monastery of Discalced Carmelite friars was built close to the original site under the auspices of Fr.

Christ Church Greyfriars had its origins in the conventual church of a Franciscan monastery, the name " Greyfriars " being a reference to the grey habits worn by Franciscan monks.

Utstein Abbey is the best-preserved monastery in the whole of Norway, still using both the church and the eastern and southern part of the ground floor of the conventual buildings.

Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.

In 1809 the conventual buildings were converted into a palace for the prince of Thurn and Taxis, hereditary postmaster-general of the Holy Roman Empire.

Most of the abbey's site is built over by the modern town, but the fine Gothic church, built in the 14th century, was not destroyed ; neither were the cloisters and conventual buildings, which until the " Association Laws " of 1901 were used as a seminary for the diocese of Besançon, and still remain in existence.

Lanercost Priory was dissolved in 1538 by Henry VIII, and the conventual buildings were stripped of their roofs, excepting the church building which continued in use as the parish church.

After Henry's death, seven of the nuns who had already been permitted by Queen Mary to re-establish the conventual observance at King's Langley, with Elizabeth Cressener as prioress, were permitted to return to Dartford.

The conventual buildings of the priory were pulled down soon after the dissolution.

He vainly sought to obtain from the Curia the right, which was sometimes granted by Rome, to make official visitations to the conventual institutions of his realm.

* The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation.

It was commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Knights of Malta.

The Benedictine priory of St Gregory the Great was founded by Saint John Roberts at Douai in 1605, with a handful of exiled English Benedictines who had entered various monasteries in Spain, as the first house after the Reformation to begin conventual life.

It is flanked by colonnades linking it with the extensive conventual and hospital buildings.

* The Madonna delle Lacrime is a medieval conventual church with large votive frescoes, including an Adoration of the Magi by Pietro Perugino, his last known signed and dated work.

St. Johns Co-Cathedral (), located in Valletta, Malta, was built by the Knights of Malta between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John, known as the Knights of Malta.

A conventual priory was founded in 1962 in Australia at Arcadia, Sydney by an Italian monk serving in Sri Lanka.

There are some remains of the ancient abbey, situated in a large cemetery which is still used as a burial-place ; and also of the conventual buildings ; but the chief feature is a double-arched doorway, divided in the centre by a round pillar, which is of elegant design and in good preservation.

The restoration of the conventual buildings was his first care, and he also rebuilt a large part of the church, probably the whole of the eastern end, the transepts, and the central tower, placing his new building to the south of St. Æthelwold's church He enriched the abbey by obtaining grants of land and gifts, caused books of divinity and medicine to be copied for the library, was liberal to the monks, and raised their number from twenty-eight to eighty.

At Matins, if no priest is present, a nun assumes the stole and reads the Gospel, and although the chanting of the Epistle was, in the time of the Tridentine Mass, reserved to an ordained subdeacon, a consecrated nun sang the Epistle at the conventual Mass, though without wearing the maniple.

She was a benefactress of the abbey of L ' Épau in Le Mans, entered the conventual life, and was buried in the abbey.

A second smaller dormitory for the conventual officers ran from east to west.

In marked distinction to the situation in England, in Ireland the houses of friars had flourished in the 15th century, attracting popular support and financial endowments, undertaking many ambitious building schemes, and maintaining a regular conventual and spiritual life.

The Benedictines and their offshoots ( Cistercians and Trappists among them ), the Premonstratensians, and the military orders distinguish between conventual and simple or obedientiary priories.

At present the Benedictine Order has twenty-seven conventual priories.

* Communities belonging to institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life which wish to use the 1962 Missal for conventual or " community " celebration in their oratories may do so.

Catherine possessed several good qualities, but had been brought up in a conventual seclusion and was scarcely a wife Charles would have chosen for himself.

The story that Eof was a swineherd goes back at least to William of Malmesbury, writing in the twelfth century, while the obverse of the conventual seal of Evesham Abbey clearly shows stylised pigs rather than sheep.

The regulations of Pope Leo X brought a notable increase of strength to the Observantist branch, and many conventual houses joined them — in France all but forty-eight, in Germany the greater part, in Spain practically all.

The hospital / conventual precinct became a parish no later than 1496.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

I choose John ... a name sweet to us because it is the name of our father, dear to me because it is the name of the humble parish church where I was baptized, the solemn name of numberless cathedrals scattered throughout the world, including our own basilica John Lateran.

Many cathedrals are regarded as places that have provided rewarding religious experiences, where prayers have been answered or miracles have taken place.

Some cathedrals also have a chapter house where the chapter could meet.

At that time, a revival of grants of city status took place, first in England, where the grants were accompanied by the establishment of new cathedrals, and later in Scotland and Ireland.

It is often called cathedral glass, but this has nothing to do with medieval cathedrals, where the glass used was hand-blown.

Chapels that are built as part of a larger church are holy areas set aside for some specific use or purpose: for instance, many cathedrals and large churches have a " Lady Chapel " in the apse, dedicated to the Virgin Mary ; parish churches may have such a " Lady Chapel " in a side aisle or a " Chapel of Reservation " where the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist are kept in reserve between services, for the purpose of taking Holy Communion to the sick and housebound and, in some Christian traditions, for devotional purposes.

Two main strata exist in the rite, those places that have inherited the traditions of the Russian Church which had been given only the monastic Sabbaite typicon which she uses to this day in parishes and cathedrals as well as in monasteries, and everywhere else where some remnant of the cathedral rite remained in use ; therefore, the rite as practiced in monasteries everywhere resembles the Russian recension, while non-Russian non-monastic customs differs significantly.

Other major Tuscan cities had undertaken ambitious reconstructions of their cathedrals during the Late Medieval period, as seen at Pisa and particularly Siena where the enormous proposed extensions were never completed.

In support of this effort it allowed the cathedrals themselves to be used as solar observatories called meridiane ; i. e., they were turned into " reverse sundials ", or gigantic pinhole cameras, where the Sun's image was projected from a hole in a window in the cathedral's lantern onto a meridian line.

King Edgar and his Archbishop of Canterbury Dunstan instituted a major reform of cathedrals at a synod at Winchester in 970, where it was agreed that all bishops should seek to establish monasticism in their cathedrals following the Benedictine rule, with the bishop as abbot.

Typical areas of application were harbors, mines, and, in particular, building sites where the treadwheel crane played a pivotal role in the construction of the lofty Gothic cathedrals.

Superficially the Green Man would appear to be pagan, perhaps a fertility figure or a nature spirit, similar to the woodwose ( the wild man of the woods ), and yet he frequently appears, carved in wood or stone, in churches, chapels, abbeys and cathedrals, where examples can be found dating through to the 20th century.

In planning the nave, a system of supports was adopted not unlike that to be seen in most Gothic cathedrals, where huge, yet narrow, buttresses are projected at intervals, and stiffened by transverse walls, arcading and vaulting.

She joins one of the caravans, a massive vehicle composed of several smaller units, to get to the " Permanent Way ", where the cathedrals can be found.

To this there are some exceptions, in Sant ' Ambrogio, Milan, and San Michele, Pavia ( the original vault ), and in the cathedrals of Spires, Mainz and Worms, where the quadripartite vaults are nearly square, the intermediate piers of the aisles being of much smaller dimensions.

In the United States, where only a few cathedrals have crypts, the galeri of past archbishops who were cardinals are suspended from the ceiling.

He held a succession of posts at various cathedrals in Italy, including Concordia ( near Venice ), and Fano, on the east coast of Italy, where he was maestro di cappella from 1610 to 1612 ( Mompellio 2001 ).

Since it was difficult to get widely separated choirs to sing the same music simultaneously ( especially before modern techniques of conducting were developed ), composers such as Adrian Willaert, the maestro di cappella of St. Mark's in the 1540s, solved the problem by writing antiphonal music where opposing choirs would sing successive, often contrasting phrases of the music ; the stereo effect proved to be popular, and soon other composers were imitating the idea, and not only in St. Mark's but in other large cathedrals in Italy.

Use of " Eifel marble " can be seen as far east as Paderborn and Hildesheim, where it was used in the cathedrals.

It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over high altars in cathedrals, where such a structure is more correctly called a ciborium when it is sufficiently architectural in form.

The concept of religion is new to the Civilization series, where in previous games players built generic temples and cathedrals to contribute to happiness and culture.

English cathedrals and churches are all lighted by clemstory windows, but no one has described them as open to the sky, and although Vitruviuss statements are sometimes confusing, his description is far too clear to leave any misunderstanding as to the lighting of temples ( where it was necessary on account of great length ) through an opening in the roof.