Monks and nuns were encouraged to return to private life and a small percentage did eventually marry.

Monks were accused of indolence and high living.

Monks were some of the leading intellectuals in Mongolia, responsible for much of the literature and art of the pre-modern period.

Monks were taken to Male and beheaded, The Satihirutalu ( the chattravali or chattrayashti crowning a stupa ) were broken to disfigure the numerous stupasm and the statues of Vairocana, the transcendent Buddha of the middle world region, were destroyed ; and the destruction was not limited to sculptures.

Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures.

Monks used gloves that were webbed to hit balls against a fishing net strung across the middle of the courtyards of the monasteries.

Monks who had declared a life of celibacy were also forced to rape women.

Monks and nuns were attacked with rifle butts and bayonets, and overpowered by automatic weapons fire, grenades and battering rams.

Monks and nuns were intended to have enough of life's basic requisites ( particularly food, water, clothing and shelter ) to live safely and healthily, without being troubled by illness or weakness.

In most larger houses, the full observance of the Canonical Hours had become the task of a sub-group of ' Cloister Monks ', such that many or most of the professed members of the house were freed to conduct their business and live much of their lives in the secular world.

Monks and nuns in almost all late medieval English religious communities, although theoretically living in religious poverty, were nevertheless paid an annual cash wage ( peculium ) and were in receipt of other regular cash rewards and pittances ; which accorded considerable effective freedom from claustral rules for those disinclined to be restricted by them.

Monks or nuns who were handicapped or infirm were marked out for more generous treatment, and care was taken throughout that there should be nobody cast out of their place unprovided for ( who might otherwise have increased the burden of charity for local parishes ).

By the moment the Scythian Monks made their presence, the provinces from the Lower Danube, long since Latinised, were already a centre for the production of Latin-speaking theologians.

The horizontal roads were all given names ending in ' way ' and H numbers ( for ' horizontal ', ' e. g. H3 Monks Way ).

Monks throughout the realm were concerned for the safety of not only their religious houses, but their practices and relics.

From the start, the Abbey of Roche, built for the so-called White Monks, as the Cistercians were known, had an almost otherworldly air.

Monks were sent from Byland and after undergoing great hardships because of the meagreness of their endowment and sterility of their lands, Conan, son to Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, greatly increased their revenues and, in 1156, removed their monastery to a better location in East Witton, the present situation.

The skeletons were cremated and the ashes scattered in the centre of the Monks ' Walk in the Priory Gardens.

" Monks who refused to bow to Taksin and worship him as god were demoted in status, and hundreds who refused to worship him as such were flogged and sentenced to menial labor.

Monks who are neither deacons nor priests also have a form of choir dress: the full monastic habit with the monastic cowl forms their formal wear for attending the Liturgy of the Hours or Mass.

Monks, even in such a situation you should train yourselves thus: ' Neither shall our minds be affected by this, nor for this matter shall we give vent to evil words, but we shall remain full of concern and pity, with a mind of love, and we shall not give in to hatred.

The canons, he tells us, were spared the long choral duties, the sharp reproofs, the stern discipline of the Black Monks, and were not bound to the Spartan simplicity of clothing and diet of the field-working Cistercians .< ref > cf. Speculum Stultorum Rolls Series: The Anglo-Latin Satirical poets of the Twelfth Century < cite ></ ref > The " Llanthony Chronicler " relates how the first founders of his famous abbey, having consulted among themselves, decided to become canons regular, first, because on account of the charity they were well liked by all, and then because they were satisfied with a modest manner of living, their habit, though clean, being decent, neither too coarse, nor too rich.

It is said that at this time he instituted a perpetual service of praise, known as laus perennis, by which choir succeeded choir, both day and night ( Montalembert, Monks of the West II, 405 ).

* 1655 – Second Northern War / the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.

Among the largest and best-known of these structures is Monks Mound at the site of Cahokia, which has a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

* Pelagians, Donatists, Monks, Anabaptists and other Perfectionists-a sympathetic look at Pelagianism and similar ' perfectionist ' movements

" He was disillusioned with the glory of death in combat after being mortally wounded while fighting the Headless Monks at the Battle of Demons Run, though, and he firmly corrected fellow nurse Rory Williams when the Doctor's companion called him a warrior, telling him, " I'm a nurse.

The circumference of the 10-story-high Monks Mound at Cahokia was larger than that of the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan or the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

* December 27 – Second Northern War / the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.

Monks at Dechen Phodrang Monastery | Dechen Phodrang.

Monks and nuns had been present at the Cathedral since the seventh century ( see Bede ).

Monks have inhabited the island since AD410 and, at the height of their powers, owned Cannes, Mougins and Vallauris.

Halma ( from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning " jump ") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks.

Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre-Columbian Earthworks ( archaeology ) | earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica.

The best-known, flat-topped pyramidal structure, which at over 100 feet ( 30 m ) tall is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork north of Mexico, is Monks Mound at Cahokia Indian Mounds in Collinsville, Illinois.

" ( Monks drink a bowl after breakfast until ten o ' clock and come to Matins as drunk as mice, some ( playing ) at cards, some at dice.

The club was founded in 1928 and in 1996 moved to a new purpose-built ground at Monks Lane, which has since hosted England U21 fixtures.

It was founded by a group of monks from Whitland Abbey, at a time of very fast expansion of the Cistercians, the White Monks.

However, as for the clergy and people of Constantinople an Arian was not eligible to become an emperor, at the news of the appointment riots broke out in the city hippodrome, led by the head of the Sleepless Monks, Marcellus: Aspar and Leo had to promise to the bishops that Patricius would convert to Orthodoxy before becoming emperor, and only after the conversion he would have married Leontia.

Since 1996, The Raincoats have played some special events such as Robert Wyatt's Meltdown in 2001, at Chicks on Speed's 99 Cents album release in Berlin in December 2003. da Silva and Birch recently recorded a cover version of " Monk Chant " for a compilation album of The Monks songs called Silver Monk Time, and performed the song live with the Monks in the Volksbuehne, Berlin in October 2006.

are based at the Culver Road ground while Lancing United play at Monks Recreation ground ( Crabtree Lane ) and Croshaw Recreation Ground ( Boundstone Lane ).