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The abbey church was enlarged in the tenth century by the Abbot of Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan, the central figure in the tenth-century revival of English monastic life, who instituted the Benedictine Rule at Glastonbury.
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At Bobbio the saint repaired the half-ruined church of St. Peter, and erected his celebrated abbey, which for centuries was stronghold of orthodoxy in Northern Italy.
His body has been preserved in the abbey church at Bobbio, and many miracles are said to have been wrought there through his intercession.
David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.
A new St. Mary's church was built within the new town before the 1260s, while St. Mary's in the former Pomeranian stronghold was turned into a nuns ' abbey.
Her and Henry's mortal remains are buried at the crypt of the St. Servatius ' abbey church.
The predecessor of the cathedral was a church built in 937 within an abbey, called St. Maurice.
* The abbey church of Saint John the Evangelist ( San Giovanni Evangelista ), was originally constructed in the 10th century behind the Cathedral's apse, but had to be rebuilt in 1498 and 1510 after a fire.
In the sixteenth century his body was removed to the abbey church, and again translated in 1890.
On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.
The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.
The initial grant for the abbey was signed by Carloman, the son of Charles Martel, and a supporter of Boniface's reform efforts in the Frankish church.
His remains were eventually buried in the abbey of Fulda after resting for some time in Utrecht, and they are entombed within a shrine beneath the high altar of Fulda Cathedral, previously the abbey church.
Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures.
* 1136: Suger begins rebuilding the abbey church at St Denis north of Paris, which is regarded as the first major Gothic building.
* Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of the Franks at Saint-Denis outside Paris ; also dedicates the foundations of the new abbey church.
The small church in which he was baptized stood in the vicinity of the subsequent abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, and a statue of him being baptized by Saint Remigius can be seen there.
The abbey church, rebuilt and decorated with the utmost splendor, was consecrated in 1071 by Pope Alexander II.
Abbot Desiderius sent envoys to Constantinople some time after 1066 to hire expert Byzantine mosaicists for the decoration of the rebuilt abbey church.
The crypt of the original abbey church still holds those relics, but the church itself has been subsumed into a Baroque renovation.
A small, 9th century chapel remains standing within walking distance of the church, as do the foundations of a later women's abbey.
This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in Llanrwst parish church.
Abbot Alexander with twelve Cistercian monks from Fountains went to Barnoldswick and after demolishing the existing church attempted to build the abbey on Henry de Lacy's land.
* Examples of the Romanesque basilica style are the church of Obermünster, dating from 1010, and the abbey church of St. Emmeram, built in the 13th century, remarkable as one of the few German churches with a detached bell tower.
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Within two weeks Warren was ringing the bell at the abbey gate.
The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for certain of the faithful on November 2 was first established by St. Odilo of Cluny ( d. 1048 ) at his abbey of Cluny in 998.
Even the abbey of St Denis was held in commendam by Hugh Capet.
" Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d ' Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube.
The abbey became too small for its members and it was necessary to send out bands to found new houses.
Also built at that time was an abbey of canons regular, now mostly ruined.
But frequently, the cathedral, along with some of the abbey churches, was the largest building in any region.
Columba died on Iona and was buried in AD 597 by his monks in the abbey he created.
The abbey was sacked by the Huguenots in 1562 and many of the valuable manuscripts were destroyed or removed.
Only a small portion of the abbey was spared demolition.
At one time the abbey, castle, or landscape was something treasured and appreciated.
By setting the story in the ruined abbey, Radcliffe was able to use architecture to draw on the aesthetic theories of the time and set the tone of the story in the minds of the reader.
Another abbey was founded by King Offa of Mercia in 793.
The head of the abbey was confirmed as the premier abbot in England in 1154.
The abbey was extended by John of Wallingford ( also known as John de Cella ) in the 1190s, and again between 1257 and 1320 but financial constraints limited the effectiveness of these later additions.
A market was running outside the abbey from the 10th century ; it was confirmed by King John of England in 1202 and by a Royal Charter of Edward VI in 1553.
Matilda bore him three sons, one called Otto, and two daughters, Hedwig and Gerberga and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.
His stay at this abbey, which lengthened to a full year, was cited by the abbot after the war when the monastery was accused by Heinrich Böll and others of collaboration with the Nazis.
Edith loved the town and often lived there ; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice, later rebuilt as the cathedral.
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