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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In some cases, this is the result of an abbey being considered the " mother " of several " daughter " abbeys founded originally as dependent priories of the " mother.

In 1017 Henry II also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg (" Mount St. Michael "), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy.

Jacobus de Voragine gives the common account of the transfer of the relics of Mary Magdalene from her sepulchre in the oratory of Saint Maximin at Aix-en-Provence to the newly founded abbey of Vézelay ; the transportation of the relics is entered as undertaken in 771 by the founder of the abbey, identified as Gerard, duke of Burgundy.

Talley Abbey was the first Premonstratensian abbey in Wales, while Llanllyr was a Cistercian nunnery, only the second nunnery to be founded in Wales and the first to prosper.

Willibrord fled to the abbey he had founded in Echternach ( in modern-day Luxemburg ) while Boniface returned to Nursling.

In 742, one of his disciples, Sturm ( also known as Sturmi, or Sturmius ), founded the abbey of Fulda not far from Boniface's earlier missionary outpost at Fritzlar.

Louis also founded the Fraumünster abbey in 853 for his daughter Hildegard.

In 1590 it was taken over by a female order of Benedictines from Chełmno, who founded an abbey there in 1617.

Finglas was originally the site of an Early Christian abbey, the origin of which has been associated, from early times, with the name of St. Cainnech, or Canice, the patron of Kilkenny, said to have founded it in 560 A. D.

The abbey at Stavelot was founded ca 650 on the domain of a former villa near Liège and the abbey of Vézelay had a similar founding.

* A Benedictine abbey is founded at Sherborne.

While his father had founded only one monastery ( Otto I later replaced the abbey with the Cathedral of Magdeburg ) during his 37 years of reign.

Henry designated Westminster, where St Edward had founded the abbey, as the fixed seat of power in England and Westminster Hall duly became the greatest ceremonial space of the kingdom, where the council of nobles also met.

This is based on the fact that St. Augustine founded an abbey ( within the current school's grounds ) where it is known that teaching took place.

Llywelyn died at the Cistercian abbey of Aberconwy, which he had founded, and was buried there.

* Badìa Fiorentina, an abbey in Florence, Italy, is founded by Willa, Margravine of Tuscany.

* An abbey is founded at the site of Mönchengladbach.

The abbey of Les Echarpes was founded in 1626.

The city was quarried for building material when medieval St Albans was founded ; indeed, much of Norman abbey was constructed from the remains of the Roman city, with Roman brick and stone visible.

The presence of Scone two miles ( 3 km ) northeast, the main royal centre of the Kingdom of Alba from at least the reign of Kenneth I mac Ailpín ( 843 – 58 ), later the site of the major Augustinian abbey of the same name founded by Alexander I ( 1107 – 24 ), enhanced Perth's early importance.

The abbey was founded by Britons, and dates to at least the early 7th century, although later medieval Christian legend claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.