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.

According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

* 1382: Gdynia became property of the Cistercian abbey in Oliva, now Oliwa.

The settlement of Battle, East Sussex, grew up around the abbey and is now a small market town.

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.

He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of Fountains Abbey land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now in Lancashire ) on which to found a daughter abbey.

On the other side of the main road, the grade II * listed former abbey gatehouse now forms the Abbey House Museum.

The name commemorates the abbey in France which held the patronage of Tintagel during the Middle Ages ( the commune is now known as Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye ), founded by Robert of Arbrissel.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis (, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis ) is a large medieval abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris.

The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage as 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield, which includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks ' gatehouse with recovered artefacts.

These remains are preserved beneath the stone effigy of the queen, which is now to be found in the chapter house of the abbey.

The abbey was built on Holmhurst Hill — now Holywell Hill — across the River Ver from the ruins of Verulamium.

A new gateway, now called the Abbey Gateway, was built to the abbey grounds in 1365, which was the only part of the monastery buildings ( besides the church ) to survive the dissolution, later being used as a prison and now part of St Albans School.

The abbey was originally served by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular from Merton Priory and the layout of the original church at Holyrood, now known only from excavations, probably came from the 1125 church at the priory.

The old abbey buildings of the same foundation are now used as the hospital.

It has been a Saxon cathedral ( 705 – 1075 ), a Benedictine abbey ( 998 – 1539 ), and, now, a parish church.

Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, was an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now an Anglican parish church.

Eventually, on co-founder FitzTurgis ' death, control of the abbey passed to his son Roger, now ' de Wickersley ,' and then eventually to a granddaughter Constantia, who married William de Livet ( Levett ), a family of Norman origin who were lords of the nearby village of Hooton Levitt ( or Levett ).

They established an abbey at Kilmainham on the site now occupied by Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

The standing remains of the abbey include part of the church and claustral buildings, as well as a watermill ; the pulpitum screen with part of the stalls can now be seen in Aysgarth Church.

In the 13th century, the abbey now called Dieleghem possessed half of the commune ’ s territory and played an important social and economic role until the French Revolution.

In 1736 he was appointed as pastor of a parish in Přímětice ( now part of Znojmo ) which was served by the abbey.

Near Rochefort are the famous red marble quarries of St Remy, and the old Trappist abbey of that name is now a Trappist seminary famous for brewing dark and sweet beers, especially the extremely popular Rochefort 10, whose deep dark-brown color and rich, fruity palate inspire a cult following.

" Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions — all now ruthlessly swept away — throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.