The fame of Columbanus's sanctity drew crowds to his monastery.

The town features many notable Tudor buildings, but its major claim to fame is Tewkesbury Abbey, a fine Norman Abbey, originally part of a monastery, which was saved from the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII after being bought by the townspeople for £ 453 to use as their parish church.

The school, which found its original base in the dispensary of a monastery founded in the 9th century, achieved its utmost splendour between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, from the last decades of Lombard power, during which its fame began to spread more than locally, to the fall of the Hohenstaufen.

The monastery complex owes much of its fame to 13th-and 14th-century frescoes, preserved in 5 of the churches, which are thought of as wonderful examples of Bulgarian mediaeval art.

" Nonetheless, the fame of this monastery lingered even after the Pala period.

Meanwhile, the monastery at Cîteaux, under the direction of Albéric, and especially Stephen Harding, became the cornerstone for the new Cistercian Order, which grew to greater fame in the 12th century under Bernard of Clairvaux.

The monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, which goes back to the early days of monasticism, had a great fame and is still occupied by monks.

In 1995 the monastery published a web site -- www. christdesert. org — that gained international fame and became one of the world's most visited web sites in the years 1995-1997.

The movement finally gained fame around the world when California became swept up in the movement, then seemingly started to lead the trend itself, in, for example, the popular restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley.

The invention that brought Lawrence to international fame started out as a sketch on a scrap of paper.

Walter Cronkite, who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News, once said, " I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, ' This is the day I'm going to beat the hell out of AP.

The " Fifth Beatle " claims started appearing in the press immediately upon the band's sensational rise to global fame in 1963 – 1964 as the most famous quartet in pop culture.

On the other hand, English crime writer Edgar Wallace, who was immensely popular with the English readership during the early decades of the 20th century ( and who achieved fame in German-speaking countries due to the many B movies made in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s that were based on his novels ), had almost been forgotten in his home country until House of Stratus eventually started republishing many of his 170 books around the turn of the millennium.

At this time, the school had already gained fame throughout Europe, and many countries had started importing the comics in addition to — or as substitute for — their own productions.

Called " Caton " by friends, he started the band Binge in 1997 with drummer Matt Sorum of Guns N ' Roses fame, and eventually parted ways with Amos at the end of 2000.

Because of her expanding fame as a world artist, she started recording her music in different languages and began to tour the world and perform in diverse venues.

Columbia Institute was started by a certain gentleman going by the surname Bush ; he was none other than the Bushnell of Revolutionary War submariner fame.

It started as an issues-oriented and political talk show, a longer version of the commentary for which Springer had gained local fame as a reporter and anchor, and for its first season, was even taped at Springer's former station, WLWT in Cincinnati.

In this way, Leadville, Colorado started as a placer gold discovery, achieved fame as a silver-mining district, then relied on lead and zinc in its later days.

The company found widespread fame and started the desktop video revolution with the release of the Video Toaster, an innovative system for low cost video switching and post production.

' It was a project several years in the making ; what started as an upbeat reflection on fame and the notion of being a fan, developed into a meditation on the communication between two people and coping with the blows life deals.

Magee's posthumous fame rests mainly on his sonnet " High Flight ", started on 18 August 1941, just a few months before his death, while he was based at No. 53 OTU.

In August 1950, the CIA secretly purchased the assets of Civil Air Transport ( CAT ), an airline that had been started in China in 1946 by Gen. Claire Lee Chennault ( of Flying Tigers fame ) and Whiting Willauer.

The F-86 Sabre started out as a redesigned Fury and achieved fame shooting down MiGs in the Korean War.

" One child, who had been very stable and happy until the film's release, was so distressed by his unexpected fame, that he started wetting the bed, and became afraid of the dark ... Other children have been teased at their new secondary schools because of their involvement.

Giuliani's rise to fame may be dated to when he was interviewed on March 24, 2009, by an Italian-language blog, Donne Democratiche, about a swarm of low-level earthquakes in the Abruzzo region that had started the previous December.

He started his working life as a carpenter, but gained fame during the mid 1910s as a popular music composer-producing such hits as Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula, Take Me To The Land Of Jazz, Take Your Girlie To The Movies, Felix The Cat, and Oh What A Pal Is Mary.

During the late 1970s, Zaiter's fame grew as she started recording many well – known children's albums as a singer and hosted a daily television show on WRIK Rikalandia / WLUZ.

After the 12th century the city started to expand again: the government was held first by consuls, and then by podestà and a people's captain, some of whom achieved wide fame.

Goulet's rise to fame started at the age of five when his aunts and uncles blackened his face with burnt cork and prompted him to do Al Jolson impressions.

A coordinated effort was started in February 1997 by Earle Ady and Christopher G. Stach II of Hotjobs. com and New Media Labs fame, as an effort to break the RC5-56 portion of the RSA Secret-Key Challenge, a 56-bit encryption algorithm that had a $ 10, 000 USD prize available to anyone who could find the key.

Palomo who started acting in the theatre at the age of 12, found fame with the success of Corazon Salvaje.

He also found fame himself as part of ' The Greatest Show on Legs ' which had been started by Martin Soan, his part in the legendary ' The Balloon Dance ' as well as his many shows at The Edinburgh Festival.

The backstory of one of the surviving epistles, directed to Constantine I, recounts how the fame of Saint Anthony spread abroad and reached Emperor Constantine.

: " With its love of luxury and passion for colour, the art of this age delighted in the production of masterpieces that spread the fame of Byzantium throughout the whole of the Christian world.

Such acts of recognition of a saint were authoritative, in the strict sense, only for the diocese or ecclesiastical province for which they were issued, but with the spread of the fame of a saint, were often accepted elsewhere also.

Among the non-scientific public, his fame spread more effectually by his invention in about 1815 of the kaleidoscope, for which there was a great demand in both the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.

Following on from the earlier communal tradition of Baal Shem, his fame as a healer spread among not only the Jews, but also the non-Jewish peasants and the Polish nobles.

She made a series of films for Arnold Fanck, and one of them, The White Hell of Pitz Palu ( 1929 ), co-directed by G. W. Pabst, saw her fame spread to countries outside of Germany.

In a brief, unelaborated, and enigmatic passage, the Hebrew Bible describes how the fame of Solomon's wisdom and wealth spread far and wide, so much so that the queen of Sheba decided that she should meet him.

The saint's fame quickly spread throughout the Norman world.

This work was also successful, and the fame of the young composer began to spread all over Italy.

Initially playing in small gay clubs, his fame spread.

Her fame spread quickly and she became Finland's most widely read author abroad.

Gradually Rugby's fame spread it was no longer desirable to have only local boys attending and the nature of the school shifted, and so a new school – Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School – was founded in 1878 to continue Lawrence Sheriff's original intentions ; that school receives a substantial proportion of the endowment income from Lawrence Sheriff's estate every year.

Johan Vaaler's fame as the paper clip inventor has spread worldwide, especially in the United States.

The episode spread Calhoun's fame nationwide.

Garibaldi's fame spread and many Italians began to consider him a national hero.

Messianic Jews believe God's people have a responsibility to spread his name and fame to all nations ( Psalms 96: 3, Ezekiel 3: 18 – 19 ) It is believed that the Children of Israel were, remain, and will continue to be the chosen people of the God, and are central to his plans for existence.

Houses with single scenes proved more popular to audiences as the fame of the panorama spread.

By the age of ten his fame had spread sufficiently for him to receive a mention in Daines Barrington's Miscellanies as " without the most distant instruction from anyone, capable of copying historical pictures in a masterly style ".

However, his fame spread and lived on.

His fame as a holy man spread and he attracted numerous followers.

His fame spread through Portuguese evangelization, and he has been known as the most celebrated of the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi.

His fame as a scholar spread to other countries.

Your fame will cross the seas and spread all over the land.

After killing the huge demons, he will cause his trumpet of victory to be sounded and killing thousands and crores of tyrants, he will spread his fame as Kalkii incarnation ; The place where he will manifest Himself, the condition of dharma will begin there and the mass of sins will flee away ; the town of Sambhal will be very fortunate, because the Lord will manifest Himself there. 143. The Lord will get infuriated on seeing the pitiable plight of the talented Brahmins and taking out his sword, he will cause his horse to dance in the battlefield as a persistent warrior ;

Bamba's fame spread through his followers, and people joined him to receive the salvation that he promised.