This rule proved inconvenient when a monastery was situated in a desert or at a distance from a city, and necessity compelled the ordination of some monks.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.

Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.

After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he was appointed Abbot of Tavistock Abbey in around 1027.

Alexius III was then confined to a monastery at Nicaea, where he died later in 1211.

The Augustinian monastery at Salamanca contains the tomb of the Count and Countess de Monterey, another work by Algardi.

He declined offers from German bishops and finally retired to the monastery of Cluny, where he died at a high age, leaving behind a solid reputation for piety and intelligence.

Near Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede ( 1128 ) he overcame the troops under his mother's second husband and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, exiling her forever to a monastery in Galicia.

* Saint Anastasius Sinaita ( of Sinai ) – theologian, Father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, monk, priest, and abbot of the monastery at Mt.

In this movie a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery.

Diabelli was trained to enter the priesthood and in 1800 he joined the monastery at Raitenhaslach, Bavaria.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

A Benedictine monastery at the place was founded around 748 by a Frankish noble, Gumbertus, who was later canonized.

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Monkwearmouth's sister monastery at Jarrow was founded by Ceolfrith in 682, and Bede probably transferred to Jarrow with Ceolfrith that year.

Bede also travelled to the monastery of Lindisfarne, and at some point visited the otherwise unknown monastery of a monk named, a visit that is mentioned in a letter to that monk.

On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave.

After considerable initial struggles with his first community at Subiaco, he eventually founded the monastery of Monte Cassino in 529, where he wrote his Rule near the end of his life.

Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero ; Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the ' villa ' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine.

Subiaco is home to Subiaco Abbey and Academy, a Catholic monastery and private school.

Benedict of Nursia established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero.

He also restored the monastery of Subiaco, destroyed by the Lombards in 601.

Between 936 and 942 he visited Italy several times, founding in Rome the monastery of Our Lady on the Aventine and reforming several convents, e. g., Subiaco and Monte Cassino.

In 1456, the new Pope Callixtus III, aka Alfonso de Borja, gave him, in commendam, the position of Abbott of the monastery of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco.

* Subiaco, Lazio, town in Italy, site of St. Benedict's first monastery,

There are still a few commendatory abbots among the cardinals ; Pope Pius X himself was Commendatory Abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco near Rome.

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery belonging to the English Province of the Subiaco Congregation of Benedictine monasteries.

They then go to a monastery in Subiaco and meet Father Spiletto, now wheelchair-bound and badly disfigured, who tells them where Damien's mother is buried.

The crew did not go back to Subiaco to film the exterior location of the monastery as in the first film as it only appears in two scenes in this film.

Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.

Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

In 1238, upon his death, Henry was buried at a Cistercian monastery of nuns, Trzebnica Abbey ( Kloster Trebnitz ), which he had established in 1202 at Hedwig's request.

Cassiodorus, minister to Theodoric, established a monastery at Vivarium in the heel of Italy with a library where he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations.

He established his first monastery between 318 and 323.

He turned his family mansion in Rome into a monastery, St. Agatha in Suburra, endowing it with expensive and precious vessels for use at the altar, and also established a new church, dedicated to Sant ' Eustachio.

Gregory was also an enthusiastic supporter of monasticism ; he established the monastery of St. Chrysogonus and rebuilt the hospice of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, near St. Peter's, endowing it for the support of the poor.

Hardly had he left the city to be consecrated in the monastery of Farfa ( about 40 km north of Rome ), when the citizens, under the influence of Arnold of Brescia, the great opponent of the Pope's temporal power, established the old Roman constitution, the Commune of Rome and elected Giordano Pierleoni to be Patrician.

After his death a monastery ( Lanwethinoc, the church of Wethinoc an earlier holy man ) was established here which was of great importance until the town was raided by the Vikings in 981 ( the Vikings laid waste " Petroces stow " ( probably Padstow ) according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

In 961 and 963 a Canon's monastery was established in St. Wiperti, south of the castle hill.

* The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino near Naples by Benedict of Nursia, who founds a monastery and formulates for his monks strict rules in the " Regula Benedicti ".

A monastery was established on Lindisfarne.

St. Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529.

During Venetian rule in the early 16th century, a monastery was built on the islet and a leprosarium established later in the century, after which the island was named.

** Louis, having established two of his other daughters as abbesses of convents, appointed Irmgard ( also known as Ermengard ) to govern first the monastery of Buchau and then the royal abbey of Chiemsee in Bavaria.

The alleged NLA bombing of the 13th-century Orthodox monastery Sveti Atanasij in the village of Lesok however no one has ever claimed responsibility for the attack and Albanian guerrilla officials have demised all responsibility and placed the blame on Macedonian special forces saying it was another poor attempt to link the NLA to Islamic extremism, like that of the Asian immigrant massacre and that these incidents were seriously putting the Ohrid agreement and the established peace treaty into jeopardy.

The Cathedral of Turku was consecrated in 1300, and together with Turku Castle and the Dominican monastery ( founded in 1249 ), established the city as the most important location in medieval Finland.

The Cluniac and Cistercian Orders were prevalent in France, the great monastery at Cluny having established a formula for a well planned monastic site which was then to influence all subsequent monastic building for many centuries.

The basic structure of the cathedral church, the parish church, the monastery, the castle, the palace, the great hall and the gatehouse were all established.

Garnet Wolseley immediately established a Post Office at his camp at Kykko Metochi monastery outside Nicosia.

Simtokha Dzong, known as Sangak Zabdhon Phodrang ( Palace of the Profound Meaning of Secret Mantras ) is said to be the oldest surviving fortress cum monastery established in 1629 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who unified Bhutan.

Cheri Monastery also called Chagri Dorjeden Monastery was established in 1620 by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal ; the first monastery established by him at a young age of 27.