The church and monastery of San Pietro in Montorio originally belonged to the Celestines in Rome ; but they were turned out of it by Sixtus IV to make way for Franciscans, receiving from the Pope in exchange the Church of St Eusebius of Vercelli with the adjacent mansion for a monastery.

In 1215, Żarnowiec belonged to the Cistercian order based in Oliwa Abbey, which founded a monastery for women there.

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.

Although the monastery of Iona belonged to the Cenél Conaill of the Northern Uí Néill, and not to Dál Riata, it had close ties to the Cenél nGabráin, ties which may make the annals less than entirely impartial.

The village belonged to the monastery and quickly developed.

16th century was the time of prosperity for the town, especially when Rzeszów belonged to Mikołaj Spytek Ligęza ( since 1580s ), who invested in infrastructure, building a castle, a Bernardine church and a monastery.

* The Broederkerk: a 14th-century church which originally belonged to a Franciscan monastery

The name was also used for the ground that belonged to a monastery.

White acquired buildings on the east side of St Giles ', north of Balliol and Trinity Colleges, which had belonged to the former College of St Bernard, a monastery and house of study of the Cistercian order that had been closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

This statue from the late 9th Century once belonged to the Buddhist monastery in the Cham capital of Indrapura.

In the reign of Edward the Confessor Newark belonged to Godiva and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who granted it to the monastery of Stow in 1055, who retained its incomes even after the Norman Conquest as came under the control of the Norman Bishop Remigius de Fécamp.

In his " Introduction " to The Nag Hammadi Library in English, James Robinson suggests that these codices may have belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery, and were buried after Bishop Athanasius condemned the use of non-canonical books in his Festal Letter of 367 AD.

In Medieval times, the farm belonged to the monastery at Hovedøya.

The island belonged to the Cistercian monastery at Hovedøya, but is was confiscated by the Crown in 1532.

One of these factional squabbles was between Jacobus and the bishops Conon and Eugenius, whom he had ordained at Alexandria — the former for the Isaurian Seleucia, the latter for Tarsus — who became the founders of the obscure and short-lived sect of the " Cononites ", or, from the monastery at Constantinople to which a section of them belonged, " Condobandites ".

Fridiburga was the betrothed of Sigebert II, King of the Franks, who had granted an estate at Arbon ( which belonged to the royal treasury ) to Gall so that he might found a monastery there.

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

Just a few kilometres away from the town centre, on Ratac peninsula, situated between Bar and Sutomore, there are the remnants of Our Lady of Ratac ( Bogorodica Ratačka ) monastery complex which belonged to the Benedictine order, and it is presumed to have been established in the 9th century.

Kogălniceanu was educated at Trei Ierarhi monastery in Iaşi, before being tutored by Gherman Vida, a monk who belonged to the Transylvanian School, and who was an associate of Gheorghe Şincai.

The people of Harnes were able to buy all the land that once belonged to the monastery, part of the abbey of St. Pierre at Ghent.

Canna is known to have belonged to the monastery of Iona in 1203 and it is likely that it did so from a much earlier period, possibly the 7th century.

The forests belonged to the monastery in Oliwa since 1188.

Whereas nearby Ulva belonged to the MacQuarries from the 10th century, Gometra was a possession of the Iona monastery prior to passing into the hands of the Duke of Argyll.

The present-day school stands on land which once belonged to the abbey's monastery.

The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelukpa tradition.

The history of the monastery is strongly connected to Master Lama Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 ), the founder of the Gelukpa Order, the much venerated and highly learned guru in Buddhist scriptures.

Drepung Monastery ( Wylie: ' bras spungs dgon ),( literally “ Rice Heap ” monastery ), located at the foot of Mount Gephel, is one of the " great three " Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet.

In 1238 the Dominican Order was invited to build a monastery on a grant of land.

On 11 June 1256, the General Chapter of the Trinitarian Order formally affiliated Louis IX at the monastery of Cerfroid, which had been constructed by Felix of Valois north of Paris.

At the age of fourteen he entered the Dominican Order, taking the name Michele, passing from the monastery of Voghera to that of Vigevano, and thence to Bologna.

Under the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux he entered the Cistercian Order in the monastery of Clairvaux in 1138.

* 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 ".

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

Condulmer entered the Order of Saint Augustine at the monastery of St. George in his native city.

Today, the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse is still the Motherhouse of the Order.

In 1705 he founded the Order of Sincerity ( Ordre de la Sincérité ), which was renamed in 1734 to the Order of the Red Eagle and had the monastery church built, which was completed in 1711.

But many other groups are also represented in the Netherlands, like the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives in Apeldoorn, the Thich Nhat Hanh Order of Interbeing and the International Zen Institute Noorderpoort monastery / retreat centre in Drenthe, led by Jiun Hogen Roshi.

They often undertake contemplative ministries — that is, a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good or supporting the missions of another Order by prayer ( for instance, the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, N. Y. pray in support of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York ).

Asserbo Castle, which lies in the woods of Tisvilde Hegn, was founded by Bishop Absalon in the 12th century and was used as a monastery for monks of the Cistercian Order, originally invited from France.

This Latin Rite Order, while a contemplative Order, differs from traditional monastic Orders in three ways: 1 ) They do not take vows of stability, meaning that they can live in one house ( called a friary or sometimes a monastery ) typically for several years before being moved into a different community of the Order.

His uncle and other family members had favoured the Premonstratensian Order, and this monastery was located near the family lands in Norfolk.

On December 10, 1941 Thomas Merton arrived at the Abbey of Gethsemani and spent three days at the monastery guest house, waiting for acceptance into the Order.

The apartment is near the kha ’ neqa ’ h ( monastery ) of the Molavieh Order of Sufis ( founded by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi ), where Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Thomas de Hartmann experienced the sema ceremony of The Whirling Dervishes.

Originally a property of the Hieronymite monks, it is now a monastery of the Order of Saint Augustine.

In 1938 he joined the Franciscan Order at Petrićevac monastery, Banja Luka, and took “ Tomislav ” as his religious name.

On the other hand, he worked zealously on behalf of his order, and rose to an important position ; he became superior of the monastery at Trujillo in 1626, was elected later to the posts of reader in theology and definidor general, and in May 1632 was appointed chronicler of the Order of Mercy.

On the east side of the main plaza is the 16th century monastery of San Gabriel, with its very large atrium, Capilla Real ( Royal Chapel ), Capilla de la Tercera Orden ( Chapel of the Third Order ), tall main church and Franciscan Library.

* The Episcopal monastery of the Order of Julian of Norwich is located in Waukesha.