He eventually reached the Kozhezersky monastery, in the diocese of Novgorod, of which he became abbot in 1643.

Also as mentioned above, other orders which are essentially cenobitical, most notably the Trappists, maintain a tradition that allows individual monks or nuns, when they have reached a certain level of maturity within the community, to pursue the life of the hermit on monastery grounds under the supervision of the abbot or abbess.

His party reached the monastery of Cassianus or Mar-Romanus on the Egyptian frontier, where a deadly sickness attacked them, and claiming the life of Jacobus, July 30, 578.

The recipe eventually reached the religious order's headquarters at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in Voiron, near Grenoble.

The older partner, or nenja (" lover " or " admirer "), would be a monk, priest or abbot, while the younger partner was assumed to be an acolyte ( chigo, 稚児 ), who would be a prepubescent or adolescent boy ; the relationship would be dissolved once the boy reached adulthood ( or left the monastery ).

By 6 clock reached the French advance guard the monastery driving and ransacked it.

He applied to the Carthusian monastery at Roermond only to be told he could not be admitted until he reached the minimum age of 20.

Large donations were made by almost every tsar of the Second Bulgarian Empire up until the Ottoman Conquest, making the monastery a cultural and spiritual centre of Bulgarian national consciousness that reached its apogee from the 12th to the 14th century.

The monastery and its gardens, noted for its peacocks, may be reached by vaporetto (# 20 from S. Zaccaria, near Piazza San Marco ).

The monastery can be reached by train as Sinaia railway station is just ' downstairs ' from the monastery.

The influence of Byzantine architecture reached its peak after 1300 including the rebuilding of the Our Lady of Ljeviš ( c1306-1307 ) and St. George at Staro Nagoričano as well as the Gračanica monastery.

When he reached Lhasa he was enthroned as the Fourth Dalai Lama and initiated by Sangen Rinchen, the principal holder of Tsonkapa's lineage and ex-abbot of Gaden monastery.

The children vowed and given by their parents to the monastic life, in houses under the Rule of St. Benedict, were commonly known by the name during the century and a half when the custom was in vogue, and the councils of the Church treated them as monks — that is, until the Council of Toledo ( 656 ) forbade their acceptance before the age of ten and granted them free permission to leave the monastery, if they wished, when they reached the age of puberty.

The term puer oblatus ( used after the Tenth Council of Toledo ) is used to describe an oblate who had not yet reached puberty and thus had a future opportunity to leave the monastery, though puer oblatus can also refer to someone entering an abbey.

The monastery reached its peak around the year 1340 and declined around 1561.

The Ottoman troops reached the monastery during the night of November 7-November 8.

When Hendra reached the age of eighteen and could legally begin his time at Quarr, Father Joe found out that Hendra had received a scholarship to Cambridge University, and he urged Hendra to first attend college and obtain a degree before he could be admitted to the monastery.

The monastery reached its apogee in the 19th century, when it was a regional centre of Orthodox Christianity and owned a lot of land in the area.

Quick growth of the Niepokalanów required more and more space, so the area of the monastery reached 28 ha.

Pfäfers reached importance through the foundation of the Benedictine monastery, Pfäfers Abbey, in the first half of the 8th century.

The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, certainly did not found religious orders, though he took an interest in the monastic life and watched over its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milam, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions.

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.

Within the order, each individual community ( which may be a monastery, a priory or abbey ) maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests.

St. Petroc founded a monastery in Bodmin in the sixth century and gave the town its alternative name of Petrockstow.

The monastery was deprived of some of its lands at the Norman Conquest but at the time of Domesday still held 18 manors, including Bodmin, Padstow and Rialton.

He then moved to the celebrated monastery of Bangor on the coast of Down, which at that time had for its abbot St. Comgall.

These documents were moved to Pisa before the monastery closed its doors and were published there.

* Advocatus Ecclesiae is the Latin title, in the Middle Ages, of certain lay persons, generally of noble birth, whose duty it was, under given conditions, to represent a particular church or monastery, and to defend its rights against force.

The plot is usually set in a castle, an abbey, a monastery, or some other, usually religious edifice, and it is acknowledged that this building has secrets of its own.

His monastery continued to be used for many years afterwards-St. Colman is recorded as having paid homage to its founder when he returned from abroad to visit Ireland a century after St Mobhi's death in 544.

In 1257 the Venetians conquered the monastery and destroyed its fortifications, although they were unable to expel the Genoese completely.

Tourist attractions include its medieval villages, and the 11th century monastery of “ Nea Moni ”, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located on the island.

The participation of Mieszko in the conspiracy against Otto II was documented in only one source, the chronicles of the monastery in Altaich in its entry for the year 974.

Hiei, with its sōhei ( warrior monks ) of the Tendai school who aided the anti-Nobunaga group by helping Azai-Asakura alliance, was an issue for Nobunada since the monastery was so close to his residency.

Founded in the fifth century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and it is the best known Mahayana Buddhist monastery to the Western world.

During the Red Turban Rebellion in the 14th century, bandits sacked the monastery for its real or supposed valuables, destroying much of the temple and driving the monks away.

Saint Martin's monastery benefited from its inception, at the very start of the 6th century from patronage and support from the Frankish king, Clovis, which increased considerably the influence of the saint, the abbey and the city in Gaul.

* The Byzantine Greek Hosios Loukas monastery sees the completion of its Katholikon ( main church ), the earliest extant domed-octagon church from 1011 – 1012.

* Persian hordes led by Shah-Abbas kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia, and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.

* The monastery at Tegernsee in Bavaria began brewing its own beer.