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The monastery was sold in 1936 to Otto Zuber and in 1969 it was taken over by the new Eidgenosenschaft Forschungsanstalt für Betriebswirtschaft und Landtechnik ( Swiss Federal Institute of Business and Agriculture ).
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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.
Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in AD 1154 Adrian IV ( Nicholas Breakspear ) granted it to the abbot of St Alban's, in which monastery he had been brought up.
From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.
It was not uncommon for the Merovingian, Carolingian, or later kings to make laymen abbots of monasteries ; the layman would often use the income of the monastery as his own and leave the monks a bare minimum for the necessary expenses of the foundation.
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.
Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.
Alexius III was then confined to a monastery at Nicaea, where he died later in 1211.
A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexei were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.
He was put under the guardianship of his aunt Adosinda after his father's death, but one tradition relates his being put in the monastery of Samos.
His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.
In the event it was a will that his nobles refused to carry out — instead bringing his brother Ramiro from the monastery to assume royal powers — an eventuality that Lourie suggests was Alfonso's hidden intent.
The Aragonese took Ramiro out of a monastery and made him king, marrying him without papal dispensation to Agnes, sister of the Duke of Aquitaine, then betrothing their newborn daughter to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, who was then named Ramiro's heir.
Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.
The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery.
Diabelli was trained to enter the priesthood and in 1800 he joined the monastery at Raitenhaslach, Bavaria.
Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.
A Benedictine monastery at the place was founded around 748 by a Frankish noble, Gumbertus, who was later canonized.
On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave.
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.
monastery and sold
By this time Merton was a huge success outside the monastery, The Seven Storey Mountain having sold over 150, 000 copies.
In 1536 the monastery was dissolved, and around nine years later the buildings and some of the monastic lands were sold to Sir Richard Brooke who converted the habitable part of the abbey into a house.
The priory was dissolved in 1803, when the library and archives were given to the city of Düsseldorf ; the monastery and the church were sold and torn down in 1809.
The first documented trade of gingerbread biscuits dates to the 16th century, where they were sold in monastery pharmacies and town square farmers markets.
In 1796 the French arrived in Italy and only four years later Napoleon suppressed the monastery and sold its treasures.
Vladimir was defeated and Boris had him blinded, his wife shaved and sent to a monastery, and Boris's grandchild sold into prostitution to the Saracensand.
At the Dissolution the site of the monastery, its land and associated granges at Bodsey and Biggin were given to Richard Williams ( alias Cromwell ) who dismantled the buildings and sold off the material.
Following this rule, most Trappist monasteries produce goods which are sold to provide income for the monastery.
After the monastery was secularized, it became hacienda land again, but over time, parts were sold and it became the current area of Xochimilco.
Due to heavy debt the monastery was sold by the Georgians to the Greeks in 1685.
The monastery sold the church in 1416 to the Abbey of Frienisberg.
However the monastery could not produce all that it required and sold produce at an annual fair to buy the things they did not have.
Cawarden used part of the monastery as Revels offices ; other parts he sold or leased to the neighbourhood's wealthy residents, including Lord Cobham and John Cheke.
As with all other Trappist breweries, the beer is only sold in order to financially support the monastery and other philanthropic causes.
However Kinthup was sold into slavery, escaped, and ended up employed at a monastery.
The Cistercians later sold the monastery to Gilbert.
As with all other Trappist breweries, the beer is sold only for financial support of the monastery and good causes.
As with other Trappist breweries, the beer is sold in order to financially support the monastery and some other good causes.
Like all other Trappist breweries, the beers are sold in order to support the monastery and charities.
As with all other Trappist breweries, the beer is only sold in order to financially support the monastery and some other charitable causes.
This monastery is also famous for making wooden bracelets that are only sold near the Tian Tan Buddha statue.
In 1836, the canton appointed a trustee and sold the monastery lands.
Two years later, 1850, they sold the monastery and chapel to the Planta family and the Tänikon parish church.
* 1791-1793-The monastery is sold for 62, 000 livres to Elizabeth Roux-Chatelard, who strips the Maurist building and leaves it in ruins.
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