The hermit also claimed he had heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims.

Associated with stories of the supposed burning of Shaolin by the Qing government and with the tales of the Five Elders, this temple, sometimes known by the name Changlin, is often claimed to have been either the target of Qing forces or a place of refuge for monks displaced by attacks on the Shaolin Monastery in Henan.

In ecclesiastical appointments, Edward and his advisers showed a bias against candidates with local connections, and when the clergy and monks of Canterbury elected a relative of Godwin as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051, Edward rejected him and appointed Robert of Jumièges, who claimed that Godwin was in illegal possession of some archiepiscopal estates.

An Anglo-Saxon charter attributes the illness to divine judgment. Harold had reportedly claimed Sandwich for himself, depriving it from the monks of Christchurch.

In 1191, monks at the abbey claimed to have found the graves of Arthur and Guinevere to the south of the Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church, which was visited by a number of contemporary historians including Giraldus Cambrensis.

Around 1190, Avalon became associated with Glastonbury, when monks at Glastonbury Abbey claimed to have discovered the bones of Arthur and his queen.

However, the party of canons, who had been accompanied by two bishops and some other clergy, were prevented from entering by a monk of Canterbury Cathedral, who claimed that St Martin's belonged to the monks of the cathedral chapter.

The bishops of the province of Canterbury claimed the right to a say in who was elected, as whoever was chosen would be their superior, but according to canon law the monks of the cathedral chapter had the right to elect the new archbishop.

The monks claimed the same freedoms and land tenure in Hastings as King Edward had given them at Steyning.

The monks gained notoriety years ago when they were threatened with a lawsuit by Starbucks for promoting a monastery coffee labeled, " Christmas Blend ", which Starbucks claimed they owned rights to.

It is said that the raid claimed the lives of 51 monks and 65 lay brothers.

Through her paramilitary organization, Madame Nhu claimed that the Buddhists were " controlled by communism " and that they were manipulated by the Americans, calling on Diệm to " expel all foreign agitators whether they wear monks ' robes or not ".

The abbey of Charroux claimed the Holy Foreskin was presented to the monks by Charlemagne.

" Barlaam said that the monks had claimed to see the divine essence with bodily eyes, which he viewed as sheer Messalianism.

In the 12th century the monks of Westminster Abbey claimed that Edward the Confessor had bequeathed to them his regalia and stipulated that it was to be used in the coronation of each subsequent monarch.

" Henry of Dundemore, the successor of John, apparently not afraid for the loss of prayers of the monks, seized a horse belonging to them, because they would not swear fealty to him for the lands of Turbrech ; but in 1285 the Bishop of St Andrews, as arbiter, decided ' that the monks were not bound to make the fealty claimed, and gave sentence that the horse be restored.

In 1685 he published a version of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in which he claimed that most Greek and Roman texts had been forged by Benedictine monks.

The island is named after Saint Brendan who claimed to have landed on it in 512 together with 14 monks, with whom he held a mass.

The king asked the suspect monks what the Buddha taught, and they claimed he taught views such as eternalism, etc., which are condemned in the canonical Brahmajala Sutta.

The greedy monks of Tavistock buried him and claimed the lands.

The synod of September 838, ordered the monks of the abbey of Saint-Calais in the Diocese of Le Mans to return to their monastery, from which they falsely claimed to have been expelled by their bishop.

A Swedish Protestant investigator, Carl Silfverstolpe, wrote: " The monks were almost the sole bond of union in the Middle Ages between the civilization of the north and that of southern Europe, and it can be claimed that the active relations between our monasteries and those in southern lands were the arteries through which the higher civilization reached our country.

In the twelfth century, the monks of Rocamadour claimed that Roland threw the sword rather than hide it beneath himself.

Dr K. K. Shah said " Fasting is a method of curing the meditation of mind and body which has been proved by great jain monks, sanyasis and munis of ancient times.

His body was found by the monks of Tavistock Abbey, who started to carry it back.

In the mediæval days when monks inhabited the island, it was thought that if the soul was in God's keeping, the body must be fortified with Lindisfarne Mead.

There does not seem much probability in the conjecture that the monks and other ecclesiastics succeeded in suppressing that portion of the work in which the evil influences of their body were to be more especially touched upon.

Following Becket's death, the monks prepared his body for burial.

The monks were afraid that Becket's body might be stolen.

In 875 the Danes took the monastery of Lindisfarne and the monks fled, carrying with them St Cuthbert's body around various places including Melrose.

One legend tells that, prior to the arrival of Henry's commissioners, the monks covertly removed Cuthbert's body from the cathedral, reburying it in a secret location within the grounds of Crayke Abbey.

For example, in the case of the two monks mentioned above, the foot is actually compensated for in the second figure by a subtly larger body.

The main monastic body with membership of 1, 160 monks is headed by a chief abbot ( presently Je Khenpo ) who spends six months in Tashechhoe Dzong in Thimphu and the other six months in Punakha.

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Some monks avoid ( or limit ) medicine and / or hospitalization out of disregard for the physical body.

Be this however as it may, when it is considered that the monks of Lérins, in common with the general body of the churchmen of Southern Gaul, were strenuous upholders of Semipelagianism, it will not be thought surprising that Vincentius should have been suspected of at least a leaning in that direction.

He promised that the new foundation's canons would not be allowed to vote in archiepiscopal elections nor would the body of Saint Thomas Becket ever be moved to the new church, but the monks of his cathedral chapter were suspicious and appealed to the papacy.

When the three texts were found to completely summarize all of the Tripitaka and match in every respect, the monks acceded to his request and provided Buddhaghosa with the full body of their commentaries.

After the Romans left there is no record of who lived there ( apart from some wounded soldiers from wars who had to live there ), until 883 when a group of monks, driven out of Lindisfarne seven years earlier, stopped there to build a wooden shrine and church to St Cuthbert, whose body they had borne with them.

His body, preserved in salt and sewn up in the hide of an ox, was conveyed to the valley of the Ouche in Normandy by two monks.

It is reputed that the church takes its dedication from an event that occurred December 12, 1069: fleeing northwards from the Conqueror's army, the monks of Durham are said to have rested the body of St Cuthbert in Bedlington Church.

A group of monks known as the Tummo are known to practice biofeedback meditation techniques that allow them to raise their body temperatures substantially.

* The legend of the Dun Cow and the milkmaid who guided the monks of Lindisfarne carrying the body of Saint Cuthbert to the site of the present city of Durham in 995 AD.

Some monks avoid ( or limit ) medicine and / or hospitalization out of disregard for the physical body.

A holy well at the western end of St Nicholas ' Church supposedly began to flow when her body was stolen from the town by monks from Ely, who took the remains back to their town.

The legend states that monks from Ely came ' up the river ' at night and stole her body, taking it back to Ely to rest with her sisters, who were already considered saints.

Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks