A monastery must have been granted the status of an abbey by the Pope, and such monasteries are normally raised to this level after showing a degree of stability — a certain number of monks in vows, a certain number of years of establishment, a certain firmness to the foundation in economic, vocational and legal aspects.

There were a number of monasteries in and around the town, including a Benedectine monastery after which the Barfussgässchen ( Barefoot Alley ) is named and a monastery of Irish monks near the present day Ranstädter Steinweg ( old Via Regia ).

Other sources maintain that the number of monks, rather than the number of monasteries, may have reached 7000.

The council also decreed that every altar should contain a relic, which remains the case in modern Catholic and Orthodox regulations ( Canon VII ), and made a number of decrees on clerical discipline, especially for monks when mixing with women.

The prayer rope is part of the habit of Eastern Orthodox monks and nuns and is employed by monastics ( and sometimes by others ) to count the number of times one has prayed the Jesus Prayer or, occasionally, other prayers.

The invention of the prayer rope is attributed to Saint Pachomius in the fourth century as an aid for illiterate monks to accomplish a consistent number of prayers and prostrations in their cells.

" The abbot in his wisdom decided that great number of young monks in the monastery should be thoroughly initiated in these arts "-says the chronicler about the role of the Greeks in the revival of mosaic art in medieval Italy.

His reputation was such that a number of monks requested him to write a book to kindle their zeal ; and his letter to Joscelin, later archbishop of Bordeaux, who had asked him to decide a dispute between Bishop Isembert of Poitiers and his chapter, is evidence of the authority attributed to his judgment.

Today, the legend continues, the true location is known only to 12 monks, its whereabouts only revealed to one of their brothers when one of their number dies.

A number of other monks publicly self-immolated, and the U. S. grew increasingly frustrated with the unpopular leader ’ s public image in both Vietnam and the United States.

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.

A source from the 12th century, Liber Eliensis, written by the monks at Ely, suggests that Byrhtnoth had only a few men to command: " he was neither shaken by the small number of his men, nor fearful of the multitude of the enemy ".

However, Bede speaks of " the monastery of Bangor, in which, it is said, there was so great a number of monks, that the monastery being divided into seven parts, with a superior set over each, none of those parts contained less than three hundred men, who all lived by the labour of their hands.

The monks often put forward candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury, either from among their number or outside, since the archbishop was nominally their abbot, but this could lead to clashes with the king and / or pope should they put forward a different man — examples are the elections of Baldwin of Forde and Thomas Cobham.

The abbey was extended in the 1190s by Abbot John de Cella ( also known as John of Wallingford ) ( 1195 – 1214 ); as the number of monks grew from fifty to over a hundred, the abbey was extended westwards with three bays added to the nave.

Zeno allowed the arrival in Antioch from nearby monasteries of monks who increased the number of Peter's followers, and did not repress effectively their violence.

Initially, the Tathagata rejected a number of more specific ascetic practices that some monks requested to follow.

This is attributable to a number of factors, including Mahayana-specific teachings regarding vegetarianism, East Asian cultural tendencies that predate the introduction of Buddhism ( some of which may have their roots in Confucianism ) and the different manner in which monks support themselves in East Asia.

In about 1126 upon the marriage of Robert's daughter Cecily, to Roger St. John the number of monks living at Boxgrove was increased from the original three to six, and by 1187 there were a total of fifteen.

In Buddhist societies, a religious order is one of the number of monastic orders of monks and nuns, many of which follow under a different school of teaching, such as Zen.

Conventual priories are those autonomous houses which have no abbots, either because the canonically required number of twelve monks has not yet been reached, or for some other reason.

The Roche Abbey records were lost or destroyed so there are no accounts of what went on in the abbey, other than there were 14 monks and an unknown number of novices at the time of dissolution in 1538.

It rose to number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the charts for 15 weeks, as if, she wrote, her fans had been " waiting to embrace it ".

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

After those redeployments the number of Army troops in that region rose to 25, 000.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title " Father of Rock and Roll ," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.

Spending on technical education also rose, and the number of nursery schools was increased.

In addition, the number of motor cars on the roads rose from 3 million to 5 million from 1945 to 1951, and seaside holidays were taken by far more people than ever before.

The number of Central Committee meetings rose again when Brezhnev was elected First Secretary, but the number of meetings and their duration steadily decreased during Brezhnev's rule.

It was poorly received by critics, but Bowie's theme song rose to number two in the UK charts.

The report shows violent crime offenses rose 1. 3 %, but the number of property crime offenses decreased 2. 9 % compared to 2005.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

After World War II the number of inmates in prison camps and colonies, again, rose sharply, reaching approximately 2. 5 million people by the early 1950s ( about 1. 7 million of whom were in camps ).

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

The Gardens has received a number of national, state, and local awards since its opening, and its rose gardens are particularly noteworthy.

With a series of men trained to do a single task on a product, then having it moved along to the next worker, the number of finished goods also rose significantly.

The number of reported murders rose 80 % from 136 in 2000 to 245 in 2001.

The number of reported arsons rose 140 % from 218 to 523 over the same period.

The number of working days lost in the country due to strikes rose sharply to more than 25, 000, 000 in 1984, though most of these were miners on strike, and from then on the number of working days lost in Britain due to strikes remained in the low millions.

They were the creation of millionaire Percy Nilsson and quickly rose to the highest rank in the early to mid-1990s and won two Swedish championships, but for a number of years have found themselves residing outside of the top flight.

The Clash's self-titled debut album came out two months later and rose to number twelve ; the single " White Riot " entered the top forty.

Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose ( in constant 2000 dollars ) from $ 267. 1 billion in 1980 ( 4. 9 % of GDP and 22. 7 % of public expenditure ) to $ 393. 1 billion in 1988 ( 5. 8 % of GDP and 27. 3 % of public expenditure ); most of those years military spending was about 6 % of GDP, exceeding this number in 4 different years.

Melson and Orbison followed it with the more complex " Blue Angel " which peaked at U. S. number 9 / UK number 11, a self-performed version of " Claudette ", and " I'm Hurtin '", which rose to number 27 but failed to chart in the UK.