In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

17th-19th century collections of alpine myths and legends suggest that alphorn-like instruments had frequently been used as signal instruments in village communities since medieval times or earlier, sometimes substituting for the lack of church bells.

When his friends from the local village came to visit him and found him in this condition, they carried him to a church.

The small church ( dedicated to the Holy Trinity ) that lies to the east of the village closed some years ago.

The church in the movie is St Clement's Church in the village of Old Romney, which was restored by the film company.

Another important church built in the 11th century is the Patron Saint church of San Giovanni Battista, located in the oldest section of the village also known as " Su Piggiu ".

The Roman church of San Gavino is Gavoi's foremost sacred spot, through there are eight other ancient churches in the village.

The village church where she attended Mass is on the right behind the trees.

* The fifth surviving longbow comes from the armoury of the church in the village of Mendlesham in Suffolk, and is believed to date either from the period of Henry VIII or Queen Elizabeth I.

John gives the money to the village, and new almshouses are built, and the school and the church renovated.

This incident revived Newton's belief in God and, despite considerable reservations from within the established church ( it took six years to be ordained into the Church of England ), he achieved the position of priest to the village of Olney in 1764.

The State, of course, did not create poverty but by destroying the chief agencies which dealt with it such as the village, the church and the guilds, it practically assumed full responsibility for the poor without exercising any power over it.

North Parma serves the farming congregation to the north and the " Plain Parma " church serves the village congregation.

The defunct church in the abandoned village Novospasskoye, Saratov Oblast, Russia

The SS Paranormal Division, under Oberführer Helga von Bulow, has been excavating the catacombs and crypts of an ancient church within the village.

There is a memorial plaque to him in the small village church of Strensham, Worcestershire, near the town of Upton upon Severn, his birthplace.

The Phoenix Park and the adjacent village and parish church of Chapelizod would appear in Le Fanu's later stories.

Image: georgeladoga. jpg | 12th century depiction of St. George in a church at the Russian village of Staraya Ladoga.

The new church grew rapidly in the young country as it employed circuit riders, many of whom were laymen, to travel the mostly rural nation by horseback to preach the Gospel and to establish churches until there was scarcely any village in the United States without a Methodist presence.

In the end of the 11th century, the village curled around a medieval castle and the Saint Julien church.

The old village and the Saint Julien church were demolished to make room for buildings housing the administrative services managing the daily life in the castle.

Its former village square including the old church is still present.

Raised a Roman Catholic, he was the son of the sexton of the village church, Friedrich Heidegger, and his wife Johanna, née Kempf.

On 2 May 1769, at El Rincón, near Río de la Hacha, they set their village afire, burning the church and two Spaniards who had taken refuge in it.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

In 1820 the family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

* St Ewe, village in Cornwall

Shaw's home, now called Shaw's Corner, in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire is a National Trust property, open to the public.

A traffic-free route for cyclists and pedestrians links Saint Helier to La Corbière and a branch of this route ends up at St Peter's village passing Jersey Airport.

He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's in the village of Burpham, Sussex.

The Mackinac Bridge carries Interstate 75 and the Lakes Michigan and Huron components of the Great Lakes Circle Tours across the straits and connects the city of St. Ignace on the north end with the village of Mackinaw City on the south.

The inhabitants were drawn chiefly from Montauriol, a village which had grown up around the neighbouring monastery of St Théodard.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

* A storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

* In 741 and 744, documents in the archives of St. Gallen Abbey describe the village of Kempraten as Centoprato, another document in 863 as Centiprata, inspired by the Latin name Centum Prata.

* In 741 and 744, documents in the archives of St. Gallen Abbey describe the village of Kempraten as Centoprato, another document in 863 as Centiprata, inspired by the Latin name Centum Prata.

Christine was born in the small village of Bouth in the Lake District of England and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham, where her father, Cyril P. A. Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham.

The memory of St. Eucherius still clings to three vast caves near the village of Beaumont, whither, it is said, the people of Lyon had to go in search of him when they sought him to make him their archbishop.

Nearby city districts include Glasnevin and Ballymun while the village of St. Margaret's is a little to the north.

Nevil Maskelyne is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, the parish church of the village of Purton, Wiltshire, England.

In May 1845, Bruckner passed an examination, which allowed him to begin work as an assistant teacher in one of the village schools of St. Florian.

On the French side, the units holding St. Privat lost more than half their number in the village.

He fell back to a previously reconnoitred position on an escarpment at Mont St Jean, a few miles south of the village of Waterloo.

The oldest mention of a village called Jordi de Sassaro is in an 1131 document in the archive of the Monastery of St. Peter in Silki.