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.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.

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

Most of the families moved to the nearby village of Dooagh, which is beside the sea, while some others emigrated.

The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.

It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.

There is a monument to him in his native village.

The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

" They must guard a village that is being shelled too heavily.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Portes is a fishing village on the east coast.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.

Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.