Although the monastery is generous in donations, Emperor Xuanzong issues a decree abolishing their treasury on the grounds that their banking practices were fraudulent, collects their riches, and distributes the wealth to various other Buddhist monasteries, Daoist abbeys, and to repair statues, halls, and bridges in the city.

This monastery collected vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of anonymous people's repentances, leaving the donations on the monastery's premise.

A vast fortress-like monastery, Montmajour Abbey, was built on an island just north of Arles, and became a major destination for medieval pilgrims.

* 788: The Buddhist monk Saichō founds the monastery of Mt Hiei, near Kyoto, which becomes a vast ensemble of temples

This monastery collected vast amounts of money, silk, and treasures through multitudes of anonymous rich people's repentances, leaving the donations on the premises without providing their name.

In 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte dissolved the church in the Porta Nigra and the monastery beside it, along with the vast majority of Trier's numerous churches and monasteries.

Then they turned at Penwith Tail to the south and up into the mouth of the Tamar, travelling to Lydford, burning and slaughtering anything they came across, and burned down Ordwulf's monastery at Tavistock, carrying vast amounts of loot back to their ships.

The first theatre began as a venue for the Children of the Chapel Royal, child actors associated with the Queen's chapel choirs who from 1576 to 1584 staged plays in the vast hall in the former monastery.

There are several Kalmyk Buddhist temples in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where the vast majority of American Kalmyks reside, as well as a Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center and monastery in Washington Township, New Jersey.

The monastery had a very strong political and religious power and significantly influenced the history of a vast territory until 1446.

The vast walled area of the monastery comprises two separate priories with eleven churches, most of them dating to the 16th century.

Work on the vast square cloister ( 55 x 55 m ) of the monastery was begun by Boitac.

In Naples, his main work were twenty large frescoes illustrating the Life of St Benedict in the cloister of the monastery of Santi Severino e Sossio ( now the State Archives ), which are open to the elements though covered and are now greatly decayed ; they present a vast variety of figures and details, with dexterous modeling and coloring.

Such activities made the monastery a vast self-supporting complex, which occupied some of land.

Brother Roger's community and friends attended the liturgy in the vast monastery church at Taizé, while thousands more followed it on a huge screen in fields outside the church.

They also operate a green cemetery located in a secluded section of the vast monastery property.

* Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang allots the money of 20 million copper coins and assigns about 1, 000 craftsmen to construct a hall at a Buddhist monastery with tons of painted portraits of himself, and of deities, ghosts, etc.

Some of the money was spent on restoring and decorating the church of the Chora monastery in the northwest of Constantinople, where Metochites ’ donor portrait can still be seen in a famous mosaic in the narthex, above the entrance to the nave.

The monastery has a professional five-strong male-voice choir which tours the world to raise money for the on-going restoration of the buildings.

He also did not attend the second hearing on 23 August, but managed to attend on the re-scheduled date 5 November 1910, when he was sentenced " to withdraw to a house of priestly retreat or into a monastery of his choice, there to undertake spiritual exercises for a period of ten days " for trafficking in masses, and for accepting more money than he was able to say masses for.

Local Buddhist abbots of the various places he visited often would pay him money as well, for the small service of recording the history of their local monastery.

The following years of the Chaldean Church were marked by externally originating violence: in 1838 the monastery of Rabban Hormizd and the town of Alqosh was attacked by the Kurds of Soran and hundreds of Christian Syrians died and in the 1843 the Kurds started to collect as much money as they could from Christian villages, killing those who refused: more than ten thousand Christians were killed and the icons of the Rabban Hormizd monastery defaced.

She constructed a monastery and a church close to the royal abode, and settled priests and deacons there alloting from the court stipends and money for clothing.

Hariprasanna took up the job to save money for his mother's future and after enough money was secured for his mother's maintenance, he left the job to join the Alambazar monastery.

Today, in keeping with the observance of the Rule of St. Benedict, the monks of Gethsemani bring money to the monastery by producing Port Salut cheese, fruitcake and fudge — in addition to royalties received from sales of Thomas Mertons ' books.

Others also gave generously to Richarius's monastery, and he was able to use the money to help lepers and the poor and to ransom prisoners held by England.

Kay Ka ' us is reported to have been so impressed by this moderation that he performed more than the treaty required by sending an annual present of Arab horses to Andronikos and money to the St Eugenios monastery.

A remarkable piece adorning the monastery is the epitaphios by Anna Roth, made of silk and gold on a cotton base.

The oldest embroidery of the monastery, dated at the end of the 14th century, is a epitaphion made with silk and gold thread by Euphima, a Serbian nun, daughter of Vojihna, together with her daughter Euprasijka.

At three o ' clock, according to Cuthbert, he asked for a box of his to be brought, and distributed among the priests of the monastery " a few treasures " of his: " some pepper, and napkins, and some incense ".

In 1125, accompanied by an armed following, Pons took possession of Cluny Abbey, melted down the treasures stored in the monastery, and paid his followers, who continued to terrorise the monks and the villages dependent upon the abbey.

In 1796 the French arrived in Italy and only four years later Napoleon suppressed the monastery and sold its treasures.

Among the treasures which he is recorded to have bestowed upon the then-impoverished monastery is one famously described " mycel englisc boc be gehwilcum þingum on leoðwisan geworht " ( i. e., " a large English book of poetic works about all sorts of things ").

As librarian of the monastery he was soon acquainted with its rich treasures of medieval history and theology.

Among the historical treasures of the region are the Roman fort Milančeva Kula, Rmanj monastery, many medieval fortresses like Oštrovica medieval fortres above Kulen Vakuf and the Ostrožac Castle, to name just a few.

In 1289-1290, the chief treasures of the ruined monastery, including the remains of Saint Jevstatije I, were transferred to Peć.

The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery.

In 1291 the Mamluk advance into Syria compelled the friars on Carmel to abandon their monastery ; but on dispersing through Western Europe they found that Western Carmelite congregations – especially in Italy – had largely abandoned the eremetic and ascetic ideal, adopting instead the conventual life and mission of the other Mendicant orders.

48 ) shall be taught, so that by persevering in the monastery till death his disciples may " through patience share in the passion of Christ that may deserve also to share in his Kingdom " ( Prol.

Walking through the alley of the monastery

These are supplied through a conduit long, which is connected with the Darro at the monastery of Jesus del Valle, above Granada.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

Theodore also built the Studios monastery into a major scholarly center, in particular through its library and scriptorium, which certainly surpassed all other contemporary Byzantine ecclesiastical institutions in this regard.

The site now occupied by the Pennyfarthing Hotel dates from the 16th Century, having been a monastic building that offered accommodation to religious guests passing through Berkhamsted or going to the monastery at Ashridge.

To the east, the Catfish Road goes through a few miles of sparse farmland, interrupted by a few houses and a monastery, until it intersects Route 36, which leads north to Hollidaysburg and south to Roaring Spring.

When the monks first arrived in South Yorkshire from Newminster Abbey in Northumberland, they chose the most suitable side of the stream that runs through the valley, on which to build their new Cistercian monastery.

According to Morgan, " During the 10 years between the pardon and the indictment, while the suits filed by the victims ' families moved through the courts, Touvier returned to the monastery circuit.

While the Holy Chalice's exact journey through the centuries is disputed, it is generally accepted by Catholics that the Chalice was sent by his family to this monastery for preservation and veneration.

She explained that she had no reason to be alarmed when Filipović arrived at the school because he was based at the nearby Prebićevac monastery and was often seen passing through the villages.

Sarit Thanarat was educated at a monastery school, and entered the Royal Thai Military Academy in 1919, not completing his military studies until 1928, after which he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, slowly rising through the Officer Corps.

Areas retaining Latin-Lombard traditions used the notarius, but he may have been attached to and authorized through a palace, church, monastery, or even city ; or sometimes he was itinerant and without official authority.

The monastery was desolate between 1611 and 1715 after another attack of the Swedes, the buildings being burnt to the ground and the Karelian border between Russia and Sweden being drawn through Lake Ladoga.

It was taken through Communist-held territory in Yan ' an some 900 km on carts to safety at a Buddhist monastery, the Dongshan Dafo Dian, where it remained for ten years.

The hypothesis that Tintagel Castle had been a monastery during Period II was pioneered by the Devon archaeologist C. A. Ralegh Radford, who excavated at the site from 1933 through to 1938.

It is likely that Sven was educated at a monastery in Denmark, but given the knowledge of classical antiquity, that he displays through his writings, there is little doubt he received a more comprehensive education elsewhere, probably in one of the big Church-schools in France.

Today the modern road for through traffic has been routed around the outside of the monastery buildings to allow some integrity of the grounds.

The town's name is thought to derive from the name of the River Were, which runs through the town, and from an Anglo-Saxon minster or monastery, which may have existed at, or close to, the present site of St Denys's Church.

A controversial new M3 motorway linking the towns of Cavan and Kells with Dublin is scheduled to cut through farmland within sight of Ardbraccan House and the ancient monastery site in Ardbraccan, before slicing through the archaeologically sensitive site of Tara, the capital of Ireland under the Árd Rí ( High King of Ireland ) in mediæval times.