When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

When abbots dined in their own private hall, the Rule of St Benedict charged them to invite their monks to their table, provided there was room, on which occasions the guests were to abstain from quarrels, slanderous talk and idle gossiping.

When at last successful, he was excommunicated by Pope Callixtus II for having expelled the monks of Saint-Gilles, who had aided his enemies.

When monks and nuns who follow the Theravadan way feed themselves by alms, they must eat leftover foods which are given to them, including meat.

When news of his death at the Council of Constance in 1415 arrived, disturbances broke out, directed primarily against the clergy, and especially against the monks.

When he was about seventy-five years of age, the monks of Sinai persuaded him to become their Igumen.

When he was nine years old Muralitharan was sent to St. Anthony's College, Kandy, a private school run by Benedictine monks.

When he caught an epidemic disease ( probably plague ), he called the monks, strengthened their faith, and appointed his successor.

When creating this chapel the monks of Peterborough had thought of how they had acquired it and built into the chapel a narrow tower-just big enough for a monk to climb to the top by an internal stair and stand guard over Oswald's Arm 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

When the appropriate time will come ( often many years ), the monks will discover the hidden text ; when the world is ready for it.

When monks came to him to settle the dispute over Sandwhich, he " lay and grew black as they spoke ".

When the populace came to the defense of the monks, the resulting clashes saw 30 civilians killed and 200 wounded.

When an Orthodox nun dies, the sisterhood of her convent performs the same ministrations for her as are done for monks.

A great deal of destruction was done to the tombs over the centuries by quarrying and by their conversion for use as housing, both by monks in the Byzantine period, when some were used as churches, and later by Muslim villagers: " When the Arab village was built ; tombs were destroyed, incorporated in houses or turned into water cisterns and sewage dumps.

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.

When Archbishop Edsige of Canterbury died in 1051 the monks of the cathedral chapter elected Æthelric, a relative of Earl Godwin's, as archbishop.

When King John discovered that Reginald had been elected without any royal input he forced the monks to elect de Gray as archbishop.

When he went north to suppress the Phra Fang faction, he could see that monks in the north were lax and undisciplined.

When the monks opened this chest they found two books: the “ Marrow Cleansing Classic ,” and the “ Muscle Tendon Change Classic ”, or " Yi Jin Jing " within.

When the Pope, however, wished the monks from Constantinople to undertake that the names of Acacius and Mongus should be rejected from the diptychs, they replied that they had no instructions on that point.

When Chaereas entered Edessa on April 12, 449, to commence the trial, he was met by a mob of abbots and monks and their partisans, clamoring for the immediate expulsion and condemnation of Ibas and his followers.

When his monks copied these texts, Cassiodorus encouraged them to amend texts for both grammar and style.

" When he realized he was being used as a tool by Theophilus against Saint John Chrysostom, who had given refuge to the monks persecuted by Theophilus and who were appealing to the emperor, Epiphanius started back to Salamis, only to die on the way home in 403.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

When Thompson and her daughter began a correspondence which included fervent verses from Pantasaph, Mrs. King felt a proper Victorian alarm.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When the algae began to build up again, the effluent BOD rose.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

When dam construction began in 1933, fewer than 600 boats used these waters ; ;

When a fisherman brought her up in his arms, still, small, as if she were a child asleep, I began to shudder with a terrible excitement, almost triumphant, that I still cannot account for.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

When people started to study scientifically how to fly, people began to understand the basics of air and aerodynamics.

When blacks began singing adapted versions of these hymns, they were called Negro spirituals.

When the North Tower was struck at 8: 46 a. m., many executives began evacuating their employees from the upper floors of the South Tower.

When Sultan Murad V began to show signs of paranoia, madness and continuous fainting and vomiting even on the day of his coronation and threw himself into a pool yelling at his guards to protect his life, they were afraid the public would become outraged and revolt to bring the former Sultan back.

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

When the original digital signature generating software was turned over to the Atari community, development of new Atari 7800 titles began.

When the trade association began, it had seven members and its main goal was to eliminate all duties and restrictions on the majority of their trade within 12 years.

Beethoven's friend Anton Schindler, later said: " When he started working on the fourth movement the struggle began as never before.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

When Selig was only three, Marie began taking him and his older brother, Jerry, to Borchert Field, where the minor league Milwaukee Brewers played.

When the Luftwaffe began bombing Moscow, Pasternak immediately began to serve as a fire warden on the roof of the writer's building on Lavrushinski Street.