Saint Patrick founded many churches and monasteries across Ireland.Saint Patrick IconHoly Bishop Patrick, Faithful shepherd of Christ’s royal flock, You filled Ireland with the radiance of the Gospel: The mighty strength of the Trinity! Now that you stand before the Savior, ...
The Buddhist priests gather in monasteries; the superiors of a district or prefecture are called Seng-lu-sze; they are selected from the leading abbots (fang-chang); besides the superiors (Sengkang, Seng-cheng, Seng-hwei), there are preceptors, preachers, expositors, and clerks. Buddhism, ...
—St. Robert, son of the noble Thierry and Ermengarde of Champagne, was Abbot of Molesme, a monastery dependent on Cluny. Appalled by the laxity into which the Order of Cluny had fallen, he endeavored to effect reforms in the monasteries of Saint-Pierre-de-la-Celle, Saint-Michel of Tonn...
The history of academic tradition within the Catholic Church dates back to 13th-century monasteries, if not earlier. This long academic tradition has impacted the Catholic colleges of today. Academic excellence is one of the most important characteristics of a Catholic education. What programs are ...
“The mujahidin in the Islamic State of Iraq give Egypt’s Christian and belligerent Church as well as its chief of infidelity a 48-hour ultimatum to disclose the status of our sisters in religion, who are held captive in Egypt’s monasteries of infidelity and churches of polytheism,” al...
He was also a tireless builder of Churches and Monasteries which helped strengthen the presence of the Church. One of his major contributions was the foundation of the Monastery of St Maurice on the Werder in the Town of Minden. The Monastery was an important centre of culture, education and...
and that the country already had bishops and priests when Rome “usurped” their authority. Elizabeth was citing the authority of the sixth-century monk Gildas, whose shrine at Glastonbury Abbey had been destroyed when King Henry VIII suppressed all the monasteries, convents and friaries in Englan...
of a noble family. In 1112 he joined the new monastery at Cîteaux. This had been founded fourteen years before, in a bid to reject the laxity and riches of much of the Benedictine Order of the time (as exemplified by the great monasteries such as Cluny) and to return to a primitive...
monastery, which afterward became known as the celebratedAbbeyof Clairvaux.St. Bernardwas at once appointedAbbotand began that activelifewhich has rendered him the most conspicuous figure in the history of the 12th century. He founded numerous other monasteries, composed a number of works and ...
in between the wars; it was done sometimes at the castle where Romano Guardini would have his group of students meet; it was done in Austria near Vienna by Pius Parsch in a special church, in what he called a “liturgical Mass.” That’s an odd expression, a “liturgical Mass.” The...