question 1 of 3 What is the primary role of an abbot? Supervises both temporal and secular matters in the monastery Leads the monastery in conducting outreach programs for the poor Communicates the needs of the monastery to the community and its leaders ...
What caused the Inquisition? What was the purpose of the Roman Inquisition? What happened during the Spanish Inquisition? What was Medieval Europe? What caused the Spanish Inquisition? What was a medieval villein? What is the medieval church?
Or, again, watch people at a gay evening. All come determined to be happy, with the kind of grim resolve with which one determines not to make a fuss at the dentist's. It is held that drink and petting are the gateways to joy, so people get drunk quickly, and try not to notice ...
it also turned the strangers along the monastery road into trusted friends. We were all here for a common purpose, and it wasn’t usually a text or a teacher or even a doctrine; it was simply a human longing (or intimation). I grew ever closer to the monks, a wildly talented an...
What is a medieval monastery? How were medieval castles defended? What were medieval houses made out of? What was the purpose of Medieval castles? What was a sanctuary in medieval times? Who lived in castles? What is the feudal system in medieval Europe?
At the story’s climax, the gruesome twosome spring a huge trap on the Dark Angels in order to assault their flying fortress monastery, The Rock, and claim the final piece of the Key: an ancient technological device called the Tuchulcha Engine, which the Dark Angels had been hiding deep ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one officer
Alderney is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.Alderney is the closest of the Channel Islands to both England and France, and is separated from the Cap de la Hague in France’s Normandy region by the Alderney Race, described as a dangerous passage because of the strong currents...
the Colonnaded Street, then tackle the stepped climb to Petra’s largest monument, the Monastery, carved from a mountain summit. Budget some downtime to take in the extraordinary late-afternoon views from the Qasr al-Bint temple up the Colonnaded Street towards the fiery East Cliff. Visiting...
A convent is a community of nuns; a monastery is home to monks. Both are places of religious retreat, but their residents differ.