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you can hear the bells from the priory from the other side of the village
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Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey.
—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
By 1891, Pope Leo XIII raised the status of the priory to the rank of abbey.
—Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
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“Priory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/priory. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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