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Recent Examples of friaryHistorical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023 Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023 In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023 While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023 Experts say the ruins may be from the friary of St. Saviours, which was founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256, but its exact location had always been a mystery.—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022 Archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavate the remains of friars buried in the grounds of the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022 Put simply, the worms were much more common among the residents of the Augustinian friary.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022 The remains of an individual buried in an Augustinian friary, excavated in 2016 on the University of Cambridge's New Museums site.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
Allied forces have taken Sicily and begun the treacherous push up Italy’s boot, but the advance has stalled near the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a historic monastery planted atop a rocky hill in the Apennine Mountains.
Constructed initially just outside of Madrid in 1141, this monastery was occupied by Cistercian monks for almost 700 years before becoming storage and stables during the social revolution of the 1800s.
The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.
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Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.
Just two hours north of London, but what feels like an entire world away, the region is best known for its vast, dune-like beaches, crumbling medieval abbeys, and grande dame stately homes.
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Liam Hess,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
Over the next few centuries, the abbey’s importance as a place of study and prayer, as well as its political and cultural significance, only grew.
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