Sentences with phrase «benedictine abbey»

The Monastery preserves the fingerprint of the different epochs that has lived, from the origins in the 10th century as Benedictine abbey up to being acquired by the family of the modernist painter Ramon Casas.

Along the way, we visit the Wieskirche Church and take a brief stop at the Ettal Benedictine Abbey before continuing the tour to visit Linderhof Castle.

Invigorating walks, crafts, antiques, models / collectables for the kids (and kids at heart) and a Benedictine Abbey will be sure to entertain and enlighten.

This morning your ship sails into Melk, a town that boasts a glorious Benedictine Abbey which stands on a rocky outcrop above the Danube.

Its magnificent 11th century Benedictine Abbey stands on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube and town, the prestigious Marble Room and the Abbey Church, generally considered one of the most beautiful baroque churches north of the Alps.

Visit Budapest and Vienna, as well as Regensburg and the Benedictine Abbey at Melk - all in the unparalleled comfort of a five - star cruise vessel.

A fishing settlement since the Middle Ages, the town grew around a Benedictine abbey built in the thirteenth century; the ruins of this stunning Gothic building, which dominate the town's headland, are an unmissable feature.

In Melk, you will visit Austria's majestic 11th - century Benedictine Abbey, one of Europe's largest monasteries.

A highlight will be a guided visit to the majestic Benedictine Abbey in Melk, one of Europe's largest monasteries, which sits high on a bluff overlooking the Danube.

This morning our ship sails into Melk, a town that boasts a glorious Benedictine Abbey which stands on a rocky outcrop above the Danube.

Visit Melk's impressive and breathtaking Benedictine Abbey, see Dürnstein's baroque Stiftskirche, and enjoy guided sightseeing in Slovakia's vibrant capital of Bratislava.

In Melk, Austria, visit the magnificent 11th - century Benedictine Abbey and enjoy a tasting of the Wachau Valley's famous wines.

CLASSIC Join a morning Guided Sightseeing Tour of Melk's 11th - century Benedictine Abbey.

Higher up again behind them was the episcopal palace and the ancient Benedictine abbey, whose history took one back hundreds of years into Erfurt's past; later, Napoleon would use it for stables, and today the German Democratic Republic uses it as a warehouse.

Luther felt things had begun to move at last when, early in March, the Abbot of Lehnin, a Benedictine abbey in the Diocese, was announced at the Friary.

They received a warm welcome from the famous Benedictine Abbey of Hersfeld.

Towards the end of June, Luther was horrified to hear that his old mentor had accepted the offer of the position of Abbot at a wealthy Benedictine abbey, St Peter's, in Salzburg.

His family, because of the prestige attached to the office, wished him to accept the headship of the famous Benedictine abbey of Monte Casino, where he had received part of his boyhood education and where his uncle had been abbot.

Godden respectfully narrates the inner - workings of a Benedictine abbey — the nuns» working out their salvation together, emotion, temptation, mystery, and all.

Pope Leo X became an abbot at the age of 8, and took over the great Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino aged just 11.

Suddenly in 1963, though engaged to be married, she left Hollywood and entered the Benedictine abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut.

The novel is a murder mystery set in an Italian Benedictine abbey in the year 1327.

Not exact matches

Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., is a Benedictine monk at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon.

Armijo is a nun in the Benedictine Order at the Abbey of St. Walburga in Colorado, not far from the Wyoming border.

Claire Waddelove belongs to the Benedictine community at St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight.

It begins with the arrival at the abbey of brothers William of Baskerville, a Franciscan friar, and Adso of Melk, a Benedictine novice and William's scribe.

For many years the sisters of the Abbey of St. Walburga, a Benedictine monastery, occupied a compound in downtown Denver.

He takes Hendra to see a Benedictine monk of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight for spiritual counseling.

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, a high school in Newark, New Jersey, run by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey, has recorded a near 100 percent college - acceptance rate for their predominantly African American and Latino young men — a rate that soars well above the average for the city.

Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.

This afternoon there is an included visit to the Benedictine monastery at Cluny, where we admire the grand abbey.

New Norcia Nut Cake baked in the monastery's wood - fired oven, premium Olive Oil is processed from the Benedictine Community olive grove and New Norcia Abbey Wines.

He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959.

Dom Sylvester Houédard (b. 1924, Guernsey, UK - d. 1992, UK) was a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

Dom Sylvester Houédard was a remarkable man and artist: a Benedictine monk based at Prinkash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.

Dom Sylvester Houédard (b. 1924, Guernsey, UK - d. 1992, UK) was a remarkable man: a Benedictine monk at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire who became a cult figure of counter-culture sixties London.