Sentence examples for become prior from inspiring English sources

By this time he had already grown close to Girolamo Savonarola, the fearsome millenarian preacher who had recently become Prior of the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence.

Tate Modern director Chris Dercon followed up in his keynote speech: "such museums seem to have become prior to art".

He rose in the service of Abbot Waltheof, and by the time of the short abbacy of Waltheof's successor Abbot William, Jocelin had become prior.

In 1480 Piero became prior of the Confraternita di San Bartolomeo.

In 1541 he became prior of San Frediano at Lucca, where he gathered a teaching staff and introduced both monastery and congregation to Reformed doctrine and worship.

The son of noble parents, Robert entered the Benedictine monastery of Moutier-la-Celle near Troyes as a youth and soon became prior.

A Muslim merchant who had been converted to Christianity and, as Enbaqom (Habakkuk), became prior of the monastery of Debre Libanos, wrote Anqasʾa amin ("Gate of Faith") to justify his conversion and to persuade apostates to recant.

In the years 1482 85 he served in the convent of San Marco at Florence; he returned there at the express wish of Lorenzo de' Medici and became prior in 1491.

He became prior of Fonte Avellana in 1043, and led the monastery to a new prosperity.

He became Prior of Cluny Abbey, then Prior of Abbeville, a Cluniac house.

Subsequently he became prior of the Augustinian priory at St Osyth in Essex, appointed by Richard de Beaumis, Bishop of London, in 1121.