Sentence examples for conventual from inspiring English sources

Formerly a conventual church belonging to the Hospitaller order, this church is outwardly austere but inwardly sumptuous and is now almost equal in rank to the archbishop's cathedral at Mdina.

El Greco's first commission in Spain was for the high altar and the two lateral altars in the conventual church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo at Toledo (1577 79).

Permission was granted, and Caravaggio began work on the largest of all his paintings, The Beheading of St. John, for the oratory of the conventual church, now cocathedral, of Valletta in Malta.

Conflict with the secular priesthood naturally resulted; the seculars attempted unsuccessfully to exclude the mendicants from the ministry of sacraments and inveighed against conventual endowments that seemed to contradict the friars' professions of poverty.

I'd take refuge in trips to the bathroom, passing by Ombretta's conventual single bed and the prie-dieu beside it.

One of its two auxiliary bishops is a Conventual Franciscan.

The troubles of the Franciscans who were divided between those who stood for the absolute poverty prescribed by the rule and testament of St. Francis (the Spirituals) and those who accepted papal relaxation and exemptions (the Conventuals)—were an open sore for 60 years, vexing the papacy and infecting the whole church.

He supported the Conventuals and persecuted Spirituals who resisted his decision.

Papal decisions favoured the Conventuals, and the Spirituals ceased to be a faction of importance in the order after 1325.

Though several attempts were made to reconcile them with the Conventuals, the outcome was in fact a complete separation in 1517, when all the reform communities were united in one order with the name Friars Minor of the Observance, and this order was granted a completely independent and autonomous existence.

Early in his pontificate, John intervened in a long-standing conflict between two factions in the Franciscan order the Spirituals, who favoured strict adherence to St. Francis' rule of poverty, and the Conventuals, who held to a broader interpretation.