Sentence examples for order of monks from inspiring English sources

Monastery, local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks.

In the opening scene he survives a lightning storm and is so grateful to God that he quits law school to join an Augustinian order of monks.

In a case in Morristown, one party might be said to have a special claim; it is the Benedictine Order of monks, who own St. Mary's Abbey.

Palladino, who died in late February at 83, joined the Trappist order of monks in New Mexico in 1950, according to a 2003 profile in Reed Magazine.

His god's-eye mission of benevolent oversight doesn't shield him from the crackdowns being instigated by a mighty order of monks.

He was saved by a reclusive order of monks who recognized that his villainy was the result of an unhappy childhood.

The book is Ignaz Edler von Born's Specimen of the natural history of the various orders of monks, printed in London in 1783.

For the next 45 years, the Buddha spread his message throughout northeastern India, established orders of monks and nuns, and received the patronage of kings and merchants.

The monarchs were interested in the reform of the secular clergy and still more in that of the orders of monks, friars, and nuns; Isabella took a particular interest in the reform of the Poor Clares, an order of Franciscan nuns.

It was like being a nun eating with an order of Trappist monks.

Last year, Edgeley Road United Reformed Church was sold to the Thai Wat Phra Dhammakaya, an order of Buddhist monks.