Sentence examples for saints monastery from inspiring English sources

After its reconstruction, the monastery was transferred to the authority of the Intercession of the Saints Monastery in Kiev.

In Monodendri, we parked in the square and walked for 10 minutes to 15th-century Saint Paraskevi monastery, built into the side of a gorge, where saints stare down from carefully restored frescos.

Precisely, perhaps, because of its geography, the Saint John monastery has fallen into a kind of specialty, that of tending to the souls of people like Mr. Fleming — ambitious and intellectual, enmeshed in the material world, yet craving some way of detaching long enough from the cosmopolitan cacophony to hear the whisper of God.

A portable icon in Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, dated around 1700, shows the saint mounted on horseback.

When they visit the monastery Saint-Matthieu-des-Pyrénées-Orientales, Helen feels Dracula's presence and is compelled to jump off a cliff.

Important literary contributions in Kannada were made not only by court poets but also by noblemen, commanders, ministers, ascetics and saints associated with monasteries.

These stand alongside the reconstructed Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Saints Cyril and Methodius and several other Serbian religious monuments.

Soon after his arrival, Augustine founded the monastery of Saints Peter and Paul, which later became St Augustine's Abbey, on land donated by the king.

Bede ( ; ; 672/673 – 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at the monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow), Northeast England, both of which were located in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

In 1125, however, he accepted election as abbot of the remote Breton monastery of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys.

In France, his body was exhumed and reburied three more times before coming to rest in a former Benedictine monastery in Saint-Germain-des-Près.