Sentence examples for secular canons from inspiring English sources

John replaced the secular canons of Down priory with Benedictine monks from St. Werburgh's abbey, Chester.

In the 11th century monasteries continued to be productive and new houses were founded; there was also a movement to impose a communal life on bodies of secular priests and to found houses of secular canons.

The medieval town grew around the remains of the Roman castrum (fort) and a house of secular canons, which was founded in the 8th century in honour of St. Ursus.

Cloisters were also attached to colleges of secular canons, as at the cathedrals of Lincoln, Salisbury, and Wells; and the colleges of Eton and Winchester, as well as New College and Magdalen College at Oxford, also have cloisters.

Cathedrals were constructed, staffed either with secular canons in the European tradition or, uniquely to England, chapters of monks.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, all the previously monastic cathedrals became governed by secular canons like the first group.

The apparent reason, Professor Bellah's colleagues said this week, was that in the ardently secular canon of the hard sciences, religion was deemed an insufficiently rigorous subject for scholarly scrutiny.

His writings cover a wide range of topics in an even greater range of genres, including homilies (or sermons), secular laws, religious canons, and political theory.

Both secular law and canon law, or ecclesiastical law, were studied in the High Middle Ages.

Mr. Slader said that if the assets of the diocese were tallied under secular law rather than canon law, counting the parishes' assets as part of the total diocese assets, the figure would be closer to a half-billion dollars.

The oppression of women due to gender constructs, not allowing women basic citizenship rights such as to vote (for example) was often robustly justified in peer review religious and scientific journals, as well as affirmed by both religious canon and secular legal courts, including the Supreme Court.