It was chosen because of it's remoteness as it removed all the distractions of secular life from the priests.
Weiss's main subject is remoteness.
10 11 This may be due to the absence of tobacco manufacturing which could be affected by remoteness from global markets and lack of economies of scale, a common factor among SIDS internationally.
Scores for social disadvantage and residential remoteness were derived from the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) [ 23] and the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) [ 24] based on place of residence at the Australian Census date.
At Oort-cloud distances, the strength of this combined gravity adds up to the same sort of force as that exerted by the solar gravitational field, enfeebled as it is by its remoteness from the sun.
His overwhelming feeling, however, was one of remoteness from the war, like "a spider in his web among the weeds - at the foot of the Tower of Babel", or "a leaning 18th-century gravestone in a village churchyard", fanciful conceits which nevertheless convey his strong sense of isolation.
As can be seen from the map above, the strategic location of many of these cities, on the coasts at the mouth of navigable rivers, helped jump-start their development, but it was their relative remoteness from Beijing that gave them the opportunity.
Despite the changes in water level to which it is liable and its remoteness from markets, Lake Rukwa is third to Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika among the freshwater fisheries of Tanzania.
THE Dakota, the apartment building now at the very heart of civilization (or so we Upper West Siders like to think), was named for its remoteness from New York's population centers when it was new in 1884.
There's another thing that Orwell the great freelance would have been quick to identify: in the blogosphere, no one gets properly paid; its irresponsibility is proportionate to its remoteness from the cash nexus.
