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2 days ago · Antonio and other Nordic seminarians during the Nordic Youth Days organized in 2017 in Vadstena, where Saint Bridget of Sweden founded the first monastery of her Bridgettine Order in the 14th century. Picture taken at the end of Mass in Vadstena Abbey Church.
2 days ago · Vienna / viˈɛnə / ⓘ vee-EN-ə [9] [10] (German: Wien [viːn] ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. [11] [12] Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, [13 ...
4 days ago · THE ABBEY OF VALE ROYAL. According to its own historian, Vale Royal owed its foundation to a vow made during a storm at sea by the future Edward I when he was returning from the Holy Land. He promised to found a Cistercian monastery in England, and endow it richly enough to maintain 100 monks for ever.
5 days ago · It must not be imagined that this powerful house of Benedictine monks was free from all outside visitation because of its being exempt from diocesan or archiepiscopal jurisdiction. The abbey was just as much subject to the general provincial chapter of the Benedictines as the humblest priory of the order.
4 days ago · The abbey of Holmcultram, situated in the low-lying district between Carlisle and the Solway, was founded as an affiliation of the great Cistercian house of Melrose by Prince Henry, son of David, King of Scotland, in the year 1150, (fn. 2) while he was ruler of the province ceded to Scotland by King Stephen and afterwards known as the county of ...
5 days ago · The beautiful Engelszell Abbey is located in Austria, on the banks of the Danube. This community of Trappist monks lives in silence to the rhythm of work and prayer. The community has only recently made a name for itself in the small circle of abbeys producing authentic Trappist beers.
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1 day ago · India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
