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	Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westminster Abbey was for a short time a cathedral, and was a Benedictine monastery until the Reformation, and its Chapter preserves elements of the Benedictine tradition.
		In the nineteenth century monasticism was revived in the Church of England, leading to the foundation of such institutions as the House of the Resurrection, Mirfield (Community of the Resurrection), Nashdom Abbey (Benedictine), Cleeve Priory (Community of the Glorious Ascension) and Ewell Monastery (Cistercian).
		Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monastery (2210 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey and Congregation of Melk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Melk was much favoured by St. Luitpold III, and the new foundation rapidly grew and flourished, its corn tithes being so abundant that the folk-name for Melk was "at the full bushel".
		In the fourteenth century Melk, by permission of Duke Frederic I, had been fortified, and was thus able to resist successive sieges by Matthias Corvinus, by the revolted peasantry, by the Protestant States of Austria and by the Turks, though on each occasion the property of the abbey suffered.
		In 1889 the Abbey of Melk was included by Leo XIII in the Austrian Congregation of the Immaculate Conception.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10167a.htm (698 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Monastery
		Christian monasteries are also called abbey, priory, charterhouse, friary, and preceptory, while the habitation of nuns can also be called a convent.
		Thus in English-language usage, cathedrals, which were never monasteries, developed names such as York Minster, and abbeys could likewise be termed "minster" such as Westminster Abbey.
		Originally, all Christian monks were hermits, and especially in the Middle East this continued to be very common until the decline of Syrian Christianity in the late Middle Ages.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Monastery (1231 words)

	vind: melk schokken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Melk was a (subcamp of Mauthausen located approximately 100 km to the east of Linz (Austria)
		Melk Abbey was on the itinerary for The Washington Chorus in 2002.
		Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is an historic Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's test famous monastic sites.
	www.nails-beauty.nl /melk_schokken.html (184 words)

	Melk Abbey - Vienna, Austria
		Melk Abbey (German: Stift Melk) was originally a palace - and it shows.
		On the bank of the Danube River between Salzburg and Vienna, Melk Abbey stands crowned by towers and resplendent in golden ochre.
		The Benedictine monastic community of Melk is over 900 years old and fl-robed monks still stroll amidst the marble sculptures and frescoed walls.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /austria/melk-abbey.htm (346 words)

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