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  HighBeam Encyclopedia - abbey
ABBEY [abbey] monastic house, especially among Benedictines and Cistercians, consisting of not less than 12 monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess.
In the Benedictine expansion after the 8th cent., abbeys were often important centers of learning and peaceful arts and, like Fulda, were sometimes the nuclei of future towns.
The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost and its role in manuscript anthologies.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a1/abbey.asp   (336 words)

  
 Abbey: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Abbey, Edward--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Sex--Portrayals, Sexual behavior--Portrayals, Sexuality in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Sexuality--Criticism and interpretation, Sexuality--Portrayals, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
WESTMINSTER ABBEY originally the abbey church of a Benedictine monastery (closed in 1539) in London...statesmen and distinguished subjects have been given burial in the Abbey since the 14th cent.
In 1626 the abbey was moved to Paris because of the unsalubrious...influence of Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, the abbey soon became the prime center of Jansenism...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/abbey.jsp?l=A&p=1   (1690 words)

  
 Building - Abbey National Building Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Abbey in DC of Benedictine monks of the English Congregation.
Abbey of nuns of The Cistercians of the Strict Observance. (Trappistines) Sonoita, Arizona
Quarr Abbey an abbey in the Solesmes Congregation, originally founded as a refuge for French monks in times of persecution. History, location and schedule available.
www.buildingbase.com /abbeynationalbuildingsociety   (1915 words)

  
 OSB. Brother/Sister Benedictine Monasteries
Abbey of Bec-Hellouin (M) and the Benedictine Oblate Sisters of Saint Frances of Rome (W) Simiane Collongue
Quarr Abbey (M) & St. Cecilia's Abbey (W)
Mount Saint Scholastica (W) and Saint Benedict's Abbey (M) Massachusetts
www.osb.org /gen/brosis.html   (390 words)

  
 MusicaSacra.com | Church Music Association of America: February 2005
We were so very pleased about this item in the local paper (despite the inevitable imprecisions)
Gregory) Oblate of Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, composer, professor of chant, organist, choirmaster, died on the 3rd of February, at Greenville Hospital, Jersey City, New Jersey, of congestive heart failure.
Born in 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Burns held church positions in New Orleans, St. Louis, numerous churches in New Jersey: Bayonne, Jersey City, Union City, Short Hills, Garfield, and was director of music for the Dominican Sisters, Union City, NJ for over forty years.
www.musicasacra.com /blog/archive/2005_02_01_sacredmusic_archive.html   (716 words)

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