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Inge the Elder (oral tradition, [2] [3] if so moved later to Vreta Abbey) Canute I of Sweden [2] Eric X of Sweden [2] Eric XI of Sweden [2] Birger Jarl, his wife, Dowager Queen Matilda of Denmark, and his son Eric Birgersson [2] Björn Näf, knight, royal advisor, and teacher of Magnus Ladulås in the 13th century
Sithulpawwa Rajamaha Viharaya is an ancient Buddhist monastery located in Hambantota District, South Eastern Sri Lanka.Situated 18 km east of the pilgrimage town Katharagama, it is believed to have been built in the 2nd century B.C by king Kavantissa. [1]
'throne of the water spring'), is an Indo-Parthian archaeological site of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The site is considered among the most important relics of Buddhism in all of what was once Gandhara. [1] The monastery was founded in the 1st century CE, [2] and was in use until the 7th century. [1]
Bellapais Abbey (early 20th century) Bellapais Abbey (also spelled Bellapaïs [1]) is the ruin of a monastery built by Canons Regular in the 13th century on the northern side of the small village of Bellapais, now in Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus a breakaway state which is recognised only by Turkey in an area legally belonging to the Republic of Cyprus, about five kilometres from the town ...
Ruins at Rajagala Temple. Rajagalathenna or Rajagala Temple known in ancient times as the Girikumbhila Temple and it is situated half-way up the mountain. Once it was a great monastery patronized by the kings and princes of Ruhuna and Rajarata. In Prince Saddhatissa’s time that Rajagala really began to grow.
Samuel Lewis in his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, written in 1837, said of it: "Thomas, whose son, in 1263 or 1271, founded a Dominican monastery, called the Priory of St. Mary of Graces." This statue had made Youghal the centre of Marian devotion for several centuries, but ended after the priory was dissolved under King Henry VIII in ...
Kursi (Medieval Greek: Κυρσοί, Hebrew: כורסי, Arabic: الكرسي) is an archaeological site in the Golan Heights containing the ruins of a Byzantine monastery and identified by tradition as the site of Jesus' "Miracle of the Swine". [1] Part of the archaeological site is now an Israeli national park.
The Abbey of Saint Galgano was a Cistercian Monastery founded in the valley of the river Merse between the towns of Chiusdino and Monticiano, in the province of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. Presently, the roofless walls of the Gothic style 13th-century Abbey church still stand. San Galgano sword in the stone at Eremo di Montesiepi