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Like Buddhist and Christian monasteries elsewhere, the Mongolian monasteries have since the 16th century acquired riches and secular dependents, gradually increasing their wealth and power. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Outer Mongolia had 583 monasteries and temple complexes, which controlled an estimated 20 percent of the country ...
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, or charterhouses, containing both extant and dissolved monasteries of the Carthusians (also known as the Order of Saint Bruno) for monks and nuns, arranged by location under their present countries. Also listed are ancillary establishments (distilleries, printing houses) and the "houses of refuge" used ...
Our Lady of Solitude Monastery, a Franciscan monastery located in Tonopah. [1] Santa Rita Abbey, a Trappistine monastery located in Sonoita. [2] St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery, a Greek Orthodox monastery located in Florence. [3] St. Paisius Orthodox Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in Safford. [4]
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
By the end of the 12th century, the order had spread throughout most of Europe. The keynote of Cistercian life was a return to literal observance of the Benedictine Rule. The reform-minded monks tried to live monastic life as they thought it had been in Benedict 's time; at various points they went beyond it in austerity.
Lists of monasteries cover monasteries, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The lists are organized by country or territory, by denomination, by order and by form.
Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel first historical recorded in 1155 [1] and their reform branch, the Discalced Carmelites (established in the 16th century) Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) founded 1209 [2] Order of Preachers (Dominicans) founded 1216 [3] Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians) founded in 1244 [4]