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The monasteries, being landowners who never died and whose property was therefore never divided among inheritors (as happened to the land of neighboring secular land owners), tended to accumulate and keep considerable lands and properties - which aroused resentment and made them vulnerable to governments confiscating their properties at times of religious or political upheaval, whether to fund ...
In total around 900 monasteries were closed. In addition, the abolition of chantries in 1547 and the conversion to Protestantism led to iconoclastic destruction of artwork in many churches. For a complete list of dissolved monasteries, see List of monastic houses in England and List of monastic houses in Wales.
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.
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. Year 2000 population was 10. [181] Girvin: Pecos [182] Glenrio: Deaf Smith: Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. Year 2000 population was 10. [183] Goforth: Hays [184] Gold, Texas: Gillespie
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 unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns , or census-designated places .
The Monastery and Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, a Roman Catholic monastery in Union City that closed in 1980. Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Union City. Newark Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Newark. St. Paul's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located near Newton.
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.