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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 ...
Community of Jesus, a Benedictine monastery located in Orleans. Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard.
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.
A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1964). Bell, James B. A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution. (2008). 323 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-54297-6; Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the cope of heaven: Religion, society, and politics in Colonial America (2003). Bonomi, Patricia U., and Peter R. Eisenstadt.
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The Book of Common Prayer offered prayers for the monarch, beseeching God "to be his defender and keeper, giving him victory over all his enemies," who in 1776 were American soldiers as well as friends and neighbors of American Anglicans. Loyalty to the church and to its head could be construed as treason to the American cause.
Benedictine monasteries in the United States (1 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in North America" This category contains only the following page.
Priory of St. Joseph, Guatemala: "The monastery was founded by Marmion Abbey on June 10, 1965, and raised to a dependent priory on November 24, 1967". [ 4 ] St. Benedict Priory in Benet Lake, Wisconsin: "The monastery was founded by Conception Abbey on March 21, 1945, was raised to a conventual priory on December 15, 1950, and to the status of ...