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Minster, also known as Minster-in-Thanet, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England.It is the site of Minster in Thanet Priory.The village is west of Ramsgate (which is the post town) and to the north east of Canterbury; it lies just south west of Kent International Airport and just north of the River Stour.
Minster Abbey is the name of two abbeys in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, England. The first was a 7th-century foundation which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Beside its ruins is St Mildred's Priory, a Benedictine community of women founded in 1937. [2]
Edburga was a friend and student of Saint Mildrith, abbess of Minster-in-Thanet. [1] She was reputed to be zealous in the pursuit of knowledge. [2] In 716, Edburga became a Benedictine nun at the abbey. She corresponded with Saint Boniface and Lullus. [3]
The minster's primary purpose was to support the king and the thegn in the regular worship of the divine office; especially through intercession in times of war. Minsters are also said to have been founded, or extensively endowed, in expiation for royal crimes; as for example Minster-in-Thanet near Ramsgate.
The Kentish Royal Legend is a diverse group of Medieval texts which describe a wide circle of members of the royal family of Kent from the 7th to 8th centuries AD. Key elements include the descendants of Æthelberht of Kent over the next four generations; the establishment of various monasteries, most notably Minster-in-Thanet; and the lives of a number of Anglo-Saxon saints and the subsequent ...
Minster in Thanet Priory, on the Isle of Thanet, Kent. Domne Eafe (Old English pronunciation: [ˈdomne ˈæɑve]; floruit late 7th century), also Domneva, Domne Éue, Æbbe, Ebba, was, according to the Kentish royal legend, a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery of Minster in Thanet Priory at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin King ...
Minster Abbey Minster, Thanet: Abbey: 1937: 6 February 1958 1223807: Minster Abbey. More images. Church of Saint Mary Magdalene ...
Sister Concordia Scott (1924 – 2014) was a Scottish sculptor and Benedictine nun, of the Minster Abbey community, [1] Minster-in-Thanet, Kent.Her commissioned works have included statues for Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral and the National Shrine of Wales as well as numerous sculptures currently in Europe and the United States of America.