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  2. Suppression of monasteries - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of defunct Catholic religious institutes - Wikipedia

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    Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII: Revived in: 1983 (oblates in UK) 1998–2012 (Experiment in Brazil) 2017 (Canada) H Haudriettes: Early 14th century c. 1789 Not restored after the French Revolution: Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony: C.R.S. Ant. 1095 1803 Suppressed L Little Brothers of St. Francis: L.B.S.F. 1970 2012 ...

  4. List of monasteries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of Carthusian monasteries - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Dissolution of the monasteries - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of closed Catholic seminaries in the United States

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    St. Francis Seminary (Staten Island) - Closed by 1997; run by the Order of Friars Minor Conventual; St. John's Atonement Minor Seminary ( Montour Falls ) - Founded in 1923 in Garrison, New York for high school and junior college age candidates to the Society, relocated in 1948 and changed to a four-year institution in 1956, closed in 1967 ...

  8. Lists of monasteries - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of Cistercian monasteries - Wikipedia

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    Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but many were closed during the Protestant Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, the French Revolution, and the revolutions of the 18th century. Some survived and new monasteries have been founded since the 19th century.