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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 ...
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.
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.
Valley of Our Lady Monastery Nuns (Common Observance) 1957 Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin: The first Cistercian nunnery in the United States, founded by nuns from the Swiss Abbey of Frauenthal. Our Lady of Dallas Abbey: Common Observance 1958 Irving, Texas: Founded from the Cistercian monastery of Zirc in Hungary.
2.4 United States. 3 Charterhouses for ... This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, ... (1238–1253; formerly a Benedictine abbey, founded end of the 12th century; ...
The Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1955 in Irving, Texas.The monks of the abbey operate Cistercian Preparatory School for boys. As of 2018, it is currently the only Cistercian monastery left in North America, alongside the Canadian Abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth [] in Rougemont, Quebec.
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.
People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries (63 P) Pages in category "Dissolution of the Monasteries" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.