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The original monastery was founded in 361, at a site offered by the bishop Hilary of Poitiers, to Hilary's protégé Martin of Tours, to whom it was later dedicated.The site was described as "deserted" in early writings about the abbey, such as the account of the noted historian, Gregory of Tours, who made a pilgrimage to the abbey in 591 to honor his predecessor in the episcopal see.
The abbey was founded by Saint Martin of Tours (316-397), in 372, after he had been made Bishop of Tours in 371. [1] Martin's biographer, Sulpicius Severus (c. 363–c. 425), affirms that Martin withdrew from the press of attention in the city to live in Marmoutier (Majus Monasterium), the monastery he founded several miles from Tours on the opposite shore of the river Loire.
The monastery was founded in 1133 by Margrave St. Leopold III of Austria, at the request of his son Otto, soon to be abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Morimond in Burgundy and afterwards Bishop of Freising. Its first twelve monks together with their abbot, Gottschalk, came from Morimond at the request of Leopold III.
It seems that the first Celtic monasteries were merely settlements where the Christians lived together—priests and laity, men, women, and children alike—as a kind of religious clan. [32] According to James F. Kenney, every important church was a monastic establishment, with a small walled village of monks and nuns living under ...
Pachomius the Great founds a monastery at Tabennisi with more than 100 monks and a monastery at Pabau. [1] He also creates the cenobitic system of monastic governance in which the monks are subject to an abbot. [16] [17] [4] Pishoy is born. 324: Constantine the Great becomes the sole emperor of all of Rome. [4] [13] 325: First Ecumenical ...
The Grande Chartreuse was also described by William Wordsworth in his 1792 Descriptive Sketches (lines 53-73), and in the 1850 revision of The Prelude, Book VI (lines 416-18), (Wordsworth visited the monastery in 1790, but he describes the 1792 expulsion of the monks by French forces); and John Ruskin's Praeterita.
The first monastic house at the site was founded in 1116 by Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz, as a house of Augustinian canons. It was then bestowed by him in 1131 upon the Benedictines . [ 2 ] This foundation failed to establish itself, and the successor, Kloster Eberbach , was founded in 1136 [ 3 ] by Bernard of Clairvaux as the first Cistercian ...
There was the monastery on the Mount of Olives, from which Palladius went forth on his tour of the Egyptian monasteries; there were two monasteries for women in Jerusalem, built by Melania and her granddaughter Melania the Younger respectively. At Bethlehem, St. Paula founded three monasteries for women and one for men about 387. There was ...