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Monastery death (French: mort civile des religieux) was a feature of French law until the 18th century. Similar to the distinction between different German territories, French legal scholars discussed whether the monastery or nunnery succeeded the monk or nun, or whether the civil death of the person in holy order resulted in inheritance by his ...
Gereon Karl Goldmann was born on 10 October 1916 in Ziegenhain (now part of Schwalmstadt, Hesse) as one of seven children of Karl Goldmann, a veterinarian, and his wife, Margarethe. After his wife's death in 1924, Karl Goldmann remarried, and the family moved to Cologne .
Muri Abbey (German: Kloster Muri) was a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. It flourished for over eight centuries at Muri, in the Canton of Aargau, near Zürich, Switzerland. While the monastery is currently established as Muri-Gries in South Tyrol, [1] the former abbey is now a museum and heritage site of national ...
A king and his wife are seen sitting in the stone, in what appears to be the medieval chapel of a royal building. Through an open window, the view falls on the horizon of a sea. The expression of grief in the royal figures is because of the death of their daughter. Her coffin stands against the wall, hidden under a dark blanket.
The hill was inhabited before the abbey was founded. Excavations have uncovered massive walls and a moat from the 10th century. [2]: 3 After the creation of the Bishopric of Bamberg by King (and later Emperor) Heinrich II (Henry II), the first Bishop of Bamberg, Eberhard I [], founded the abbey in 1015 as the bishop's private monastery.
Sattler was born around 1490 in Staufen, Germany. [2] He became a Benedictine monk in the abbey of St. Peter, and probably became a prior. [2] He left St. Peter's probably in May 1525, when the monastery had been taken by troops from the Black Forest fighting in the German Peasants' War. [3]
Heiligenkreuz Abbey (German: Stift Heiligenkreuz; English: Abbey of the Holy Cross) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world.
The monastery was home to scholars who valued old alphabets. A late 16th century book from the monastery has a marginal gloss in perfectly correct runic writing. [5] In 1648 the Swedes pillaged and devastated the town and the monastery. [1] Under Provost Athanasius Peitlhauser the monastery was rebuilt between 1657 and 1659. [1]