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The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by twenty monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.
The monastery was founded in the 1380s by Duchess Uliana of Tver, wife of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Algirdas ordered the construction of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in this monastery. About 1392–1393, after Algirdas' death, Uliania took the vows of schema in her monastery. From the mid-17th century till 1839, the monastery was ...
The Monastery of The Holy Spirit, known locally as Kirk Edge Convent is a Carmelite monastery for nuns. It is situated on Kirk Edge Road between the villages of Worrall and High Bradfield within the boundaries of the City of Sheffield, England. It is one of 18 carmels in the United Kingdom. [1]
The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was established in 1609 by the Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity, which subsequently adopted the name Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit. [2] This brotherhood, consisting of several hundred members from both the artisan class and the aristocracy, had been active since 1585.
Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The Diocese of Vilnius and Lithuania (Lithuanian: Vilniaus ir Lietuvos vyskupija; Russian: Виленская и Литовская епархия), also known as the Lithuanian Orthodox Church (Lithuanian: Lietuvos stačiatikių bažnyčia; Russian: Литовская православная церковь), is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church whose ...
The monastery's museum collections holds the 15th century Ahd-Namah (the Order) of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror guaranteeing security and freedom to the Franciscans. This document allowed the Franciscans of the day to preach freely among the Catholics in BiH, which in turn enabled the preservation of Bosnian Catholicism through the centuries.
English: An image of the interior of the abbey of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. Great care and effort were taken to portray as closely as possible the true colors and light level perceived by a dark-adapted human eye.
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