During his abbacy, he kept the Buckfast community abreast of changes in the outside world. |
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Under the abbacy of St Ailred, it flourished, becoming the largest Cistercian community in England. |
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Recalled by the emperor Michael II, who nevertheless favoured the iconoclastic party, Theodore was not allowed to resume his abbacy. |
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In 1693 Saint-Pierre gained a footing at court as almoner to the Duchess d'Orléans, who presented him with the abbacy of Tiron, a comfortable benefice. |
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Something has to be said about the genesis of his »political« works in the meeting between the exigencies of his abbacy on the one hand and the authoritative expérience collected in the library of his monastery on the other. |
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The two closest ones to the facade are rather larger than the others because they're the outcome of the widening completed in 1026 during the abbacy of St. Guido. |
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After Mazarin's death in 1661, Retz returned to France and in February 1662 agreed to resign the archbishopric of Paris in return for the abbacy of Saint-Denis and a substantial income. |
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Old abbacy on the edge of an historic village with amenities. |
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