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Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh Abu Ghosh monastery. The Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, officially St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey, [1] (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Résurrection d'Abu Gosh) is a monastery run by the Olivetan Benedictine order in Abu Ghosh, Israel.
The Resurrection Church [1] [2] (Hebrew: הכנסייה הצלבנית באבו גוש Latin: Ecclesia Resurrectionis Domini Nostri Iesu), or the Church of the Crusaders in Abu Gosh, is the name given to a Catholic religious building consisting of a structure of the time of the Crusaders who belonged to the Knights Hospitaller, and today is a part of the Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh, [3 ...
Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in Spain" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Monastery of San Xulián de Samos;
Monasteries in this area were historically founded mainly by kings, bishops and nobles.There were a number of reasons individuals might found a monastery, largely self-serving ones: to reserve a burial there, which came with perpetual prayers by the monks on behalf of the founder's soul, sheltering a princess, widow, unmarried or bastard, in the case of kings.
The monastery is 48 kilometres (30 mi) northwest of Barcelona, and can be reached by road, train or cable car.The abbey's train station, operated by FGC, is the terminus of a rack railway connecting with Monistrol, and two funiculars, one connecting with Santa Cova (a shrine and chapel lower down the mountain) and the other connecting with the upper slopes of the mountain.
The Abbot of Montserrat, Miquel Muntadas, ordered its reconstruction in 1862. Until in 1940, it served a community of Benedictine nuns; it was associated with the monastery of Sant Pere de les Puelles. In 1954 the nuns moved to a new monastery, Sant Benet, and since then the building has operated as a refuge for hikers and as a meeting center.
Maresme Charterhouse (Cartuja de San Pablo del Mar de Maresme), Maresme, Arenys de Mar (Barcelona) (1269–1433; a Benedictine priory of Lérins Abbey founded no later than the 10th century; fell into ruin and bought by the Carthusians in 1265; settled from Scala Dei 1269; community moved to Montalegre with the former community of Valparaíso ...
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