friary
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Most of the dead were buried in town cemeteries or plague pits such as one on Bene't Street next to the former friary.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
By the mid-20th Century, what had once been a religious friary had become a site for a school, council offices and a car park.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023
They also collected similar samples from 25 nonmonastic skeletons interred around the same time at a rural parish around a kilometer away from the friary ruins.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
Mr. McCarrick, who has never been criminally charged, has been living in an undisclosed location since leaving a Capuchin friary in Kansas in January.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
No; he stayed just as humble and retiring as he was in the days when he used to wash dishes in the mountain friary.
From Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light by Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth) Barclay
Many friaries were even outfitted with running water systems—a luxury absent from even aristocratic households of the time—to allow the friars to wash their hands.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
As examples of English friaries, the Dominican house at Norwich, and those of the Dominicans and Franciscans at Gloucester, may be mentioned.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Lord Cork reported that "he had set up two houses of correction in dissolved friaries, in which the beggarly youths are taught trades."
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey
He devoted his energies to training up lecturers who should go to the Franciscan friaries in the chief towns in England and Wales and teach friars and clergy the art of popular preaching.
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
The Carmelite friars seem to have flourished especially in England, where at the dissolution of the monasteries there were some 40 friaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
