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friary

[frahy-uh-ree] / ˈfraɪ ə ri /




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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

He built the two houses, the friary for the lay brethren and the monastery for the monks.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)

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

He founded three friaries and he set himself to crush the Lollards.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

They met with great success, and at the founder's death the Dominicans had as many as sixty friaries in various European cities.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

A plea put in by the deputy on behalf of six friaries in consideration of their special services to education and their hospitality was not heard.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

This arrangement is frequent in Ireland, where the numerous small friaries afford admirable exemplifications of these peculiarities of ground-plan.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg




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