friary

Example Sentences

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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

Old Hall, which dates back to the 16th Century, was a convent, an army barracks and a friary before it was bought in 1974 by 14 families who formed the community.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 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 Barclay, Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth)