monastery
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Even at the New Camaldoli Hermitage, a Benedictine monastery above Lucia, the road’s reopening and coming summer season have made a difference.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
He reputedly then moved into a monastery for three months to recharge, taking only books and living without a phone or access to the internet.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
The American historian then announces that she has found the prized volume languishing in a monastery archive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Some of the buildings at the Thahtay Kyaung monastery, where saffron-clad monks cleared rubble from the wreckage by hand in the days after the quake, have been razed.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
When I’m finished delivering the telegrams there’s enough time to go to the ancient monastery graveyard where my mother’s relations are buried, the Guilfoyles and the Sheehans, where my mother wants to be buried.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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