Monastic Collection (page 18)

Council of Amagni 2
The Council of Anagni, under Alexander IV, is notable for Thomas Aquinas (back to us in foreground)s defence of the attack on the monastic orders made by Paris university

Monks Playing Game
A group of monks from the Franciscan monastery of Gorheim, Germany, play a peculiar ball game

A Nun Takes the Veil
a Nun Takes the Veil

Nun with Umbrella
Taking the veil may protect her from contact with sin, but even a nun needs an umbrella to keep off the rain

Romance and Reality 1869
Convent Life - Romance and Reality

Grande Chartreuse / Aerial
LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE, Carthusian establishment near Grenoble, France, founded in 1084

Hysterical French Nun
In 17th century France, a hysterical nun breaks loose from her bonds and terrifies the convent with her insistence that she is possessed by demons

Monks and Legacy
Father Paul in his cups, or The private Devotion of a convent - monks make merry as the wine flows free

Religion / Monastic Life / M
After a jug of wine, monk and young woman prepare to make love by lamplight Date: late 18th Century

Binham Priory in Norfolk UK
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Monastic troglodyte (cave) dwellings carved in the rocks, Zelve, Cappadocia, Turkey, Europe

View of monastic dwellings in caves (troglodyte dwelling) at Goreme Open Air Museum, Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey, Europe

Canon / St Denis / 14th C
A canon of the Abbey of St Denis in red and white vestments

Dominican Monk / 14th C
A Dominican monk from Spain

German Monk / 12th C
A German monk in dark red habit and white cloak and hood

Cloister, Dubrovnik
One monk reads while another draws water from the well in the cloisters of the monastery of San Francesco at Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) Croatia

Agricultural Monks
French monks engaged in agriculture

Knight, Prince & Templar
A Knight, A Prince & an Knight of the martial monastic order of the Templars

Monastical Habits
Monastical habits - two monks are delighted to be visited by a nun, and she is charmed to meet them

Food for Monks
Food is brought to the monastery door - a deer, a swan, a basket of fish and lots of game

Lorgues / Rabida Convent
Columbus retires to the convent of La Rabida

2 Monks Meet a Nun, C13
Two monks meet a nun

A Nun Makes a Bolt
A French girl, incarcerated against her will in a convent at Marseille, makes a dramatic escape by clambering over a wall, where passers-by rush to her aid with a ladder

Wine of the Cloisters
German monks entertain a visitor with the wine of the cloister, while one of their number accompanies the revelry on the lute

Irish Monks Working
Irish monks clearing the ground for an extension to their accommodation

Celtic Monks Farming
Celtic monks in Wales working in their farmyard

Monks Farming
German monks farming

Monk Paints Statuette
A monk from the Benedictine monastery of Lerins. He achieved fame as an artist. The statue of St Theresa he is working on in the photo was bought by the Queen of Italy

Belgian Nuns Gardening
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, digging and hoeing their garden vegetable patch

Belgian Nuns
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, with hoes and spades and other gardening tools over their shoulders

Mrs Starr Mother Superio
Mrs Starr, Late Mother Superior of the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy at Hull: " I felt very uncomfortable."

Nun Enters Convent
A young lady enters a convent, despite the entreaties of an admirer : a scene from La fille devouee

Saint Pacomius
SAINT PACOMIUS Greek founder of monastic communities

Monks Misbehaving
Monks watch other monks misbehaving

Monk Presents Prayer Bk
ELFNOTH Abbot. Presenting a book of prayer to the Monastery of St. Augustin

Ecclesiastic Monks
Ecclesiastics

Monks Living it Up
Monks living it up

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