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  • FSSP retreat in France abbaye notre dame de sénanque

    Archive 2008-04-06 papabear 2008

  • Bon sinon avec le bateau on a fait l'tour de l'Ile-Barbe où l'on trouvait autrefois la "Librairie de Charlemagne" qui se trouvait dans une puissante abbaye qui fut occupé par un monastere bénédictains ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • The Renaissance and the Revolution swept away in most parts of the country moated castle, abbaye, grange, and chateau, to replace them with luxurious but conventional piles and ruins humbly restored and humbly inhabited.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Wishing-Cap, Wishing-Cap, let us away To walk in the cloisters, at close of day Once trod by friars of order gray, In Norman Selskar's renown'd abbaye, And Carman's ancient town; For I would kneel at my mother's grave, Where the plumy churchyard elms wave, And the old war walls look down.

    Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1925

  • Parchencis (Louvain, 1662); RAYMAEKERS in Recherches historiques sur l'ancienne abbaye de Parc (Louvain, 1858); Revue de l'Ordre de

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • During this Switzerland vacation Cooper's fancy was strongly attracted by Vevay's celebration of an old-time festival, abbaye des Vignerons, or great holiday of the vine-dressers.

    James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912

  • It has already been noted (Chapter I) that Abbey is not always what it seems; but in some cases it is local, from Fr, abbaye, of which the Provençal form Abadie was introduced by the Huguenots.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • During this Switzerland vacation Cooper's fancy was strongly attracted by Vevay's celebration of an old-time festival, _abbaye des Vignerons_, or great holiday of the vine-dressers.

    James Fenimore Cooper 1901

  • He is a native of the commune -- was born at Pont-aux-Dames, at the foot of the hill, right next to the old abbaye of that name.

    A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 Mildred Aldrich 1890

  • [440] _Du prêt des livres dans l 'abbaye de Saint Ouen, sous Charles V. _ par L. Delisle.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

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