sub-prior

This operation was performed at Berne by the Holy Virgin herself, but she borrowed the hand of the sub-prior, who dressed himself in female attire and put a glory round his head.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

In walking among the ruins of religious buildings, we came to two vaults over which had formerly stood the house of the sub-prior.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

After them came all the other officers, sub-prior, sacristan, hospitaller, almoner, infirmarer, the custodian of the altar of St Mary, the cellarer, the precentor, and the master of the novices.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

Or we may need the good word of this sub-prior from Ramsey, no less ...

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

Brother Richard, the sub-prior, presided; Prior Robert ate privately in the lodging he already thought of as his own.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992

"You will wish to confer strictly in private," said Cadfael, following the sub-prior up the stone steps to the hall door.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

Brother Cadfael, studying this formidable personage from his retired corner, and his long years of secular and monastic experience of all sorts and conditions of men, reflected that the sub-prior would probably make a very good preacher at the High Cross, and exact donations from a great many guilty consciences; for he was voluble enough, even capable of passion in the service of Ramsey.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

The sub-prior was a big man, long-boned, wide-shouldered, carrying flesh once ample, perhaps even excessive, but shrunken and a little flabby now.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

And before the year's end it reached Abbot Walter of Ramsey, with the deathbed charter that gave his monastery back to him, and he gave due thanks to God, and set about sending the word on to his prior and sub-prior and all his scattered brothers, who had been forced out penniless and homeless to find shelter where they could, some with their kin, some in other hospitable Benedictine houses.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

You have been kind, and I am grateful, but your sub-prior will want you back as I promised, in time for Compline.

The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992