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Recent Examples of friary
When in town, Prevost would often visit with him and other Augustinian brothers at the friary at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, where Roccasalva used to live and work.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Ray was moved out of the friary in 2002 and eventually left the priesthood.
—Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied that the new pope approved Ray to move to the friary, Newsweek reports.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 9 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied Prevost authorized Ray's arrangements for the friary.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Historical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Ray was moved out of the friary in 2002 and eventually left the priesthood.
—Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied that the new pope approved Ray to move to the friary, Newsweek reports.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 9 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied Prevost authorized Ray's arrangements for the friary.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Historical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once been a Carmelite friary, founded in 1342 just inside the walls of the medieval city.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
While Langley hoped to find the king’s grave, the University of Leicester Archaeological Services was more interested in locating Grey Friars, the Franciscan friary where Richard was reportedly buried.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for friary
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Jeff Bezos was set to celebrate his lavish wedding to Lauren Sánchez at the Fondazione Cini, a cultural institution on the island which occupies a large part of a Benedictine monastery established there in 982 A.D.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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But other outlets, including CNN and The Hollywood Reporter, report that the couple may get married on the private island of San Giorgio Maggiore, specifically in a monastery there.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
23 June 2025
Noun
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The wedding festivities kicked off on Thursday, June 27, with a welcome party, held in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell'Orto church.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
29 June 2025
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According to People, the couple hosted a welcome party for their guests in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell'Orto church Thursday night.—
Janelle Ash , Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
28 June 2025
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The caverns were later incorporated into a 13th-century Benedictine abbey, destroyed during the French Revolution but still visible in the architecture of the lower levels.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The nuns of the abbey, for instance, were drawn from the richest and most powerful families in the city.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
29 May 2025
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“Friary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friary. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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