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Recent Examples of friaryThe 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 Experts say the ruins may be from the friary of St. Saviours, which was founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256, but its exact location had always been a mystery.—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022 Archaeologists from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit excavate the remains of friars buried in the grounds of the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
The Vatican has denied that Prevost permitted Ray to live at the monastery.
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Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
In 2015, David and his wife made Texas their primary residence after retiring from their jobs at a Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, N.Y., where David was executive director for three years.
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Serge F. Kovaleski,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Since then, he’s injected his flair into Venetian jewels like Abbazia San Gregorio, a former Benedictine abbey and the home of Diane von Furstenburg in Palazzo Brandolini-Giustinian.
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Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025
Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.
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