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Recent Examples of friaryThe Franciscan friary of the basilica, Sacro Convento, noted in a statement that the event comes nearly 800 years after his death.—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025 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.—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
Natural light, serene cloisters and Spanish gothic architectural flourishes characterize this memorial space, which is also home to an annual music festival, held annually during the summer solstice called the Garden of Memory.
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Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
18 Sep. 2025
Monasteries were dissolved, cloister vineyards broken up, and the bronze Horses of San Marco shipped to Paris.
Back in 1775, the grapes grown at the Schloss Johannisberg estate in Germany’s Rheingau region could not be picked until a permit was issued by the cleric leading the abbey, known as the Prince Abbot.
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Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
5 Oct. 2025
Construction began on the Silverado Canyon abbey in 2018, about 7 miles north of its previous location in Trabuco Canyon after the priests and seminarians outgrew that location.
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