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Recent Examples of prioryThe shrine was destroyed, its only remaining feature the stone outline of the great east window of the priory built to house the shrine, which stands like a gaping mouth, a howl against its own decreation.—Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025 Critics pointed to his role in the dissolution of the monasteries, an initiative of the English Reformation that saw most of the kingdom’s abbeys and priories shut down, their art and relics destroyed and their wealth diverted to fill the king’s coffers.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025 He was tutored by men from the Dominican order and he was baptized at St. Gertrude, a Dominican priory in Cincinnati.—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025 Charlotte agrees to lead an art workshop at the priory if Graham will escort her to holiday locations around London for her new illustration job.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for priory
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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