What we should say, therefore, is simply that whatever the institutions are that seek the coherence and mutual intelligibility of the political communities of Europe, they should be marked by 'abbatial' virtues - by the way that authority itself reflects or embodies the careful listening that it itself demands; so that what is in view is always and only a corporate identity that can be owned and trusted by those for whom it acts. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Above his head, two angels bear the coat of arms of the Cistercian Order, while below, St. Bernard bears his crozier in his right hand, the abbatial veil curling around its shaft. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the middle cornice, again parallel to the altar of St. Benedict, St. Bernard receives the abbatial insignia from Our Lady. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That role was amicably filled by Abbot Joseph of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Redwood, California until his abbatial duties, understandably, simply didn't allow for it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
(The prelate in the cowl in the last picture is the new Territorial Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau, about whose abbatial benediction the NLM reported earlier.) ❋ Unknown (2009)
We do not usually link to reports which are mostly pictorial, but the images of the ordinations celebrated last Sunday by the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X FSSPX / SSPX, Bishop Bernard Fellay, at the austere Romanesque abbatial church of the Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of Bellaigue are truly beautiful and deserve to be seen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Saint – Germain, the king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Parliament. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When abbatial decisions are made, the monk must ultimately obey; but the context remains one in which we are being urged to think not about an audit, in the sense of an assessment of whether the processes in use are delivering the desired results, but about the degree to which the community is genuinely working with a shared focus and common language, in which both discussion and decision are possible. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Since such interference with the abbatial orders here on monastic ground was unheard-of, he had taken no precautions against it, though most of the time the lodge was manned, and the whole range of keys under the occupant's eye, and safe enough. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
They could have him, and welcome; but the prior considered that it was due to his dignity - in this mood fully abbatial - that the senior officer then in charge, sheriff or deputy, should come in person to make amends for the inconvenience to which the abbey had been subjected, and remove the troublesome element. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1992)
Brother Cadfael, who had no official function, was for once allowed to take over the dead-heading in his place, the only brother privileged to be trusted with the abbatial blossoms, which must be immaculate and bright for the saint's festival, like everything else within the enclave. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1989)
Salacious gossip can be of no interest to abbatial ears, nor was there much to be said about a tiny plaque of dried blood tethering a couple of flaxen hairs; not, at least, until the vagabond, with every hand against him and his life at stake, had exercised the right to answer for himself. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1983)
A robust abbatial church such as our forefathers built in Provence and Languedoc, far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style, which only in more recent times has been enriched, I believe, above the choir, with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)
After the gate (which was the only opening in the outer walls) a tree-lined avenue led to the abbatial church. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)
All day little processions were going up and down the steep stone steps that lead from fortified rock to parish church, and from the town to the abbatial gateway. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Through the lancet windows of the abbatial gateways the yeomanry of the vassal villages are peering; it is the weary time of the Hundred Years 'War, and all France is watching, through sentry windows, for the approach of her dread enemy. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Let this hill yield you a town in which to walk, with a street of many-storied houses; with other promenades along ramparts as broad as church aisles; with dungeons, cloisters, halls, guard-rooms, abbatial gateways, and a cathedral whose flying buttresses seemed to spring from mid-air and to end in a cloud -- such was the world into which we awoke on the heights of Mont St. Michel. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Saint Maximin Without, near Treves, in the abbatial chamber, there being then present the Venerable and Excellent Lord Peter Binsfeldt, ❋ Various (N/A)
His body was buried in his own church, which he had built of wood, on the spot upon which the abbatial house now stands. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)
If [u know] any [abbati] run [oooh] ❋ [email protected] (2021)
The name of [my son] is [Abbati],:
[Ooh] that's why he's so supportive. ❋ Nahlaa (2020)
