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2 unusual facts about St. Clare's Priory


Birger Jarls torn

For the construction bricks were taken from a monastery, St. Clare's Priory near today's Sergels torg (Sankta Klara kloster) destroyed in 1527 and churches from the ridges surrounding the city was used.

Klara Church

The convent and church of St. Clare was founded on the site in 1280s.


Ancient Diocese of Ribe

In the city of Ribe there were also the Benedictine nunnery of St. Nicholas (founded before 1215), a Franciscan friary and the Dominican St. Catherine's Priory, both dating from 1259, a hospital of the Holy Ghost and a commandery of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, both dating from about 1300.

Edith Weston Priory

The last Prior was known in 1361, but by 1394 the church and manor had been sold to St. Anne's Priory, Coventry bringing the priory to an end.

Edmond

Edmond (1833), a passenger sailing ship that sank off the coast of Kilkee, Co. Clare in 1850 with the loss of 98 lives.

Richard Massingham

He was the son of Emma Jane née Snowdon, the daughter of Henry Snowdon of St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich.

St Augustine's Priory, Ealing

Lettice Mary Tredway, C.R.L., was a member of a French community of Canonesses Regular of the Lateran at the Priory of Notre-Dame-de-Beaulieu in the village of Sin-le-Noble, near Douai, in the County of Flanders, which provided nursing care to the region.

St German's Priory

The present church replaces an Anglo-Saxon building which was the cathedral of the Bishops of Cornwall.

The church is dedicated to St Germanus and soon after construction it became the cathedral for Cornwall in 926 AD, when King Athelstan appointed Conan as the bishop of Cornwall.

At Dupath Well the wellhouse is said to have been built in 1510 by the monks of St Germans.

St Monica's Priory, Spetisbury

In 1800 it was acquired by an exiled community of Augustinian nuns from Louvain, canonesses regular of the Windesheim Congregation.

They ran a school here until 1861, when they established St. Augustine's Priory at Abbotsleigh in Devon, and sold the premises to a community of Bridgettines from Lisbon.

St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge

Radegund was a 6th-century Frankish princess, who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers.

St. Catherine's Priory

St. Catherine's Priory, Lincoln, a priory in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

St. Catherine's Priory, Roskilde

The geatest patron of the Dominican friars of Roskilde was the immensely powerful Dowager Duchess Ingeborg (1301-c.1360), mother of King Magnus IV of Sweden and VII of Norway, who made them frequent gifts from at least 1330 onwards and also remembered them in her will.

St. Clare's Monastery, Copenhagen

The monastic buildings then came into use as a mint, which after its decommissioning became known as the Old Mint, giving rise to the present day street name Gammel Mønt at the site.

St. Hippolyte's Priory

St. Hippolyte's was at first a cell of Lièpvre Priory, founded by Fulrad at the same time, but soon became a priory dependent on the abbey of Saint-Denis.

St. John's Priory, Viborg

On Good Friday 1525 he preached Luther's ideas to the congregation at Antvorskov Abbey on Zealand, the headquarters of the Hospitallers in Scandinavia.

Strandgaten, Bergen

During the 12th century, the area around the eastern part of Strandgaten changed from a rural area dominated by Munkeliv Abbey and St. John's Priory, to a centre for trade of goods.


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