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unusual facts about St. Michael's Abbey


Catholic Order Rites

St. Michael's Abbey in California continued to use the Premonstratensian Rite into the 1980s, and many canons of the abbey continue to offer private Masses in the ancient rite.


Alexander Hyde

His father Sir Lawrence Hyde was the second son of Lawrence Hyde of Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, who was third son of Robert Hyde of Norbury, Cheshire.

Arab Revolt

Korda, Michael, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

Barton Court Grammar School

The school stands on what was the farm of St Augustine's Abbey across the road; 'Barton' stems from 'bere tun' or 'barley enclosure'.

Burwash Hall

From the eastern side of the building, the Upper Houses look out at Rowell Jackman Hall and the Lower Houses see the St. Michael's College residence of Elmsley.

Chess problem

Lipton, Michael, Matthews, R. C. O. and Rice, John (1963), Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art, Faber.

County of Flanders

The Christianisation of the population was mainly the work of missionaries like Amandus (St. Bavo's Abbey and St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent) and Eligius (coastal region and Antwerp).

Edward D. Baca

One of six children, Baca attended St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, helping to pay the tuition by working on construction crews during summers.

Edward Staples

In June 1552, in a discussion at St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, he maintained the Protestant cause against George Dowdall, archbishop of Armagh.

Freeminer

A plaque bearing the engraved coat of arms of the Freeminers is on the Greyndour tomb in the Clearwell Chapel in Newland church, and other important medieval and modern mining emblems are in the Freeminers Guild church of St. Michael in Abenhall.

Gorze Abbey

They did so extremely successfully and the customary of Gorze soon spread to many other monasteries, at first local, such as St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier, and St. Evre's Abbey, Toul, and later in more distant places, such as Bavaria, through the mediation of Wolfgang of Regensburg.

Haut de la Garenne

St. Michael's Preparatory School leased a dormitory block for a time, and the headmaster proposed leasing the whole site for educational and sporting purposes.

Himalayas

Palin, Michael, Himalaya, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2004.

HM Prison

The title of HM Prison is given to Dodds Prison in St. Philip, and the former Glendairy Prison in Station Hill, St. Michael.

Iklin

St. Michael's feast is celebrated the Sunday before the 29 September by the Lija fireworks team.

John Ruston

In 1976 Ruston took up an appointment as Archdeacon of Bloemfontein and as an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein and warden and chaplain of St Michael’s School, Bloemfontein.

Kościuszko Park

Two unique structures of wooden building in Upper Silesia, a manorial granary from 1688 (burnt in 1970) and the Church of St. Michael Archangel, a wooden church under the invocation of St. Michael from 1510 moved from Syrynia, were placed in the park.

Lambeth Bible

Dorothy Shepard repeats the traditional view that the Bible came from St Augustine's Abbey, but in the abbey's library catalogue there is no Bible divided at the right point.

Magnus of Cuneo

Magnus has been identified with Magnus of Füssen (Mang), a later monk of the same name associated with the Bavarian monastery at Füssen, whose cult would have spread south to Piedmont by the Benedictines.

Nicolás Francés

His work is considered one of St. Jerome altarpiece owned by the National Gallery of Ireland and a possible table altarpiece dedicated to St. Michael that resides in Nationalmuseum was also attributed to Francés.

Purcell Operatic Society

Burden, Michael (2004) "Purcell's operas on Craig's stage: the productions of the Purcell Operatic Society", Early Music, Vol.

Red McCarthy

His hockey career included stops with Toronto St. Michael's College, Barrie Flyers, Boston Olympics, Nelson B.C. Maple Leafs, and Sudbury Wolves of the Canadian Senior Hockey League.

River Frome, Bristol

Originally the Frome joined the Avon downstream of Bristol Bridge, and formed part of the city defences, but in the thirteenth century the river was diverted through marshland belonging to St Augustine's Abbey (now Bristol Cathedral), as part of major port improvement works.

Saint John's Abbey

Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, O.S.B. (1866-1875) Named Bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota

St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde

Foundations followed, and in 1627 another Paix Notre Dame grew up at Liège.

St Mark's Abbey

St Mark's Abbey, Camperdown, is an Anglican Benedictine monastery situated in Victoria, Australia.

St. Canute's Abbey, Odense

Twelve monks were brought by King Erik I Ejegod from Evesham Abbey in England to build and operate the new monastery in Denmark.

St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes

The French anti-religious laws of the early 20th century forced the whole community into exile in England, to the forerunner of the present St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, where on 18 March 1909 Mother Cécile died.

St. Emmeram's Abbey

Both he and Saint Wolfgang were advocates of the monastic reforms of Gorze.

St. Mang's Abbey, Füssen

The reason for its foundation goes back to the hermit Magnus of Füssen (otherwise known as Saint Mang), who built a cell and an oratory here, where he died on 6 September, although there is no record of which year.

St. Marx Abbey

At the end of World War I the German sisters were expelled from Alsace and obliged to look for new premises in Germany, which in 1919 they found in the former St. Trudpert's Abbey in Münstertal.

St. Michael, Minnesota

It also borders Monticello Township, Buffalo Township, Rockford Township, and the cities of Otsego and Albertville, all in Wright County, as well as the city of Hanover, which is located within both Wright and Hennepin counties.

St. Michael's Catholic High School

Each tutor group is named after a monastic institution of learning, namely: Fountains Abbey, Iona Abbey, Abbey of Kells, Lindisfarne Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey.

St. Michael's Church, Dublin

Thomas Taylor, founder of the Bective family, who worked with William Petty in compiling the Down Survey of Ireland, was interred here in 1682.

St. Michael's Church, Old Town, Chicago

The Daughters of Mary or Damas de Maria were also organized by Clotilde Rodriguez, Monin Jimenez, family members of the Flores, Calixto,Lugo,Lucas, Rivera, Trinidad and Eugenia Rodriguez, mother to Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, the founder of the Latino human rights organization the Young Lords.

St. Michael's Institution

Every year, there are scouts who successfully achieve the prestigious King's Scout Award Award (equivalent to the Eagle Scout Award).

St. Michael's Majors

Toronto St. Michael's Majors - an OHA/OHL team that had been in Toronto for 100 years.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

Although there are now some questions about the exact date of its foundation (and the date of Abbot Ulsinus), it is reasonably clear that, together with St Michael's and St Peter's churches, the church was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

St. Trudpert's Abbey

The unparalleled stucco work on the high altar was created by Johann Joseph Christian when his son Karl Anton Christian (1731–1810) became abbot here.

Theodore Dehon

After paying a visit to South Carolina he was offered positions in Charleston, but demurred until 1810, when he accepted a position as rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston.

Tom Farquharson

His Great-Grand son Steve Farquharson was drafted to the Ontario Hockey League in the 3rd round (58th overall) to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors where he played two season before playing one season with the Barrie Colts

Trade literature

Kernan, Michael, "Generations of old mail-order catalogs make colorful index to what folks prized and paid for, way back when," Smithsonian vol.

Türbe

Levey, Michael; The World of Ottoman Art, 1975, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-27065-1

Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia

There is a record of Ulrich making a donation to the Stift Sankt Georgen monastery near Sankt Georgen am Längsee on 31 March 1199.

Waegwan Abbey

St Paul's Abbey, Newton II, Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson: Established as a dependent community of Waegwan Abbey in 2002, raised to simple priory in 2004; Fr Prior Samuel Kim, superior of 14 monks.

Wefensleben

The first documentarily mention occurred in the year 1160 in the property list of the St. Ludger's Abbey in Helmstedt.

Yiddish dialects

Wex, Michael, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-312-30741-1.


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