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  • His bones and heart were taken back to France and kept enshrined in the abbey-church of St. Denis, until they were scattered at the time of the Revolution.

    Archive 2008-08-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • His bones and heart were taken back to France and kept enshrined in the abbey-church of St. Denis, until they were scattered at the time of the Revolution.

    SAINT LOUIS, CONFESSOR, KING OF FRANCE de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The prefecture occupies the buildings of the famous abbey of St. Aubin; in its courtyard are elaborately sculptured arcades of the 11th and 12th centuries, from which period dates the tower, the only survival of the splendid abbey-church.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • And Caxton would no more set up his press in a chapel than in the abbey-church itself.

    Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 Various

  • The fine old monastery, and the ruined early Gothic abbey-church of Chorin on the Stettin Railway, the burial-place of the

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • The almonry was one of the courts of the abbey, (situated directly west of the abbey-church, and not east, as Dr. Dibdin surmised); it contained a chapel dedicated to

    Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 Various

  • Of the other churches of Angers, the principal are St. Serge, an abbey-church of the 12th and 15th centuries, and La Trinité (12th century).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • From a misapprehension of the passage in St.w, a current opinion has obtained that the first English press was erected within the abbey-church, and in the chapel of St. Anne; and Dr. Dibdin conjectured that the chapel of St. Anne stood on the site of Henry VII. 's chapel.

    Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 Various

  • The sun had set and the sea-twilight was rolling in when we dipped down from the town of Montreuil to the valley below, where the towers of an ancient abbey-church rise above terraced orchards.

    Fighting France 1915

  • Just outside the city he built the abbey-church of St. Eucharius (St. Mathias), to which Otto II contributed generously.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

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