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Abbeys and Priories in Spain

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Thanks for watching... Santuari de Lluc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuari_de_Lluc Monasterio de Piedra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_Piedra Rueda Abbey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rueda_Abbey Monastery of Leyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_Leyre Monastery of El Paular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_El_Paular Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_de_Montserrat_Abbey Moreruela Abbey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreruela_Abbey Poblet Monastery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poblet_Monastery Monastery of Santa Maria de Vallbona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_Santa_Maria_de_Vallbona Monastery of Fitero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_Fitero Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Santa_María_la_Real_de_Las_Huelgas Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Santo_Domingo_de_Silos Monasteries of San Millán de la Cogolla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasteries_of_San_Millán_de_la_Cogolla Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbeys_and_priories#Spain Music: Nadia's Theme,Topher Mohr and Alex Elena; YouTube Audio Library An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. It provides a place for religious activities, work and housing of Christian monks and nuns. The concept of the abbey has developed over many centuries from the early monastic ways of religious men and women where they would live isolated from the lay community about them. Religious life in an abbey may be monastic. An abbey may be the home of an enclosed religious order or may be open to visitors. The layout of the church and associated buildings of an abbey often follows a set plan determined by the founding religious order. Abbeys are often self-sufficient while using any abundance of produce or skill to provide care to the poor and needy, refuge to the persecuted or education to the young. Some abbeys offer accommodation to people who are seeking spiritual retreat. There are many famous abbeys across Europe. The earliest known Christian monasteries were groups of huts built near the residence of a famous ascetic or other holy person. Disciples wished to be close to their holy man or woman in order to study their doctrine or imitate their way of life. In the earliest times of Christian monasticism, ascetics would live in social isolation but near a village church. They would subsist whilst donating any excess produce to the poor. However, increasing religious fervor about the ascetic's ways and or persecution of them would drive them further away from their community and further into solitude. For instance, the cells and huts of anchorites (religious recluses) have been found in the deserts of Egypt. In 312 AD, Anthony the Great retired to the Thebaid region of Egypt to escape the persecution of the Emperor Maximian. Anthony was the best known of the anchorites of his time due to his degree of austerity, sanctity and his powers of exorcism. The deeper he withdrew into the wilderness, the more numerous his disciples became. They refused to be separated from him and built their cells close to him. This became a first true monastic community. Anthony, according to Johann August Wilhelm Neander, inadvertently became the founder of a new mode of living in common, Coenobitism. A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters (as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites, for instance), or monasteries of monks or nuns (as the Benedictines). Houses of canons regular and canonesses regular also use this term, the alternative being "canonry". In pre-Reformation England, if an Abbey church was raised to cathedral status, the abbey became a Cathedral Priory. The bishop, in effect, took the place of the abbot, and the monastery itself was headed by a prior. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory