6 sentences with 'monastery'
Example sentences and phrases with the word monastery and other words derived from it.
• « In the monastery of St. Gallen, which dates back to 820, there was a room for the doctor and a garden where medicinal herbs were grown. »
• « One night, while the monk was resting in a monastery, he heard an unusual noise in the courtyard. »
• « Then, in 885, at least 700 ships sailed up the Seine River and laid siege to Paris (note that their initial target, a wealthy monastery, had been evacuated with its treasure; however, the hold was not spared). »
• « Over time, activities such as supervising agriculture on monastery lands, brewing beer or wine, or painstakingly copying manuscripts from books, became an important focus of monastery and convent life. »
• « Unknown to anyone at the time, during the 1850s and 1860s an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel conducted a series of experiments on pea plants in his monastery garden and, in the process, discovered the basic principles of genetics. Mendel first presented his work in 1865, but it was completely forgotten. »