"founder" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He is revered as a monastic founder, an intercessor for the infertile, and a protector of children.
- Western monasticism, too, turned away - as had already some Greek monastic founders such as St Basil - from the extremes of asceticism.
- Saint Philibert of Jumièges (c. 608-684) was an abbot and monastic founder, particularly associated with Jumièges Abbey.
- Saint Giles (Aegidius), monastic founder along the Rhone (c. 712)
- I shall quote it: "The early monastic founders asked everything of their followers and they got everything; the moderns ask little and they get nothing."
- St Romuald, abbot and monastic founder, was born in Ravenna, a favourite resort of the Meynells.
- He was a monastic founder and many architectural accomplishments date to his reign.
- St Benedict's chapel, completed in 1875, is a colourful gem of its own showing the monastic founder in the central reredos.
- Saint Laurence, monastic founder at Mt. Pelion in Volos (late 14th century)
- In 370 Basil the Great, monastic founder in Cappadocia, becomes bishop of Caesarea and he writes principles of ascetic life.
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