The island takes its name from the Carthusians who followed: Certosa is Italian for "charterhouse," a monastery built by the Carthusian order. From Wordnik.com. [Sailors' Venetian Retreat] Reference
The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Tomorrow, I'm "preaching with my hands", or at least conversing with them, at the RevGalBlogPals Monday book discussion: on the DVD Into Great Silence (filmed inside a Carthusian charterhouse) and the book An Infinity of Little Hours (a chronicle of five novices who try the Carthusian life in the 1960s). From Wordnik.com. [Preaching with your hands] Reference
A charterhouse was founded at Perth in 1429 by King. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Copes and monstrances are unknown in the charterhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
No woman, save the sovereign, may enter a charterhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Having entered the charterhouse of Buxheim, in the Diocese of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The first English charterhouse was founded at Witham in Somerset by. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
They were constructed after the manner of a charterhouse, but on a smaller scale. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
To the institutions mentioned throughout the article must be added the charterhouse of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
The first book printed at a charterhouse was issued from the presses of the Seliola Dei near Parma in 1477. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The first English house of the order -- the first charterhouse -- was founded by King Henry II at Witham in. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Somersetshire, in 1181 (with a cell on Mendip); the last was the celebrated charterhouse of Sheen in Surrey, founded in 1414 by king. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
At the time of Henry VIII's breach with Rome the monks, especially those of the London charterhouse (founded 1370), offered a stanch resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The visitors, who are appointed by the chapter, make a visitation of each charterhouse every two vears, to enquire into its condition and reform any abuses. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
He built the present cathedral choir about 1481, and founded a charterhouse at Svartsjo about 1493 and a hospital for aged and infirm priests at Strengnäs in. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
Further evidence of religious splendour can be found across the River Rhône, in Villeneuve-les-Avignon, where a charterhouse founded by cardinals is the oldest in France. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
By lingual corruption, just as each house of that order is known in Spain as cartuja and in Italy as certosa, so in England the corruption of Chartreux took the form of charterhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Prior Chauncy (died in 1581, but the English community kept together in different parts of the Low Countries with varying fortunes, until the charterhouse of Sheen Anglorum at Nieuport, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
I have site deployed on http://www. charterhouse.lk when I got the product catalog page, product details and try to navigate a level up using the menu I get this error. but this doesn't all ways happen. once refresh it works fine. From Wordnik.com. [ASP.NET Forums] Reference
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