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Description: An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia explaining the history, layout and function of monasteries. Expandable thumbnail image of the plan of Durham Cathedral Priory, UK.
and autonomous, with a community of not fewer than twelve religious; is ruled by a superior who bears the title of ; but this distinction was unknown in the first centuries of monastic history. Such were the twelve great
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Page title:CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey
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Description:A monastery canonically erected and autonomous, with a community of not fewer than twelve religious; monks under the government of an abbot; nuns under that of an abbess
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