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See also:OSWALD (d. 992) , See also:archbishop of See also:York, was a See also:nephew of Oda, archbishop of See also:Canterbury, and at an See also:early See also:age became, by See also:purchase, See also:head of the Old See also:Minster at See also:Winchester. Desiring to become a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk, he went with Oda's approval to the monastery of See also:Fleury on the See also:Loire--at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:great centre of reviving Benedictinism. Here he soon distinguished himself by the monastic austerity of his See also:life. In 959 he returned to See also:England at the See also:request of Oda, who, however, died before his arrival. He now went to York to his kinsman the Archbishop Oskytel, who took him with him on a See also:pilgrimage to See also:Rome. Soon after his return he was appointed See also:bishop of See also:Worcester at the re-See also:commendation of See also:Dunstan, his predecessor in the see (961). As bishop he took a prominent See also:part in that revival of monastic discipline on See also:Benedictine lines of which Aethelwold, bishop of Winchester, was the most ardent See also:leader. His methods, how-ever, were less violent than those of Aethelwold. Among other religious houses he founded that of See also:Ramsey in See also:conjunction with Aethelwine, Ealdorman of See also:East Anglia. In 97 2 he was translated (again at Dunstan's recommendation) to the archbishopric of York, with which he continued to hold the see of Worcester. He died on the 29th of See also:February 992 and was buried at Worcester.
See Memorials of St Dunstan, edited by W. See also:Stubbs, Rolls See also:series (See also:London, 1874).
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