23-577: (Redirected from Pauline Monastery ) Pauline monastery may refer to: Monastery of St Lawrence at Buda Monastery of Jasna Góra Monastery of Sveta Jelena Monastery of Kékes Pauline Monastery of Márianosztra Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Crikvenica) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
46-454: A neighboring cave, Bathory Cave , to devote himself to his work, Bible translation. He lived there, named in his honor, for twenty years (1437–1457). In 1527, after the Battle of Mohács , the monastery fell victim to Ottoman destruction. The monks fled, taking what manuscripts and relics they could, when the building was ransacked. The Hungarian Bible also disappeared. The relics of St. Paul
69-618: Is the regional superior of certain Orders, such as the Order of Friars Preachers Dominicans or the Carmelite friars . In this last case, the head of the whole Order is called the prior general . Among communities of friars, the second superior is called the sub-prior and his office is similar to that of the claustral prior in the Benedictine Order. In the medieval order of St. John (also known as
92-461: The Camaldolese , Vallombrosians , Cistercians , Hirsau congregations , and other offshoots of the Benedictine Order. Monastic congregations of hermit origin generally do not use the title of abbot for the head of any of their houses, in an effort to avoid the involvement with the world the office of an abbot would entail. As a result, it is not in use for the congregation as a whole. Among them,
115-483: The Knights Hospitaller ), a Grand Prior acted as the administrator of an order province known as a Grand Priory. These Grand Priories were joined into larger administrative units known as "Langues", which roughly encompassed all of the order properties within a single language sphere. The grand priories were sometimes subdivided into smaller priories and bailiwicks, and at the lowest level, into commanderies . While
138-507: The Neapolitan campaigns of Louis I of Hungary , the king made donations of money and relics to the monastery and offered the country under the patronage of Paul of Thebes as a co-patron saint. Following the Louis' donations, significant construction began and were completed in 1403. One of the monks of the monastery, László Báthory (1420–1484?), received permission from the prior to move to
161-678: The Pauline Monastery of Budaszentlőrinc ( Hungarian : budaszentlőrinci pálos kolostor ), is a former monastery belonging to the Pauline Order . Destroyed by the Ottomans, the remains of the monastery grounds are in an area called Szépjuhászné ( English : Beautiful shepherdess ) which is in the saddle between Hárshegy and János Hill in the 2nd district of Budapest . It is where the Pauline Order founded their first friary . Today, only
184-501: The Premonstratensian Order , and the military orders have three kinds of priors: The Claustral prior (Latin prior claustralis ), called dean in a few monasteries, holds the first place after the abbot (or grand-master in military orders), whom he assists in the government of the monastery, functioning effectively as the abbot's second-in-charge. He has no ordinary jurisdiction by virtue of his office, since he performs
207-401: The spring house at Város-kút (Budapest) [ hu ] ). In the 19th century, Imre Henszlmann [ hu ] began an excavation in 1847. In 1934, this work was continued by Sándor Garády, and between 1961 and 1985, further work was carried out under the leadership of László Zolnay [ hu ] . From 1985, the last preservation of the ruins was carried out under
230-480: The Benedictines, a monastery remains a priory until it is considered stable enough and large enough to be elevated to the rank of an abbey. In other Orders, like the Camaldolese and Carthusians , conventual priors are the norm and there are no abbots. (The superior of the major houses of Camaldolese nuns, however, is called an abbess .) This title, in its feminine form prioress , is used for monasteries of nuns in
253-493: The Dominican and Carmelite orders. An Obedientiary Prior heads a monastery created as a satellite of an abbey. When an abbey becomes overlarge, or when there is need of a monastery in a new area, the abbot may appoint a group of monks under a prior to begin a new foundation, which remains a dependency of the mother abbey until such time as it is large and stable enough to become an independent abbey of its own. A Prior Provincial
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#1732851543690276-610: The Hermit were taken to Trenčín Castle and the Pauline treasures were evacuated to Horné Lefantovce and then to Lepoglava in Croatia. While the building was destroyed in the Ottoman era , the foundation walls of the monastery can still be seen. Over the centuries most of the stones were used in the construction of the houses in the area (for example, some carved stones can still be seen built into
299-417: The claustral prior is assisted by a sub-prior , who holds the third place in the monastery. In former times there were in larger monasteries, besides the prior and the sub-prior, also a third, fourth and sometimes even a fifth prior. Each of these was called circa (or circator ), because it was his duty to make the rounds of the monastery to see whether anything was amiss and whether the brethren were intent on
322-442: The duties of his office entirely according to the will and under the direction of the abbot. His jurisdiction is, therefore, a delegated one and extends just as far as the abbot desires, or the constitutions of the congregation prescribe. He is appointed by the abbot, generally after a consultation in chapter with the professed monks of the monastery, and may be removed by him at any time. In many monasteries, especially larger ones,
345-573: The equivalent term of 'prior general' is the one used. This applies, e.g., to the Camaldolese and the Carthusians . The term is also used by various mendicant orders , e.g., the Carmelites and the Dominicans . This applies both to the friars and the nuns of these orders. The term connotes the idea that the 'prior general' is simply the "first among equals". The Benedictine Order and its branches,
368-418: The foundation walls of the monastery remain. In 1290, near what is today Budakeszi , on the outskirts of Budapest, a chapel called Budaszentlőrinc dedicated to St. Lawrence ( Szent Lőrinc ) was established on the site of what became the monastery. Around 1301, the construction of the Pauline monastery named after St. Lawrence began. In 1308, Lőrinc, the fourth prior, made the monastery the headquarters of
391-453: The government of the monastery, had some delegated jurisdiction over external dependencies of the abbey. In the high days of Cluny, the abbot was assisted by a coadjutor styled Grand-Prior ( Grand-prieur in French). The Conventual prior (Latin prior conventualis ) is the independent superior of a monastery that is not an abbey (and which is therefore called a "priory"). In some orders, like
414-502: The leadership of Zoltán Bencze. Prior (ecclesiastical) Prior (or prioress ) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders . The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys , a prior would be lower in rank than the abbey's abbot or abbess . In the Rule of Saint Benedict ,
437-484: The order. It served in this capacity throughout its existence. Charles I of Hungary was among the first significant donors , as well as John Hencfi , who donated the surrounding forests to the monastery. In 1381, the body of St. Paul, the patron saint of the order, was transferred from Venice to the Monastery of St. Lawrence at Buda, which thereby gained greatly in prestige, becoming a destination for pilgrims. Following
460-532: The subdivision into langues was abolished in 1798, the subdivision into grand priories still exists within the sovereign Order of Malta , the modern successor of the historical Order of St. John. Other chivalric orders, such as the military Order of Christ , the Knights of Santiago , or in general, the Orders founded in the context of the Reconquista , only had one Grand Prior who acted as the Orders' Chief-cleric. During
483-603: The term appears several times, referring to any superior, whether an abbot, provost , dean , etc. In other old monastic rules the term is used in the same generic sense. With the Cluniac Reforms , the term prior received a specific meaning; it supplanted the provost or dean ( praepositus ), spoken of in the Rule of St. Benedict. The example of the Cluniac congregations was gradually followed by all Benedictine monasteries, as well as by
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529-453: The work allotted to them respectively. He had no authority to correct or punish the brethren, but was to report to the claustral prior whatever he found amiss or contrary to the rules. In the Congregation of Cluny and others of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries there was also a greater prior ( prior major ) who preceded the claustral prior in dignity and, besides assisting the abbot in
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