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Example sentences for: monks

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The era known as the Nara Period was marked by the religious fervor of the Buddhist monks and also by their accompanying artistic achievements.
Built between 1725 and 1742 by the monks of the Order of St. Paul, it features splendidly rich Baroque carving.
Cistercian monks protested that such a sumptuous structure was an insult to the godly virtue of poverty, and today, architectural purists still find Notre-Dame a bit “too much.”
The chapel is a large room wholly constructed with the bones of 5,000 monks; skulls form the window frames and femurs cover the columns.
This 19th-century curiosity, like a similar chapel in the town of Évora farther north, is constructed of the skulls and bones of monks, unearthed from the friars’ cemetery.