He also built on his relationship with the church, restoring their lands and insured the great monasteries flourished.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union the monastery has flourished.

Enda's monastery flourished until Viking times, but much of the stone was ransacked by Cromwell's men in the 1650's for fortifications, so only scattered ruins remain.

The monastery flourished in the 14th century thanks to royal support, but declined after the crown of Aragon merged with that of Castile.

The monastery flourished for many years, until it was suppressed during the French Revolution, and its property was seized in 1791.

At the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, after a period of strife, the monastery flourished again.

Benedictine, Trappist and Cistercian monasteries are flourishing in the Young Churches.

Benedict himself was the first abbot, and the monastery flourished under him and his successors Eosterwine, Ceolfrith, and others, for two hundred years.

This monastery flourished to such a degree that, in 1681, four nuns were sent to establish a new monastery in Tarragona.

The monastery flourished until the surrender of eastern Crete to the Turks in 1646, after which it was abandoned for a long time.