These missions founded monastic institutions and collegiate churches that served large areas.

He and his followers spread the Irish model of monastic institutions established by noble families to the continent.

During its first years it was a monastic institution.

The administration of these parishes was often given over to local monastic institutions in a process known as appropriation.

As with manuscript books, monastic institutions sometimes produced, and often sold, prints.

They were ceasing to be the almost monastic institutions of the past.

These missions tended to found monastic institutions and collegiate churches that served large areas.

The 'large monastic institution' is now a well-maintained Abbey and private school.

At the time he set up shop in Seville, the city had more than 50 monastic institutions.

Their institution was called a monastery and the superior an abbot, but the system had little in common with the monastic institutions of later times.