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An illustration showing the interior of Westminster Abbey during the coronation ceremony of George IV of England (r. 1820-1830 CE) in 1821 CE. (National Portrait Gallery)

A painting by Canaletto (1697-1768 CE) of the interior of the chapel at Westminster Abbey built by Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509 CE). (Private Collection)

Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy.

A view of Einsiedeln Abbey, 31 km south of Zurich, Switzerland. The monastery was founded by the Benedictine monk and hermit Saint Meinrad around c. 835 CE.

Bobbio Abbey, Italy founded c. 612-614 CE by Saint Columbanus (543-615 CE), one of the greatest missionaries of the early Catholic Church.

An 18th-century painting of the Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs in France.

A photograph of the ruins of the 7th Century CE Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England. The abbey was founded by King Oswy of Northumbria (642-670 CE) in 657 CE, and was placed under the guidance of its first abbess, St. Hilda of Whitby...

Statue of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) at the now ruined Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, which he founded in 888. Designed in 1984 by Andrew DuMont for a school, it was relocated to the abbey gardens in 2004.

The heart of the Cathedral Abbey of St. Gall, located in St. Gallen, Switzerland, is its Cathedral. Despite years of struggles during the stormy Reformation era in the 1500s CE, the current cathedral imparts nothing but peaceful elegance...

Saint Guthlac (c. 674 - 11 April 714 CE) receiving the tonsure at Repton Abbey. Roundel 3 from the Life of Guthlac (the 'Guthlac Roll', or 'Vita Sancti Guthlaci'), The Benedictine abbey of Crowland, Lincolnshire, 1175-1215 CE. Harley Roll...