Examples of friary in a Sentence
the Franciscans left the chapel and went to the friary for rest
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At the friary, everyone would pray and eat together.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
According to the complaint, Ray — who was not an Augustinian — was allowed to live at an Augustinian friary in Chicago from 2000 to 2002.
—Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
When in town, Prevost would often visit with him and other Augustinian brothers at the friary at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, where Roccasalva used to live and work.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Ray was moved out of the friary in 2002 and eventually left the priesthood.
—Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied that the new pope approved Ray to move to the friary, Newsweek reports.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 9 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied Prevost authorized Ray's arrangements for the friary.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Historical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
According to the complaint, Ray — who was not an Augustinian — was allowed to live at an Augustinian friary in Chicago from 2000 to 2002.
—Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
When in town, Prevost would often visit with him and other Augustinian brothers at the friary at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, where Roccasalva used to live and work.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Ray was moved out of the friary in 2002 and eventually left the priesthood.
—Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied that the new pope approved Ray to move to the friary, Newsweek reports.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 9 May 2025
The Vatican has reportedly denied Prevost authorized Ray's arrangements for the friary.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Historical records indicated the king was buried in Grey Friars after the Battle of Bosworth, but the friary’s exact location—and, by extension, that of Richard’s grave—was lost during the English Reformation in the mid-16th century.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
Of the friary’s ecclesiastical past little remained.
—Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
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“Friary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/friary. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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