As regards candidates for ecclesiastical offices, the concordats concluded with Catholic nations regularly give the sovereign the right to nominate or present to bishoprics, often also to other inferior benefices, such as canonries, important parishes and abbeys; or at least the choice of the ecclesiastical authority is submitted to the approval of the civil power. [Please select]
0
Abbeys and convents were founded everywhere and richly endowed. [Please select]
0
Among the most famous of these ruins are Glastonbury, Kirkstal, Furness, Netley, Tintern, and Fountains abbeys. [Please select]
0
The diocese of Quebec was endowed with the revenues of three French abbeys. [Please select]
0
[Footnote: The abbots of abbeys _en commende_ were appointed by the king. [Please select]
0
These appear to have been most of the rich abbeys. [Please select]
0
He was guardian, too, of the great Abbeys of St. [Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!