The monks in Europe was even the spread of Christianity. The monasteries played a key role in organ

The monks in Europe was even the spread of Christianity. The monasteries played a key role in organizing social and cultural field reaching, beyond and above all, a huge power supplies. Although already existed in Galicia a certain monastic life, was with Froitoso manfrotto geared head Braga when communities regulate family tradition Visigoth (Regula Monachorum). But will be from the ninth and tenth centuries arise when large foundations, over time, is welcomed under the rule of St. Benedict of Nursia that bring the monks of Cluny through the Way of Saint James. The Galician monasticism consolidated with the arrival of the Cistercians Bernard of Clairvaux. In the thirteenth century settled in the country the mendicant orders of the Franciscan and Dominican (to a lesser extent the Agustinos, among others), whose presence is often linked to the pilgrimage of St. Francis of Assisi to Santiago at the beginning of the thirteenth century, who founded convents in their cores urban against the rural location of the Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries.
Confiscations of property and land "not productive" ended with its power. Between 1800 (reign of Charles IV) and 1859 being minister Pascual Madoz (in the middle was the Minister of Mendizabal in 1835 and a few years later to Espartero), the Church lost much of their property, in addition manfrotto geared head to the spiritual field also affected the material, including the buildings and mosteirais convent.
This compilation attached, for now, more than 300 monasteries and convents priorados, even away from the actual number of those who alfrombraron Galicia. Without going any further, José Freire Camaniel, in his work El Gallego monasticism in the High Middle Ages (1998), recorded almost 500 monasteries before or early twelfth century.
Monasteries and convents of A Coruña Abegondo Monastery Vilacoba: Maxi King (Brigantino Yearbook 2004) alludes to a possible monastery located in the place of Vilacoba manfrotto geared head inaccurate, based on a document of the year 935 of the monastery manfrotto geared head of monks Exceeded. Monastery Sarandóns: Fray Martin Sarmiento says that the monastery was then priory. AMES Monastery Barantoño (Bertamiráns): there are few references on this possible monastery manfrotto geared head included in the inventory of the Government manfrotto geared head of the year 1991. Arango Monastery arange: Lock linked to or members of his family. In a document dated 11 April 1165, Suero Menéndez donates Exceeded the monastery of monks' monastery in arange Totum quod ibi acquisiuit auus my dommus Roderycus Froylán cum total uoce ipsius loci per total share of UBI uadit uox arange "(Luengo Martinez) manfrotto geared head . Some places here the Templars, hypothesis nothing fabulous when you consider it was a Lock, Fernando, the Pokemon manfrotto geared head introduced in the same year of the foundation of the order of the Temple (1119), donating the town of Faro (Betanzos.) ARES Convent of Santa Catalina Montefaro: Franciscan, founded in 1393 by Fernan Perez de Andrade "The Good". Romanesque style when they began to prevail as the Gothic. manfrotto geared head In the Gothic cloister there is a fountain with a boar, a symbol of Andrade. The church has been changed in the eighteenth manfrotto geared head century. When the confiscation of Mendizabal in 1835, the monastery passed manfrotto geared head to private hands and then the army until 2000 when it was ceded to the city council. It is said that in the place where the building stood up there was a Roman altar dedicated to the Sun.
ARTEIXO Priory of Monteagudo: Benedictine convent, the twelfth century. It was the priory of Santa María de Cambre. The church, Romanesque basilica and has three semicircular apses. Monastery of San Esteban de Moraes: only conserved the church, built in 1162 and renovated in the eighteenth manfrotto geared head century. The Romanesque manfrotto geared head church you can see the animals and human motifs dogs the eaves.
ARZÚA Augustine Convent: S ecules XII, retained the chapel of Mary Magdalene character of masonry with popular items that expose their Romanesque. Part of the old convent, today dedicated the hostel was a pilgrim hospital maintained by the Canons Regular of St. Augustine.
BERGONDO Monastery of San Salvador: Benedictine convent. The monastery was built in the twelfth century, characteristic of Romanesque Galician. Due to a fire occurred in 1338, lost the file and library. manfrotto geared head Both the church as the monastery was rebuilt in the fourteenth century by the house of Andrade.
BETANZOS Convent of Santo Domingo: Dominican, sixteenth manfrotto geared head century. The convent retains traces Renaissance and Baroque that highlights the cloister of windows, arches and staircase that gives the cells. He played as a center of education. The church stood on an ancient chapel. After the confiscation happened to the city council. Convent of San Francisco: manfrotto geared head The church is the second half of the fourteenth century, thanks to contruída Fernan Perez de Andrade manfrotto geared head Good, that reedificou the monastery that has existed since the thirteenth century. Inside the tomb preserved itself Fernan. Monastery Cascas (Xanrozo): received the names of Sampayo Xeronzo and St. Mary of the Owners. manfrotto geared head Founded by Count Froila Bermúdez and refounded p