If you go to the cloisters of the war memorial, you see that we left our dead, not just on the western front and Gallipoli, but the Sinai, Palestine, the Boxer Rebellion, you know, all over the world.
Until seven years hence, the element itself shall not behold her face, but, like a cloister, she will walk veiled, watering her chamber with her tears, for the sad remembrance of her dead brother.
The story was not new. For thousands of years women had rebelled. They had made a fortress of religion — had buried themselves in the cloister, in self-sacrifice, in good works — or even in bad.
The morning of the cord change, the cloister's courtyard filled up a few hours before the big event. Uta Percy was sitting next to the church, sheltering from the wind. She'd come from Hamburg.
So, for example, my parents never saw my teachers because they were cloistered, they wore a full habit, and when they would come in for parent-teacher conferences, they were behind a black veil.
Passing along a cloister, he reached the terrace leaning over the valley. The scent of tuberose assailed him, full of delicate associations; in China it was called " the smell of moonlight" .
The ancient stone gateway leads us onto the pretty Canon Lane and it's here we find the flower-lined pathway called St Richard's Walk which brings you into the Cathedral cloisters.
The monastery's function as a religious site is evident in its many chapels, cloisters, and the Church of Santa Maria, where the tomb of Vasco da Gama rests.
This cloister where we're sitting is so intimate with semicircular arches and then just one story above with these tiny windows which I assume are the cells?
$25.00 recommended for adults, $12.00 recommended for students, includes the Main Building and The Cloisters on the same day; free for children under 12 with an adult.
The ground floor of the building round the quadrangle was occupied by a wide arcade or cloister, whose fanciful but strong architecture I could not enough admire.