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In 1134, after nine years of painful struggle, he definitely left St. Gildas, without, however, resigning the abbotship.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

Again his enemies set upon him; he surrendered the Paraclete to H�lo�se and a small sisterhood, and accepted the abbotship of St. Gildes in his own Brittany.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

A fellow-countryman, indeed, the only other person let into the secret, advised him to secure by means of the relics an abbotship, if not a bishopric, in the Holy Land.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

Three forbidden things of a church: a nun as bellringer, a veteran in the abbotship, a drop upon the altar.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno

Patrick left his dalta Benen there in abbotship during the space of twenty years.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James