A double monastery is an institution combining a separate monastery for monks and an abbey for nuns. Examples include Coldingham Monastery in Scotland. Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ...
Doublemonasteries, of which those of St. Basil and his sister, Macrina, may be cited as examples, were apparently numerous throughout the East during the early centuries of
doublemonasteries of England, and, when they were restored, it was for one sex only, instead of for a dual community.
doublemonasteries the supreme rule was in the hands of the abbess, and monks as well as nuns were subject to her authority.
Saint Gertrude of Nivelles (626 - March 17, 659) was abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles, in present-day Belgium.
When on this occasion she was asked to marry the son of the Duke of Austrasia she indignantly replied that she would marry neither him nor any other man, but that Jesus Christ alone would be her bridegroom.
After the death of Itta in 652, Gertrude entrusted the interior management of her monastery to a few pious nuns, and appointed some capable monks to attend to the outer affairs, in order that she might gain more time for the study of Holy Scripture, which she almost knew by heart.
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