The main goal of such appointments was probably to strengthen the ties between some important monastic centers with the Roman Church.

Between the sixth century and its destruction by the English in 1398, Glendalough was an important monastic center, with a population of some 4,000.

Athenry became a thriving monastic center and a stronghold for the founding family.

Meditation has been practiced within religious traditions since ancient times, especially within monastic centers.

Other monastic centres of historiography arose in the ninth century.

Later, Christian hermits used the grottoes for meditation, and this created the first small monastic center.

It was established as a monastic centre in Wales in 1973.

By 1810, they established a new monastic center in Vienna using a Franciscan church.

However, his descendants were prominent at the royal monastic center at Downpatrick.

Cill Chainnigh was a major monastic centre from at least the eighth century.