2012 Event Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, the four thousand year-old ridge-top monastery in Bhutan catches fire and is destroyed; no relics were lost in the fire because the monastery was under renovation 1989 Event French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice 1984 Death Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 1976 Event Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt., New York 1919 Death Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60 1917 Event Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea 1907 Death Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80 1892 Death Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies 1865 Death Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76 1846 Birthday Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter, Van der Goes in the Red Monastery 1838 Birthday Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer, Monastery of Delight 1833 Death Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 1827 Birthday Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder 1807 Birthday Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder, Liefdezusters 1789 Birthday Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder 1614 Death Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 1550 Birthday Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 1540 Death Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies 1474 Birthday Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint 1327 Birthday Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder, Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan 1322 Event Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect 1249 Death Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies 1236 Death Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies 1189 Death Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies 1142 Death Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies 1134 Death Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 1073 Death Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies 615 Death Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies 482 Death Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies 439 Death Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 347 Death Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
