Here they were able to begin to live their monastic life again.
He left home at the age of 14 years to lead a monastic life.
He says he's done well to survive the monastic life for so long!
After that meeting, she felt the calling to monastic life.
Following the death of his mother he entered monastic life.
In this he could see the appeal of monastic life.
He liked his association with the monastic life in this form.
However, monastic life seems to have disappeared by the end of the century.
The traditional way had been through the monastic life, the retreat from the world.
This became the norm for monastic life in the following century.