The Domician Monastery
of having a family tomb in the church, But these did not suffice to sustain all those whom
the monastery housed. The friars, in consequence, becaipe farmers and fish-mongers. In
addition they ran a brewery, which produced four different kinds of beer. In northern
Europe beer occupied the place enjoyed by wine in the south, and was a staple element of
both the monastic and secular diet. The monastery also drew profit from the veneration of
relics. Many documents mention twelve silver reliquaries containing the heads of saints.
Some reposed on the high altar whereas others were enshrined on side altars. Each `head
was reputed to cure a different set of diseases.
In 1517 the Reformation started in German and very quickly spread into the Baltic states.
The loyalty of the friars to Rome made them immediate victims. In 1523 a Lutheran mob
burnt down the Franciscan monastery in Kuramaa. The Dominican monastery in Tallinn
was destroyed on ,1524.
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