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Monasticism in the West owes its extension and development to Benedict of Nursia (born A.D. 480). His rule was diffused with miraculous rapidity from the parent foundation on Monte Cassino through the whole of western Europe, and every country witnessed the erection of monasteries far exceeding anything that had yet been seen in spaciousness and splendour. Few great towns in Italy were without their Benedictine convent, and they quickly rose in all the great centres of population in England, France and Spain. The number of these monasteries ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - 998

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Buckfast Abbey

Buckfast Abbey in Buckfastleigh, Devon is one of a small number of active monasteries in Britain today. It was founded in 1018, dedicated to Saint Mary, and run by the Cistercian order from 1147 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Today it is a Benedictine foundation. Between 1536, when it was dissolved, and 1882, the abbey lay in ruins. Then a group of Benedictine monks arrived, lived among the ruins, and gradually re-built the abbey much as it had been. The church itself was restored by the monks themselves, in 1907-190 ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Chertsey

Chertsey is a town in Surrey, United Kingdom, on the River Thames. It can be accessed via road from junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway. It is part of the borough of Runnymede. Chertsey is a town of historical importance, having grown around Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666 by Eorcenwald, Bishop of London. After the priests were driven out by King Edgar in 964 and replaced by Benedictine monks, the Abbey grew to become one of the largest Benedictine abbeys in England, supported by large fiefs in the northwest co ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Vézelay

Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France. Vézelay - The Abbey of Vézelay. In the 9th century, the Benedictine abbey of Vézelay was founded, as many abbeys were, on land that had been a late Roman villa, of Vercellus (Vercelle becoming Vézelay). The villa had passed into the hands of the Carolingians and devolved to a Carolingian count, Girart, of Rousillon. His two convents were looted and dispersed by Moorish raiding parties ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Whitby Abbey

Whitby Abbey is a ruined monastery sited on Whitby's East Cliff. It was founded in 657 AD by the Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streanshalh (Streonshalh). He appointed Lady Hilda, niece of Edwin, the first christian king of Northumbria, as Abbess. The double monastery of Benedictine monks and nuns was also home home to the great Saxon poet Caedmon. In 664, the abbey was the site of the Synod of Whitby, at which the ...

Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Antoine Augustin Calmet

Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672-1757), French Benedictine, was born at Ménil-la-Horgne, near Commercy, Lorraine, France on the 26th of February 1672. He was educated at the Benedictine priory of Breuil, and in 1688 joined the same order in the Abbey of St-Mansuy at Toul, where he was admitted to profession 23 Oct. of the following year. After his ordination, March 17, 1696, he was appointed to teach philosophy and theology at the Abbey of Moyen-Moutier. Here with the help of his brethren he began to gather the material for his commentary of the Bible, which he completed at Münster in Alsace whe ...

Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Ælfric

Ælfric, called Grammaticus (the "Grammarian") (c. 955-1020?), was an English abbot and author. He was educated in the Benedictine monastery at Winchester under Æthelwold, who was bishop there from 963 to 984. Æthelwold had carried on the tradition of Dunstan in his government of the abbey of Abingdon, England, and at Winchester he continued his strenuous efforts. He seems to hav ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Abbey of St. Gall

The Abbey of St. Gall (German, Sankt Gallen) was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. It is located in the city of St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland. The monastery was founded in 613 and named after Gallus, an Irishman. Saint Gallus was a disciple and companion of Saint Columbanus, and died there in 646. Charles Martel placed Othmar there as custodian of St Gall's relics. During the reign of Pepin the Short Othmar founded the famous schools of St. Gall, where arts, letters and sciences fl ...

Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Johannes Trithemius

Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 - 13 December 1516) was born Johann Heidenberg. The name by which he is more commonly known is derived from his native town of Trittenheim on the Moselle in Germany. He studied at the University of Heidelberg. Travelling from university back to his home town in 1482, he was surprised by a snowstorm and took refuge in the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach. He decided to stay and was elected abbot in 1483, at the age of twenty-one. He set out to transform the abbey from a poor, ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Bury St. Edmunds Abbey

Bury St. Edmunds Abbey was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England. Its ruins lie in Bury St Edmunds, a town in the county of Suffolk, England. When in 869 AD the martyred remains of King Edmund I were enshrined at the Saxon monastery, the site had already been in religious use for nearly three centuries. However the burial made it a popular destination for pilgrimages, and the Norman abbey was begun soon after 10 ...

Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Antipope Anacletus II

Anacletus II, born Pietro Pierloni, (d. January 25, 1138) was an Antipope who ruled from 1131 to his death, in a schism against the contested hasty election of Pope Innocent II. Pierloni was born to a powerful Roman family and, as second son, was destined to the Church. He studied in Paris and entered the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny. Later he went to Rome and occupied several important positions. In 1130, Pope Honorius II was dying and Pierloni was determined to succeed him, even if it meant huge bribery. Despite support ...

Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Carmina Burana

Carmina Burana is a collection of 13th-century songs and poetry, the basis for Carl Orff's 20th-century musical settings, first performed in 1937. Carmina Burana - The manuscript. The original Carmina Burana is the manuscript collection, now in the Bavarian State Library in Munich, of over 1000 poems and songs written by the early 13th century. Johann Andreas Schmeller assigned it that title (meaning "Songs of Beuern") in 1847 when he compiled it at the Benedictine abbey ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia - Brother Cadfael

Brother Cadfael is a fictional character, the detective in a series of murder mysteries by Edith Pargeter writing under the name "Ellis Peters." Cadfael is a Benedictine monk, the herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, near the Welsh border. Cadfael himself is of Welsh extraction; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd and he was born around 1080 to a villein (serf) family in Trefriw, in Gwynedd (northern Wales). The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil wa ...

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Abbey - Benedictine abbeys: Encyclopedia II - Westminster Abbey - History

According to tradition, a shrine was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorney Island; it was said to have been miraculously consecrated after a fisherman on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter, and for many centuries the monks received presents of salmon from the Thames fishermen. While the existence of this shrine is uncertain, there was certainly a community of Benedictine monks before the first historic Abbey was built by King Edward the Confessor around 1045-1050. Its construction originated in King Edward ...

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