Cistercian

The next great monastic revival, the Cistercian, arising in the last years of the 11th century, had a wider diffusion, and a longer and more honourable existence. Owing its real origin, as a distinct foundation of reformed Benedictines, in the year 1098, to Stephen Harding (a native of Dorset, educated in the monastery of Sherborne), and deriving its name from Citeaux (Cistercium), a desolate and almost inaccessible forest solitude, on the borders of Champagne and Burgundy, the rapid growth and wide celebrity of the order are undoubtedly to ...

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This article is about the Roman Catholic order; see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. The Order of Saint Benedict — full Latin name: Ordo Sancti Benedicti , initials: OSB — is a monastic order within the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes referred to as the Benedictine Order, where the Rule of St Benedict is observed, supplemented by later constitutions and modern customaries. It is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders: there is no legal entity within the Church ...

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The word abbot, meaning father, has been used as a Christian clerical title in various, mainly monastic, meanings. Abbot - Origins. The title had its origin in the monasteries of Syria, spread through the eastern Mediterranean, and soon became accepted generally in all languages as the designation of the head of a monastery. Originally, the word, meaning father, was applied to various priests, e.g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus ('of the palace') and Abbas castrensis ('of t ...

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Alfonso VI (before June 1040 – July 1, 1109), nicknamed the Brave, was king of León from 1065 to 1109 and king of Castile since 1072 after his brother's death. As he was the first Alfonso to be King of Castile he is sometimes referred to as Alfonso I of Castile. In 1077, he proclaimed himself "emperor of all Spain". Much romance has gathered round his name. As the second and favorite son of King Ferdinand I of Castile, Alfonso was alloted Castile, while Leon was given to the eldest son Sancho, and Galicia to the youngest brother Garcia. Sancho died in 1072, and Garc ...

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Alvastra is a small town in Ödeshög Municipality in eastern Sweden. It is known for being the seat of the Alvastra monastery of the Cistercian order in the middle ages. After the Swedish Lutheran reformation in the 1530s, the monastery was demolished, never to be rebuilt. The Alvastra monastery ruin is today a well preserved and popular place to visit. Category: Towns in Sweden ...

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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Fontaines, near Dijon, 1090 – August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux) was a French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the intellectual revival of Western Europe called the Renaissance of the 12th century. The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Christian church from 1125 to 1153 (Cantor 1993), he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1830. Bernard is a saint of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches and was the ...

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• Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy
• Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard's character
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The largest, and most powerful of the Christian military orders, the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, originally named The Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple which is in Jerusalem is widely known as the Knights Templar. It was founded in 1118, in the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1096, to help the new Kingdom of Jerusalem maintain itself against its hostile Muslim neighbors, and to ensure the safety of the large numbers of European pilgrims who flowed towards Jerusalem after its conquest.Including:

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Saint Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis. He is the most famous classical proponent of natural theology. He gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Catholic Church. He is considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest theologian and one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church. The ...

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Abbeys and priories in England is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other monastic religious house in England. Abbeys and priories in England - Abbreviations and Key. List of abbeys and priories, Abbeys and priories in Scotland, Abbeys and priories in Wales, Abbeys and priories in Isle of Man, Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland, Abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland, List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England, Dissolution of the Monasterie ...

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Saint Birgitta, also known as St. Bridget of Sweden (1303 – July 23, 1373), was a saint, mystic, pilgrim, and founder of the Bridgettine Order. The most celebrated saint of Sweden and the northern kingdoms, was the daughter of Birger Persson, governor and lawspeaker of Uppland, and one of the richest landowners of the country. In 1316 she was married to Ulf Gudmarson, lord of Närke, to whom she bore eight children, one of whom was afterwards honoured as St. Catherine of Sweden. Birgitta’s saintly and charitab ...

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Clairvaux abbey (Clara Vallis in Latin) was founded in 1115 by St. Bernard. It is located in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, 15 km away from Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département in northeastern France. The building of the abbey in now in ruins. The parc is nowadays occupied by a high-security prison (see Clairvaux Prison). All Cistercian monasteries were arranged according to one plan, unless the circumstances of the locality forbade it. Clairvaux abbey is a good example of the general arrangement and distribution of the various buildings w ...

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A water wheel (also waterwheel, Norse mill, Persian wheel or noria) is a hydropower system; a system for extracting power from a flow of water. It was a widely used system in the Middle Ages, powering most industry in Europe, along with the windmill. The most common use of the water wheel was to mill flour, where it was known as the watermill, but other uses included foundry work and machining, and pounding linen for use in paper. The largest waterwheels in ...

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Caesar of Heisterbach, also known as Caesarius of Heisterbach ca. 1170 - ca. 1250, was the prior of a former Cistercian monastery of Heisterbach, in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf, Germany. He is best known as the compiler of a book of hagiography that contains many wondrous tales of miracles in the form of dialogues between a monk and a novice, the Dialogus magnus visionum ac miraculorum, which is a consistently readable and entertaining, if somewhat sensationalistic and credulous, compi ...

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Baden is a town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, on the left bank of the river Limmat, 25 km N.W. of Zürich. Permanent population (2002): 16,000. Baden Switzerland - Sights. Baden is chiefly visited by reason of its hot sulphur springs, which are mentioned by Tacitus (Histories i. cap. 7) and were very fashionable in the 15th and 16th centuries. They are especially efficacious in cases of gouty and rheumatic affections. They lie a little north of the old town at the river. Many Roman remains have been ...

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Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (c.1501/1507 – May 19, 1536) was the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne was part of the complex beginning of the considerable political and religious upheaval which was the English Reformation, with Anne herself actively promoting the cause of Church Reform. She is probably best known for her premature death when she was beheaded on false charges of adultery and ...

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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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The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. In 1098 Saint Robert, born of a noble family in Champagne, France, at first a Benedictine monk and then abbot of certain hermits, settled at Molesme near Chatillon. Being dissatisfied with the manner of life and observance there, he migrated with twenty of the monks to a swampy place ("a place of horrors") called Citeaux in the d ...

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Port-Royal was a Cistercian convent in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. It was established in 1204, but became famous as an educational institution when its discipline was reformed in 1602 by its abbess Jacqueline Arnauld. The Arnauld family became its patrons and the convent's subsequent history was directed by a number of the holders of that name. In 1625 most of the nuns moved to a new Port-Royal in Paris, which subsequently became Port-Royal de Paris while the older one was known as Port-R ...

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The Abbey of Sénanque (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France. It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of the bishop of Cavaillon, and Raymond Berenger II, Count of Provence, by Cistercian monks who came from the Abbey of Maza in the Vivarais. Temporary huts housed the first community of monks, who found patrons in the seigneuurs of Simiane and enabled them to raise the abbey church, consecrated in 1178. By 1152 the community already had so many members that Sénanque was able to fo ...

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