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The statistics for missions and churches served include those churches and missions over which the monasteries exercise the right of patronage, as well as those actually served by monks. Those of the former category are treated here, since they and their successors constitute the order as we understand it at the present day. They were cloistered, observing the rule of the Cistercian nuns and wearing a similar habit, but they were under the jurisdiction of the Grand Master of the knights. In England St. Augustine and his monks opened schools wherever they settled. They were not less successful in the conduct of the schools they established, of which those at Soreze, Saumur, Auxerre, Beaumont, and Saint-Jean dAngely were the most important. The Abbey of Notre Dame de Ronceray, at Angers, founded in 1028 by Fulke, Count of Anjou, was one of the most influential convents in France in the Middle Ages, and had under its jurisdiction a large number of dependent priories. One of the two, Rabanus Maurus, returning to Fulda in 813, became scholasticus or head of the school there, later abbot, and finally Archbishop of Mainz. St. Ethelburga, died c. 670; Abbess of Barking. Clement Reyner (England), b. During the penal times the Catholic Church in England was kept alive in great measure by the Benedictine missioners from abroad, not a few of whom shed their blood for the Faith. Nicolas Menard, b. John Chapman, of the Beuronese congregation, b. History of the Order; II. St. Benedicts convent at St. Joseph, Minnesota, founded in 1857, is the largest Benedictine convent in America. It should be noted here that these several attempts were directed only towards securing outward uniformity, and that as yet there was apparently no idea of a congregation, properly so called, with a central source of all legislative authority. Here they set to work, establishing conventual life, as far as was possible under the circumstances, and applying themselves assiduously to the work of the mission. The plan of the Cluniac congregation was that of one grand central monastery with a number of dependencies spread over many lands. In Spain: Montserrat, the majority of the MSS. The convents were generally either under the exclusive direction of some particular abbey, through the influence of which they had been established, or else, especially when founded by lay people, they were subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which they were situated. The sixth abbey was Rheinau, founded 778, which was suppressed in 1862; its monks, being unable to resume conventual life, were received into other monasteries of the congregation. This order now exists as one of the noble orders of knighthood, similar to those of the Garter, Bath, etc., in England. Antoine-Joseph Mege, b. 1657, d. 1709; a companion and biographer of Mabillon. Whilst there their numbers increased sufficiently to make new foundations at Erdington, England, in 1876, Prague in 1880, and Seckau, Styria, in 1883. Benedictine Monk's Knot Cincture $19.95 Buy in monthly payments with Affirm on orders over $50. It became chiefly celebrated for the literary achievements of its members, amongst whom it counted Mabillon, Montfaucon, dAchery, Marten, and many others equally famous for their erudition and industry. This congregation differs from all others in its constitution. Permission was obtained from the pope for these to unite and form a new congregation, the first general chapter of which was held in 1421, when Abbot Barbo was elected the first president. Considered the most remote Catholic monastery in the hemisphere, it can be reached only by a 13-mile single-lane earthen road that winds through the canyon. Nothing very definite can be said as to the first nuns living under the Rule of St. Benedict. The example of Cluny produced imitators and many new unions of monasteries subject to a central abbey resulted. The Emperor Francis I, however, restored several of them between the years 1809 and 1816, and in 1889 those that still survived, some twenty in number, were formed into two new congregations under the titles of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph, respectively. Benedictine Order, the, comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known as black monks. Nor was Italy behindhand, as is shown by the history of such monastic schools as Monte Cassino, Pomposia, and Bobbio. Twa new abbeys have also been added to the congregation: Quixada, founded in 1900, and St. Andre at Bruges (Belgium) in 1901, for the reception and training of subjects for Brazil. The English were the first to put into practice the decrees of the Lateran Council. Among other Benedictine saints are: St. Hildegard (Germany), b. Csarius and Aurelian of Arles, St. Martin of Tours, and St. Columbanus of Luxeuil, and up to the sixth century the rules for nuns in most general use were those of St. Ceesarius and St. Columbanus, portions of which are still extant. St. Filbert (France), d. 684; founder of Jumieges. For this reason the novices quarters are generally placed, if possible, in a different part of the monastery from those occupied by the professed monks. In 1872 a colony was sent to Belgium to found the Abbey of Maredsous, of which Dom Placid was first abbot. Edward Cuthbert Butler (England), b. Benedictine Order, the, comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known as "black monks". St. Frances of Rome, b. 1669; d. 1734; librarian and historian of Benediktbeuern. The Carthusian order is still considered the strictest order of the Roman Catholic Church. St. Hilda was the most celebrated of the abbesses of Whitby, and it was at Whitby that the synod which decided the paschal controversy was held in 664. 1654, d. 1739. The former comprises ten houses under the presidency of the Abbot of Gottweig, and the latter seven, with the Abbot of Salzburg at its head. Paschal II (Tuscany), 1099-1118; a monk of Cluny. They made no solemn vows, neither were they strictly enclosed, nor forbidden to enjoy the use of their possessions. The influence exercised by the Order of St. Benedict has manifested itself chiefly in three directions: (1) the conversion of the Teutonic races and other missionary works; (2) the civilization of northwestern Europe; (3) educational work and the cultivation of literature and the arts, the forming of libraries, etc. St. Stephen or Etienne (France), d. 1124; founder of Grammont (1076). 1639, d. 1699; a companion of Mabillon. Peter the Deacon (Italy), died c. 1140; a monk of Monte Cassino. Robert of Arbrissel, formerly chancellor to the Duke of Brittany, embraced an eremitical life in which he had many disciples, and having founded a monastery of canons regular, carried out a new idea in 1099 when he established the double Abbey of Fontevrault in Poitou, famous in France for many centuries. The monks and nuns both kept the Benedictine Rule, to which were added some additional austerities. In the island of Mauritius the Bishop of Port Louis is generally an English Benedictine. Wherever the monks went, those who were not employed in preaching tilled the ground; thus whilst some sowed in pagan souls the seeds of the Christian Faith, others transformed barren wastes and virgin forests into fruitful fields and verdant meadows. Richard Whiting, abbot of Glastonbury, Bl. Around many of the greater monasteries towns grew up which have since become famous in history; Monte Cassino in Italy and Peterborough and St. Albans in England are examples. St. Justus (Italy), d. 627; came to England (601); first Bishop of Rochester (6114) and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury (624). 1861. Even in the Cluniac congregation the power of the Abbot of Cluny was, after the twelfth century, somewhat curtailed by the institution of chapters and definitors. A decree of the Brazilian government in 1855 forbade the further reception of novices, and the result was that when the empire came to an end in 1889, the entire congregation numbered only about twelve members, of whom eight were abbots of over seventy years of age. The nuns are chiefly occupied with the work of education, which comprises elementary schools as well as boarding schools for secondary education. In its ordinary meaning the term implies one complete religious family, made up of a number of monasteries, a 11 of which are subject to a common superior or general who usually resides either in Rome or in the mother-house of the order, if there be one. Benedictine monks are a religious order of monks and nuns of the Roman Catholic Church living under the Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia (circa 480 - circa 547). (The three latter are printed by Herrgott in Vetus Disciplina Monastica, Paris, 1726.) All these colleges flourished until the Reformation, and even after the dissolution of the monasteries many of the ejected monks retired to Oxford on their pensions, to pass the remainder of their days in the peace and seclusion of their Alma Mater. St. Chrodegang.Besides those communities which professedly adhered to the Benedictine Rule in all its strictness, there were others founded for some special work or purpose, which, while not claiming to be Benedictine, took that Rule as the basis upon which to ground their own particular legislation. The order will be considered in this article under the following sections: I. The Abbey provides a rich and unique Catholic spiritual life rooted in Benedictine values. Beginning with St. Augustines arrival in England in 597, the missionary work of the order can be easily traced. St. Anselm (Italy), b. Lioba, Thecla, and Walburga were the earliest of these pioneers, and for them and their companions, who were chiefly from Wimborne, St. Boniface established many convents throughout the countries in which he preached. It had up to that time given to the Church no less than 24 popes, 200 cardinals, 7,000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, and over 1,500 canonized saints. Thierry Ruinart, b. The Bohemians and the Poles, nevertheless, owed their conversion respectively to the Benedictine missionaries Adalbert (d. 997) and Casimir (d. 1058), whilst Bavaria and what is now the Austrian Empire were evangelized first by monks from Gaul in the seventh century, and later on by St. Boniface and his disciples. 1834, d 1897; Archbishop of Naples; formerly Abbot of La Cava. Roger Bede Vaughan, b. These two conditions of existence have survived to the present day; there are nine belonging to the first and over two hundred and fifty to the second category. Sts. History of the Order; II. On the other side, as representing those that preserved the traditional autonomy and family spirit in the individual houses, we have the Bursfeld Union which, in the fifteenth century, made an honest attempt to carry out the Lateran decrees and the provisions of the Bull Benedictina. The Knights of Calatrava owed their origin to the abbot and monks of the Cistercian monastery of Fitero. The monks preserved and perpetuated the ancient writings which, but for their industry, would undoubtedly have been lost to us. There, as also in Switzerland, it had to contend with and supplement the much stricter Irish or Celtic Rule introduced by St. Columbanus and others. The abbots of each province or congregation were to meet in chapter every third year, with power to pass laws binding on all, and to appoint from amongst their own number visitors who were to make canonical visitations of the monasteries and to report upon their condition to the ensuing chapter. Fernand Cabrol (France), b. Without doubt the copying was often merely mechanical and no sign of real scholarship, and the pride taken by a monastery in the number and beauty of its MSS. St. Bede (England), b. FOUNDATIONS ORIGINATING FROM OR BASED UPON THE BENEDICTINE ORDER. To further this end he brought over from England in 782 Alcuin and several of the best scholars of York, to whom he entrusted the direction of the academy established at the royal court, as well as various other schools which he caused to be started in different parts of the empire. Into Lithuania and the Eastern Empire the Benedictine Rule never penetrated in early times, and the great schism between East and West effectually prevented any possibilities of development in that direction. He went to St. Pauls, Rome, where he was joined by his two brothers, and all were professed in 1856, one dying soon after. At Ghent in 1624 a convent was founded under Jesuit guidance, and established daughter-houses at Boulogne in 1652, Ypres in 1665, and Dunkirk in 1662. During the first four or five centuries after the death of St. Benedict there existed no organic bond of union amongst the various abbeys other than the Rule itself and obedience to the Holy See. The Brazilian government refusing them permission to return to that. A small community of nuns support themselves by making chewy "Praylines" with real butter, fresh cream, Texas. the Camaldolese, Cistercians, and Olivetans, who wear white, or the Sylvestrines, whose habit is blue. It gradually came to embrace all of the chief Benedictine houses of Italy, to the number of nearly two hundred, divided into seven provinces, Rome, Naples, Sicily, Tuscany, Venice, Lombardy, and Genoa. St. Paschasius Radbertus (Germany), d. 860; Abbot of Corbie. Some of these have continued to the present day, and this congregational system is now, with very few exceptions and some slight variations in matters of detail, the normal form of government thoughout the order. (a) The Knights Templars, founded in 1118. In the majority of these congregations the missions are attached to certain abbeys and the monks serving them are under the almost exclusive control of their own monastic superiors; in others the monks only supply the place of the secular clergy and are, therefore, for the time being, under their respective diocesan bishops. 1645, d. 1694; a companion of Mabillon. All the congregations of more recent formation have been constituted, with slight variations, on the same plan, which represents the normal and traditional form of government in the order. The habit worn by the lay brethren is usually a modification of that of the choir monks, sometimes differing from it in color as well as in shape; and the vows of the lay brethren are in most congregations only simple, or renewable periodically, in contrast with the solemn vows for life taken by the choir religious. removed to Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris, 1638, the remainder, partly to the National Library, Paris (1794), and partly to the town library of Amiens; Saint-Germain-des-Pres; Cluny, MSS. Lay brothers, Oblates, Confraters, and Nuns; III. These were the first regular canons, and the idea thus started spread very rapidly to almost every cathedral of France, Germany, and Italy, as well as to some in England. Besides St. Vincents ArchAbbey, the following foundations have been made: St. It is a cloistered, private community for the monks, which includes chapels, recreational spaces and a great hall for dining. still existing; Valladolid; Salamanca; Silos, library still existing; Madrid. Fleury adopted the Cluniac reform, as did also St. Benignus of Dijon, though without subjection to that organization; and all were eventually absorbed by the congregation of St. Maur in the seventeenth century, excepting St. Claude, which preserved its independence until the Revolution, Val-des-Choux, which became Cistercian, and Lerins, which in 1505 joined the Italian congregation of St. Justina of Padua. You can buy it in. 1840; Abbot of La Cava (1894); Archbishop of Benevento (1902). In some communities at the present time the lay brothers equal and even outnumber the priests, especially in those, like Beuron or New Nursia, where farming and agriculture are carried out on a large scale. Paris, Tours, and Lyons have been mentioned; amongst others were Reims and Bologna, and, in England, Cambridge, where the Benedictines of Croyland first set up a school in the twelfth century. At the beginning of the fourteenth century the order is estimated to have comprised the enormous number of 37,000 monasteries. In 1504 its title was changed to that of the Cassinese Congregation. Here they are gradually rebuilding the abbey on its original foundations. Apart from matters explicitly defined, the abbot primates position with regard to the other abbots is to be understood rather from the analogy of a primate in a hierarchy than from that of the general of an order like the Dominicans or Jesuits. The following new foundations were made: Conception Abbey, Conception, Missouri (1873), the abbot of this abbey being president of the congregation; New Subiaco Abbey, Spielerville, Arkansas (1878); St. Benedicts Abbey, Mount Angel, Oregon (1882); St. Josephs Abbey, Covington, Louisiana (1889); St. Marys Abbey, Richardton, North Dakota (1899); St. Galls Priory, Devils Lake (1893), the last two communities subject to the same abbot. John Cuthbert Hedley, b. As a Benedictine monk, Abbot Peter belonged to a community of readers engaged in the study of Christian sacred texts and related literature. The custom led to many abuses in the Middle Ages, because oblates sometimes abandoned the religious life and returned to the world, whilst still looked upon as professed religious. Previous to the institution of monasticism labor had been regarded as the symbol of slavery and serfdom, but St. Benedict and his followers taught in the West that lesson of free labor which had first been inculcated by the fathers of the desert. The arguments and authorities for this statement have been admirably marshalled and estimated by Reyner in his Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia (Douai, 1626), and his proofs have been adjudged by Mabillon to amount to demonstration. In 1633, by the Bull Plantata, Pope Urban VIII bestowed upon the restored English congregation every privilege, grant, indulgence, faculty, and other prerogative which had ever belonged to the ancient English congregation and also approved of its members taking an oath by which they bound themselves to labor for the reconversion of their country. Having ceased to exist in 1846, it was revived on a small scale by the Abbot of St. Pauls, and reconstituted in 1886 as a college and university for Benedictines from all parts of the world by Leo XIII, who at his own expense erected the present extensive buildings. This mode of Propagation, together with the various reforms that propagation, to appear in the eleventh and succeeding centuries, paved the way for the system of independent congregations, still a feature peculiar to the Benedictine Order. There were failures and scandals in Benedictine history, just as there were declensions from the right path outside the cloister, for monks are, after all, but men. Gregoire Tarrisse, b. Both American congregations labor amongst the Indians, iri Saskatchewan (N. W. T., Canada), Dakota, Vancouvers Island, and elsewhere. Early in the ninth century two monks of Fulda were sent to Tours by their abbot to study under Alcuin, and through them the revival of learning gradually spread to other houses. Lay brothers were entrusted with the more menial work of the monastery, and all those duties that involved intercourse with the outside world, in order that the choir brethren might be free to devote themselves entirely to prayer and other occupations proper to their clerical vocation. St. Elphege or Aelfheah (England), d. 1012; Archbishop of Canterbury (1006); killed by the Danes. He also declared it to be the true successor to all the privileges formerly enjoyed by the congregations of Cluny, St.-Vannes, and St.-Maur. Source for information on Benedictine Abbeys and Priories in the U.S.: New Catholic Encyclopedia dictionary. The remaining countries all received the Gospel during the next few centuries, either wholly or partially through the preaching of the Benedictines. A reform was initiated in 1558 in the Abbey of St. Thirso, monks from Spain being introduced for the purpose. 1655, d. 1741. The rise of the scholastics, for the most part outside the Benedictine Order, in late medieval times, seems to have checked, or at any rate relegated to the background, both the literary and the educational activity of the black monks, whilst the introduction of the art of printing rendered superfluous the copying of MSS. In Spain there were: (b) The Knights of Calatrava founded in 1158 to assist in protecting Spain against the Moorish invasions. In modern times the monks of Beuron have established a school of art where painting and design, especially in the form of polychromatic decoration, have been brought to a high stage of perfection. Some were even semi-eremitical in their constitution, and oneFontevraultconsisted of double monasteries, the religious of both sexes being under the rule of the abbess. According to Father Benedict, one of the glories of the Benedictine order is that their sole reason for existence is "the lifelong search for God in separation from the world, and the perpetual. The latest addition to Norcia's menu of gourmet comestibles is "Birra Nursia", produced by Norcia's Benedictine Monks.

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