Benedictines

The monks became known as Benedictines and took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to their leaders.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

The monks became known as Benedictines and took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to their leaders.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

(first published by the Benedictines from a MS. of Chartres) he observes, that he used this cautious expression, qui intelligerum et impiam, p. 1206.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The Convent of the Benedictines, which is converted into the palace of the prefect, is a noble building.

The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. John Carr 1802

But a mistaken piety had produced in Italy a new species of monks, called Benedictines; who, carrying farther the plan sible principles of mortification, secluded themselves entirely from the world, renounced all claim to liberty, and made a merit of the most inviolable chastity.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743

Abbé Dujarié, the mother-house being at Ruillé-sur-Loir; the Sisters of the Child Jesus, teachers and nurses, founded in 1835, with their mother-house at Le Mans; the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross, founded in 1841 with their mother-house at Le Mans and important educational institutions in New York and Louisiana; the Benedictine nuns of the Congregation of France known as the Benedictines of St. Cecilia, founded at Solesmes in 1867 by Dom Guéranger and Mother

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

a particular group of men: the patriarchs or married men in the first age; the clerics in the second age; the third age would be the age of spiritual monks of whom the Benedictines were the precursors.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GORDON LEFF 1968

The Franciscans transformed the spiritual life of 13th-century Europe, especially among the laity in the growing cities, very much as the Benedictines had transformed the spiritual life of a more rural society centuries before.

Parallel Lives Jonathan Sumption 2011

Certainly among the Benedictines we tried to adapt to the latest technology in every generation.

How Many iPhone Developers Wear Wimples? Ben Rooney 2011

I was educated first by Dominicans and then, from the age of thirteen, by Benedictines at Downside.

William Nicholson discusses Seeker, the first volume in a three part trilogy for teens 2010