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		For the next seven years the Order, whil vested with international soverignty, was deprived of territory, until the cession by the Emperor Charles V (in his capacity as King of Sicily) of the islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, as well as Tripoli in North Africa, in sovereign fief.
		The navy of the Order of St. John (or of Malta as it now came to be called) became one of the most powerful in the Mediterranean and took part in the final destruction of the Ottoman naval might in the great battle of Lepanto in 1571.
		From 1805 the Order was ruled by Lieutenants, until in 1879 Pope Leo XIII restored the Grandmastership and the honours of a Cardinal attaching to it.
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	Benedictines - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The first Benedictine monastery was at Monte Cassino, Italy, which came to be regarded as the symbolic center of Western monasticism.
		a reform began at the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, France, that resulted in the development of the Cluniac order ; at Cluny the liturgy was significantly expanded.
		Benedictine nuns, originally founded by St. Benedict and his sister Scholastica as an enclosed order, now often do missionary and educational work in communities.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Benedictines
		benedictine, sweet liqueur originated in 1510 by Benedictine monks at Fécamp, France, and now manufactured by a secular concern on the grounds of the old abbey.
		Cluniac order, medieval organization of Benedictines centered at the abbey of Cluny, France.
		Prophet sharing: in her acceptance speech for the 2002 U.S. Catholic Award, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, speaking on behalf of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, sketches the prophetic vocation of women religious today.
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		Orders of chivalry, like the Church in general, were recipients of many donations, often in the form of land (e.g., a lord would become a knight and give his possessions to his order).
		At this point, then, orders of chivalry are an association of individuals, typically members of the knightly class, committing themselves through solemn vows to obey the rules and statutes of a religious order and to engage as professional soldiers in a permanent religious war, but also in religious and charitable activities.
		The Order of Saint-Louis was a transparent allusion to Louis XIV disguised as a religious dedication, but Maria-Theresa was the first to be explicit; she was followed by Charles III, and in the 19th century by many sovereigns (queens in particular).
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	The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB). Index. Information about monastic Benedictines, men and women, and the Rule of ...
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		Benedictine Musicians of the Americas; Partners Across Borders.
		Anglican Benedictines and Friends of St. Benedict; and others.
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	Search Results for "Benedictines"
		...Cluniac order, (kloo´ne-ak´) (KEY), medieval organization of Benedictines centered at the abbey of Cluny, France.
		It is now restricted to priests and choir monks among the Benedictines, and some few other monastic orders, as Dom Mabillon, Dom...
		The fl habit of the Benedictines was changed to unbleached white and the Cistercians became known as...
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	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Cistercian Order Of The Common Observance
		Their purpose was not indeed to launch a new Order — such was far from Robert's intention — but merely to establish a Benedictine community where the Rule of the founder could be literally observed in all its pristine simplicity.
		They were the first mendicant Orders, and while working for subsistence was not prohibited, it was made secondary to their ministry of preaching and succoring the poor.
		Armand-Jean le Bouthillier de Ranee, born to the nobility, godson of Cardinal Richelieu, son of the secretary of Marie de Medicis, was made at the tender age of ten, commendatory abbot of the Cistercian abbey of La Grande Trappe.
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		It is a peculiarity of the Carmelite Order that although one of the Mendicant Orders, living amongst people in the world and engaged in active life, it retains the greatest love for solitude and aloofness from the world and considers solitude and contemplation as the better part of its spiritual life.
		The Order is privileged to honour as a model and example the great Prophet of the Old Testament and to regard his life as the expression of the life lived in Carmel's school.
		According to the ancient document concerning the Order's spirit, the attainment of this high state of mystical communion is put forward as the aim of all Carmelites and all are obliged to conform their lives to this lofty ideal, but at the same time the free character of the mystical grace is insisted upon.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SPIRIT/SKETCHES.TXT (21930 words)

	Titus Brandsma: Carmelite Mysticism Historical Sketches: In the spirit and strength of Elijah
		However, the double spirit of the prophet is spoken of in a third sense as the harmonious union of the human exercise of virtue and the divine infusion of mystical life; the union of the via purgativa and illuminativa with the via unitiva.
		Our Order is not an Order of liturgical prayer, like the old Eastern Order of the Basilians or the Western Order of the Benedictines, but liturgical prayer has a special confirmation in our own Rite and must always hold a high place in our living with God.
		Being a mendicant Order, its churches and cloisters are plain and simple in their architecture, but in the adornment of their churches and altars poverty is not prescribed.
	carmelnet.org /titus/html/lect011.htm (4197 words)

	Anglicans Online \| Religious Orders
		A new order in the USA, 'established to provide a place for Anglican women to live out the principles of classic religious life in the context of active ministry, with a focus on prayer, community, and mission.
		Members of the Order are working in partnership with a variety of churches and denominations around the world, to raise up, equip and support missional leaders who will pioneer new expressions of church for our day and in our cultures.
		The OSA is an ecumenical religious order of men and women, both single and married, not living in community, dedicated to the spread of the Good News of Christ.
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	Benedictines, Saint Benedict
		The Order of St. Benedict (O. B.) is the oldest order of monks in the West.
		The Benedictine life is led within a community in the context of personal recollection and work, interspersed with the public recitation or singing of the Divine Office.
		The Benedictine habit is generally fl, composed of tunic, belt, scapular, and hood, and a large flowing garment called the cowl for public worship.
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	Saints of June 14
		Cearan was an Irish abbot of Bellach-Duin (Castle- Keerant), County Meath (Benedictines).
		Hartwig was the 21st archbishop of Salzburg (991-1023) (Benedictines).
		Roman missionaries who were martyred at Soissons while evangelizing Gaul according to the Benedictine of Ramsgate, while Husenbeth relates a somewhat different story: Valerius and Rufinus were overseers of the imperial taxes in the territory of Soissons.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0614.htm (1666 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint-Die
		Gregory V, in 996, agreed to the change and decided that the grand preévôt, the principal dignitary of the abbey should depend directly upon the Holy See.
		At a later period the Benedictine nuns were replaced by a chapter of ninety-eight canonesses who had to prove 200 years of nobility, and whose last abbess, under the old régime, was the Princess de Bourbon Condé, sister of the Duke of Enghien; she was prioress of the Monastery of the Temple at her death.
		Among the congregations of nuns founded in the diocese may be mentioned besides the Sisters of Providence, the Soeurs du Pauvre Enfant Jésus (also known as the Soeurs de la bienfaisance chrétienne), teachers and hospitallers, founded in 1854 at Chemoy l'Orgueilleux; the mother-house was transferred to Remiremont.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13344b.htm (1233 words)

	Austria - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		One such school, the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, has been in continuous operation by the order of the Benedictines since 1155.
		The imposing Benedictine abbey at Melk, perched on a rocky cliff above the Danube, typified baroque tastes in Austria and advertised the triumph of the Counter Reformation.
		Small groups of students and workers, as well as liberally oriented members of the middle class, demanded that Metternich leave office and that a constitution be granted.
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	HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
		Luther belonged to the order of St. Augustine, and the monastic discipline of Erfurt was to him a preparation for evangelical freedom, as the Mosaic law was to Paul a schoolmaster to lead to Christ.
		The poverty of the individual, however, does not exclude the possession of common property; and it is well known, that some monastic orders, especially the Benedictines, have in course of time grown very rich.
		As obedience to orders and sacrifice of self is the first duty of the soldier, and the condition of military success and renown, so also in this spiritual army in its war against the flesh, the world, and the devil, monks are not allowed to have a will of their own.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/history/3_ch04.htm (15161 words)

	THE POPE'S FUNERAL AND THE MALACHY PROPHECY :: The Remote Viewer :: RVT
		The Order of St. Benedict claims this final pope will come within the Benedictine Order, and that he was placed in the secession line because St. Benedict himself prophesied that before the end of the world, his Order will triumphantly lead the Catholic Church in its battle against evil (the Battle of Armageddon).
		But even more important, the godless, secular New World Order that will see the fulfillment of the prophesies in Revelation 13 (one world government), Revelation 17 (the one world church) and Revelation 18 (the one world economy) was born in 1920—during his reign.
		The Order of the Benedictines is also known as the "Olivetans." St. Benedict prophesied that the last pope would be from that order.
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	Benedictines. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, following the rule of St. Benedict [Lat.
		A.D. Benedict of Aniane attempted to standardize monastic practices in the Carolingian Empire according to the Rule of St. Benedict.
		a reform began at the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, France, that resulted in the development of the Cluniac order; at Cluny the liturgy was significantly expanded.
	www.bartleby.com /65/be/BenedctMon.html (392 words)

	Catholic Pages Directory: » Religious Life » MEN'S ORDERS
		Orders Initials A page with a comprehensive list of the Initials used by the different Orders and Congregations within the church.
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		Vincent's and Louise's Family Tree The international institutes, orders and organizations descending from the charitable organizations founded by St. Vincent de Paul.
	www.catholic-pages.com /dir/orders_men.asp (501 words)

	Journey Part 11 and Notes
		The Cluniacs were a reformed order of the Benedictines, which is why I gave Darius a fl habit in the flashback sequence of my story.
		The priory was disbanded in 1655, and the church became the chapel of the Hôtel Dieu (the Paris charity hospital).
		In order to free the world from the power of Ahriman, the Fravashis chose to make the sacrifice of incarnation, and became warriors on the side of the Light.
	www.angelfire.com /film/bookofdarius/journ6.html (3503 words)

	Language in India
		The order of the Benedictines founded by Benedict (529 A.D.) was the oldest and the most famous at the time of Martin Luther.
		The order of the Franciscans and the order of the Dominicans were organized in the Thirteenth Century.
		Although the nuns and the monks of the orders were subject to the authority of the bishop in whose jurisdiction they lived, some of the heads of the orders (abbots or priors, as they were were called) sought and obtained the right to be responsible only to the Pope at Rome.
	www.christianliteratureandliving.com /may2002/lutherbook2.html (21787 words)

	Benedictines — FactMonster.com
		Benedictines, religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, following the rule of St.
		benedictine - benedictine, sweet liqueur originated in 1510 by Benedictine monks at Fécamp, France, and...
		Saint Gall, former Benedictine abbey, Switzerland - Saint Gall, former Benedictine abbey, at St. Gall, Switzerland.
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	Venice: The Methodology of Evil, Part II
		A network was formed, consisting of young nobles from the University of Padua, and another group which had decided to become Camaldolese monks, an order of the Benedictines.
		Later, in 1518, when Luther was ordered to Rome to face charges of heresy, it was Spalatinus who interceded with Frederick, the Elector of Saxony, to prevent his going.
		At the beginning of the Diet, Charles V had ordered that all negotiations be conducted in secret, but word of Article V leaked out.
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	WW-III heroes : Chiren and the Pope
		All religious orders will be abolished, except one having the rules of the most rigid and most severe institute of the ancient monks.
		Benedict established the order of the Benedictines or "Olivetans" as they are popularly known.
		Although Ratzinger is not from the order but by taking the name Benedict, who started the order, the prophecy was perhaps made to fulfill.
	www.angelfire.com /psy/nostradamus/chiren.htm (5618 words)

	Roman Catholic Religious Orders and Ecology
		The members choose not to own anything, to live as celibates and to obey their abbot or abbess.
		Today, there are several thousand orders and congregations in the Roman Catholic Church.
		Many use a rule that has been influenced by one of the four largest orders; The Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans and Jesuits.
	www.ofm-jpic.org /ecology/relorders/index.html (327 words)

	Viaggiatore - Croatia : Places to See
		In the course of the centuries, the palace of Dioclezian transformed in a lively town; many of the ancient buildings were demolished in order to make place for the new ones.
		In order to escape from the persecutions of Diocleziano, he departed to Titano Mountain where he founded a religious community and a monastry from where Marino would derive today's Saint.
		Ivan Krštitelj, of the XIII century, belonged to the order of the Benedictines, the most important of Trogir.
	www.enjoy-croatia.com /placestosee.htm (2417 words)

	Prolog: March 14
		When Benedict became known in the vicinity and in order to retreat from the glory of man, he withdrew from this cave.
		Later on, he founded the special order of the Benedictines which exists even today in the Roman Church.
		On the sixth day before his death, he ordered that his grave which had been prepared earlier be opened for the saint foresaw that his end was near.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?day=14&month=March (1134 words)

	Hungary for Visitors 2005
		The baroque building of Apátúr ház (Abbey House) with its ornamental facade was once possessed by the religious order of the Benedictines.
		Prominent figures of Hungarian science and literature, like Ányos Jedlik, inventor of the dynamo, were engaged in teaching at the Benedictine Secondary School, and such students learnt there as János Xantus geographer, who the museum was named after.
		Szent Ignác Church was built after the example of Il Gésu in Rome, in the middle of the 17th century.
	www.visitors.hu /05_02_en.html (788 words)

	Longfellow Notes: Paradiso 11.001-138
		The permission to found the Order of Minor Friars, or Franciscans, granted by Pope Innocent III., in 1214, was confirmed by Pope Honorius III., in 1223.
		To the degeneracy of this Order the remainder of the canto is devoted.
		The Order of the Dominicans diminished in numbers, by its members going in search of prelacies and other ecclesiastical oftices, till it is like a tree hacked and hewn.
	dante.ilt.columbia.edu /comedy/comedy_hc/dante_longfellow/lf_notes/par/paracan11.htm (2832 words)

	June 19 Saints of the Day
		His father later became a monk, wavered and was kept faithful by the encouragement of his son.
		Finally, after he had lived in many places, perceiving that his end was near, he returned to the monastery he had built in the valley of Castro.
		While he awaited with certainty his approaching death, he ordered a cell to be constructed there with an oratory in which he might isolate himself and preserve silence until death.
	www.religion-cults.com /saints/june19.htm (491 words)

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