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| | Celestines -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Celestines, a branch of the great (A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict) Benedictine (A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work) monastic ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families) order, founded in 1244. |
 | | According to their special constitutions the Celestines were bound to say (The first canonical hour; at daybreak) matins in the (The area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave) choir at two o'clock in the morning, and always to abstain from eating meat, save in illness. |
 | | The order of Celestines has had its special (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) historians, as Becquet, author of a history of the Celestines of France (Paris, 1719), and in the great collection of the Bollandists, vol. |
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