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	Monastery of the Holy Spirit: VIII. The Abbey Church
		Cistercian spirituality has always centered in the reality of divine love, a love that could and would lead the monk to his ultimate aim of the union of the soul with God.
		The Conyers monastery was being formed precisely during this period of increasing recognition of the significance of the original Cistercian ideals as a workable basis for monastic life in the twentieth century.
		Thus in the course of construction the monks reduced by twenty feet the height of the vault projected by the architect.
	www.trappist.net /newweb/hist8.html (1770 words)

	Cistercians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cistercians at the beginning renounced all sources of income arising from benefices, tithes, tolls and rents, and depended for their income wholly on the land.
		There have always been a large number of Cistercian nuns; the first nunnery was founded at Tart in the diocese of Langres, 1125; at the period of their widest extension there are said to have been 900 nunneries, and the communities were very large.
		Warehouse of the Cistercian monastery of Santa María de Huerta in the province of Soria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cistercians (2136 words)

	Monks and Nuns of the Middle Ages
		Monks and nuns are following their orders, sewing or opening the door to travelers, the sick and poor.
		Monks and nuns spent most of their time praying meditating, and doing tasks like preparing medicine, or sewing,teaching, writing, and reading.
		Monks became fugitives - escapees - and some were only concerned to save their lives, their few possessions, and their sacred relics.
	www.kyrene.k12.az.us /schools/brisas/sunda/ma/1lisa.htm (1002 words)

	Cistercians Summary
		The Cistercians are an order of monks and nuns that arose in the twelfth century to foster the integral observance of the rule of Benedict of Nursia (d.
		Farming operations on so extensive a scale could not be carried out by the monks alone, whose choir and religious duties took up a considerable portion of their time; and so from the beginning the system of lay brothers was introduced on a large scale.
		By the end of the 12th century the Cistercian houses numbered 500; in the 13th a hundred more were added; and in the 15th, when the order attained its greatest extension, there were close on 750 houses: the larger figures sometimes given are now recognized as apocryphal.
	www.bookrags.com /Cistercians (2822 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Cistercians
		Cistercians were severely ascetic, rejected feudal revenues, and engaged in manual labor.
		The monks are now divided into two observances, the strict observance, whose adherents are known popularly as Trappists, and the common...
		The town, a fruit processing and textile center, became a center of the Cistercians in the reign of Alfonso I, and its abbey (building begun 1152) was the greatest of medieval Portugal.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Cistercians (804 words)

	Monk CSTs in English
		Cistercian monks seek God and follow Christ under a rule and an abbot in a stable community that is a school of brotherly love.
		The monks are to foster good relations with their local church and its bishop, to whom they render devoted submission and respect.
		The consent of the chapter is not required, however, in the case of a monk who had changed his stability to a foundation when this became autonomous and later returns to the monastery of his previous profession.
	www.ocso.org /HTM/cst-stat/cc-m-en.htm (14000 words)

	The Participation of Lay Faithful in the Cistercian Family
		The 1996 General Chapter of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance had mentioned in a vote that they should be involved in that celebration, and they were even mentioned in the letter that the Pope wrote to the Cistercian Family on that occasion.
		The early Cistercian communities, like all the monastic communities of the time, had a "familia", that is a small group of hired workers, distinct from the lay brothers, who were integrated into the community life.
		Therefore, the Cistercian vocation is never the vocation to a so-called "Cistercian spirit" it is the vocation to a local community or to the Cistercian spirit as it is embodied in the life of a local community.
	www.users.skynet.be /scourmont/Armand/wri/cist_laity-eng.html (1748 words)

	monks
		The monks of Rievaulx came close to annexing Kirkham abbey (Augustinian) and its lands in return for which they would build a new abbey for any monks of Kirkham who did not wish to adopt the Cistercian rule, but in the end the idea was abandoned.
		Although it may seem odd that monks needed a lot of defence, they could often be quite savage to one another, and in 1146 the supporters of one particular Archbishop came to Fountains, intent on murdering the abbot.
		The Cistercian charter specified that at the settling of a new monastic site, the abbot would be accompanied by at least twelve monks, and that prior to their arrival, certain key buildings would have been erected.
	freespace.virgin.net /philip_j_e.smith/menew/monks.htm (3828 words)

	Who we are / Come and join us
		The primary role of Cistercian life is to seek union with God and to witness to His holiness and His desire for the salvation and sanctification of all persons and to unite all peoples in their adherence to Him through their faith in Christ and his Catholic Church.
		Cistercian monasticism is a form of Benedictine monastic life, being based on the Rule of St. Benedict as interpreted by the twelfth century monks at Citeaux, France.
		Cistercian monasteries are located in solitary places in the country for the sake of living more quiet and hidden lives in simplicity.
	www.ourladyofnewhelfta.com /OLP/history.php (812 words)

	Cis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cistercians are members of a Roman Catholic Religious Order founded in 1098 by St. Robert, abbot of Molesme.
		From the beginning, the Cistercians stressed a literal observance of the Rule of St. Benedict, withdrawal from feudal entanglements and responsibility, and a return to the simplicity and austerity of the early desert monks.
		The lay brothers encouraged the monks to extend their estates beyond what was necessary for monastic self-sufficiency.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /westcivi/cis.htm (610 words)

	Virtual Tour and Brief History of Fountains Abbey
		Cistercians made very creative use of water power from the rivers on which they settled, and became the leaders of a wave of technological development in the Central Middle Ages.
		The lay brothers were also able to manage fields and herds at a great distance from the abbey, which the monks themselves were unable to work because of the prohibition against traveling further from the monastery than one could return in a day in the Rule of Benedict.
		The presence of these Cistercian monks reworked the English economy, and inspired in the medieval period a renewed love of God through their life of work, study, and prayer.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/fa2/foun2.html (1034 words)

	Cistercian Monks, Abbots and Abbeys in the Languedoc and Medieval France
		Cistercians represented a compromise between the Benedictine system, in which each abbey was autonomous and isolated, and the Cluniac system which was completely centralised with the abbot of Cluny the only superior in the whole organisation.
		Cistercian architecture is largely attributed to Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (St Bernard).
		Cistercian churches were often constructed away from centres of population, often in remote valleys near streams.
	www.languedoc-france.info /120502_cistercians.htm (2299 words)

	Gloss1en
		The abbot of the French abbey La Trappe de Bonnecombe, received, by way of the monks at Oka, Quebec, the news that the pastor of Rogersville, New Brunswick, was eager to welcome French Cistercians.
		Cistercians are monks and nuns of monasteries originating from Cîteaux.
		It is Cistercian practice to sing the Salve Regina as the final prayer of compline.
	www.abbayeoka.com /english/gloss1en.htm (1750 words)

	Tarrawarra Abbey
		The monastery of Cîteaux (to which the word “Cistercian” owes its origin) was founded in 1098 as an adventure in reform, aiming to establish a life that was faithful to its ancient origins and yet, simultaneously, deeply attuned to the aspirations of its own time.
		Cistercian life is not high-pressured; it aims for a wholesome balance between physical and spiritual, solitary and communal, discipline and freedom.
		Cistercian spirituality is both a school of self-knowledge and a school of love — by fostering the restoration of God’s image in the monk and in the monastic community we hope to establish heaven on earth: the “cloistral paradise” of which medieval monks like St Bernard of Clairvaux wrote so eloquently.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~tarabbey/Cistercian_Life.html (390 words)

	The old and new survey of Clare Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Cistercian monks were attracted to the remoteness of Ireland.
		Cistercian monks travelled from Boyle Abbey, Roscommon, to serve the new abbey.
		In 1539 Henry VIII enforced the dissolution of the monasteries in the Pale and Ireland.
	www.anu.ie /clareisland/Heritage/cisterc.htm (782 words)

	Insight Page on the Cistercian Order (one)
		It was a six page constitution which inter alia laid out the relationship between the Cistercian houses and their abbots, set out the obligations and duties inherent in these, and ensured the accountability of all the abbots and houses to the underlying themes of charity and living according to the rule of Benedict.
		Whilst nowadays one looks at Cistercian abbey sites with admiration for their natural beauty and proximity to water, it's worth remembering that when they were first colonised by the white monks they were mostly dank cold unwanted tracts of poor quality forest or undrained marshes.
		This concept of the physical segregation of choir monks was widespread across all monastic orders in the Middle Ages, and its physical manifestations such as screened off choirs still exist in many of the European cathedrals which began their lives as monastic foundations.
	www.paradoxplace.com /Insights/Cistercians/Cistercians.htm (1573 words)

	The Cistercians and Trappists
		Although many fl monk institutions of the time were corrupt, such as the monastery of Farfa in Italy, the monks of Molesme were known for their pious lives and for their observance of the Benedictine Rule.
		All Cistercians were to obey the Rule in a uniform manner in order that "an indissoluble unity may be forever maintained between abbeys." To ensure that these ideals were followed, the Carta Caritatis stipulated that each house was subject to a regular visitation by the abbot of its parent house.
		Cistercian Martyrs of the Eucharist, Abbey of the Genesee, Trappist Monks
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/medieval/cist.html (1875 words)

	Scottish Cistercian Trail
		Farm labourers and craftsmen employed by the monks received bread, fish, ale and meat daily from the abbey and were looked after when they were ill. Peace and contentment was the keynote around the abbey in an age of strife and turmoil.
		In many cases the monk and the lay brother were skilled in the art of medicine, and the physic garden was common to the great abbeys of Scotland-here we are speaking generally without prejudice to the raison d'etre of Citeaux.
		The nuns' row of houses was an overflow from the Cistercian convent at Haddington, and in times of danger often a place of refuge for the nuns, particularly during the destruction of Haddington by Edward III in 1356.
	liamdevlin.tripod.com /nunraw/cistrail.htm (5366 words)

	Tintern Abbey, Wales
		The Cistercian form of western monasticism was born as a reaction against the prosperity and lack of discipline that characterized many medieval monasteries.
		At first, the monks probably lived and worshipped in a temporary arrangement of wooden buildings, though within a few decades of their arrival they had erected a modest stone church and associated cloister ranges.
		It was consecrated in 1301 in the presence of the patron, Roger Bigod, fifth earl of Norfolk.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /wales/tintern-abbey.htm (1413 words)

	The Cistercian Influence
		In both their work and their prayer, the monks’ focus is not on themselves but on the praise of God.
		The first monk was Anthony of the desert who lived alone in the deserts of Egypt about the year 250.
		The monks of the abbey continue the Cistercian tradition by dedicating themselves to the worship of God, by the singing of the Divine Office, personal prayer, Lectio Divina (reading/study) and manual labour, while living in community.
	homepage.eircom.net /~vigils/cist/cist.htm (676 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cistercians
		Cistercian Areopagus", says the author of the "Origines Cistercienses", "with equal severity and justice kept watch over the observance of the Rule of St. Benedict, the Charter of Charity and definitions of the preceding Chapters." The collection of statutes published by Dom Martene informs us that there was no distinction of persons made.
		Cistercians of the seventeenth century, whose mitigation was approved by Alexander VII in 1666.
		Cistercian Congregation of Austria and Hungary was formed in 1859 by the monasteries of Austria which had escaped from the Revolution and submitted to the President General of the Order of Cîteaux.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03780c.htm (10223 words)

	DOT-COM MONKS La Crosse Tribune - Find Articles
		It also helps that monks are involved, he said, because people are intrigued by the idea of monks running a dot-com business.
		Cistercian monks have a centuries' old history of supporting themselves and their good works through commercial enterprises, McCoy said.
		The monks have about five members, including an elderly abbot who for health reasons lives in a Sparta nursing home and a young monk who is studying in Connecticut.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3652/is_200402/ai_n9362885 (928 words)

	Houses of Cistercian monks: Abbey of Beaulieu \| British History Online
		The abbot of Beaulieu was the fourth of the envoys sent by John to Pope Innocent in September, 1215; and in that capacity, as one of the king's proctors, he exhibited articles against the Archbishop of Canterbury at the fourth Lateran Council.
		The king's generosity to the Cistercians of Beaulieu continued year by year; it would be tedious to reiterate the specific benefactions.
		Isabel of Gloucester, the wife of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, died on 17 January, 1239; and was buried before the high altar of the new church of Beaulieu, her heart being sent to Tewkesbury.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=38100 (3779 words)

	BBC Inside Out - Monastery
		The monks' strict daily routine is marked by the two bells in the tower which sound to tell the monastic community when to eat, sleep, work and pray.
		The monks try to be self-sufficient, running their own 200 acre dairy farm with 90 cows, and producing most of their own eggs, fruit and vegetables.
		For the monks being interred, this is not the end of their lives, but the beginning of a new spiritual journey that extends into the after life.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/eastmidlands/series7/monastery.shtml (1930 words)

	Cistercian life > The cistercians > Order
		The Cistercian Order was the most important of the new religious orders which developed in western Europe in the late eleventh century in response to movements for reform in the Church.
		The Cistercian way of life placed great stress on solitude and isolation; Cistercian monasteries were thus often founded far away from towns and villages.
		Rules were agreed to govern the internal affairs of each monastery and the Cistercian Order as a whole was regulated by statutes produced at Cîteaux in Burgundy, the mother-house of the Order.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /cistercian_life/the_cistercians/order/index.php (208 words)

	Abbaye Cistercienne Notre Dame De Sénanque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The monks' dormitory is the first room you enter, on the left as you go up the stairs.
		The monks sat in the choir stalls and lay brothers in the section where the benches are to be found in today's church.
		The Cistercian monks, united by simplicity and the observation of Saint Benedict's Rule (6th Century) found their strength through a life of prayer and work in their abbeys.
	www.senanque.fr /visita.htm (1367 words)

	The White Monks
		The white-robed Cistercians were commonly known for centuries as the White Monks to distinguish them from the largest Benedictine Congregation, the fl-robed Cluniacs or Black Monks.
		The Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of Spring Bank, located at Okauchee, Wisconsin, sponsored publication of this volume as a contribution to the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the guiding genius of the Cistercians and, indeed, of the whole of Christianity during the 12th century.
		Father Louis J. Lekai, author of this history of the White Monks, is himself a Cistercian, a member of the Order’s young community in Buffalo, N.Y. Father Lekai received his professional training as a historian at the University of Budapest, Hungary, acquiring his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that institution in 1942.
	www.monksonline.org /whitemonks.html (391 words)

	Houses of Cistercian monks: Fountains \| British History Online
		But, notwithstanding all these riches lavished upon the abbey, there was still need for economy and care, and towards the end of the 13th century the monks were found to be in great poverty, This was partly due to the great expenses that had been incurred in the costly building, (fn.
		In their financial troubles the convent, it seems, had gone for relief to the Jews, and in 1274 we find Philip de Wylgheby appointed abbey custodian because the house was in debt to the king, by reason of a loan in the king's Jewry, and also owing money to divers creditors.
		On the death of Abbot Robert Burley, in 1410, Roger Frank, one of the monks, was appointed on 30 July as his successor.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36236 (2626 words)

	Cloisters - Abbey Notre-Dame de Senanque - France - Travels to Cloisters - Glenn & Karen Marcus
		The abbey of Notre-Dame de Senanque was founded as a Cistercian monk community, that came from the Abbey of Mazan in the Vivarese area in 1148.
		The Cistercian monks were united by simplicity and the observation of Saint Benedict's Rule (6th Century).
		Originally up to 30 monks lived and slept at the Abbaye - fully clothed it was noted, and that is different that the origins of Abbaye Fontevraud.
	www.marcuslink.com /travel/cloisters/FR-senanque.htm (319 words)

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