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| | St. Stephen Harding |
 | | From the Exordium of Citeaux: the Annals of that Order by Manriquez, the short ancient life of St. Stephen, published by Henriquez in his Fasciculus, printed at Brussels in 1624 and by Henschenius, Apr. 17, t. |
 | | From whence arises his just remark, how grievous the scandal and crime must be of those who, by their example and tepidity, first open a gap to the least habitual irregularity in a religious Order or house. |
 | | Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, after a reign of three years, becoming a monk at Cluni, resigned his principality to his brother Eudes, who was the founder of Citeaux, and who, charmed with the virtue of these monks, came to live in their neighbourhood, and lies buried in their church with several of his successors. |
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