The Cistercians officially the Order of Cistercians are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of ...
Cistercian, member of a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in 1098 and named after the original establishment at Citeaux (Latin: Cistercium), near Dijon, ...
The Cistercian Order finds its historical origin in Cîteaux, a French monastery founded in 1098 by a group of monks under the leadership of St. Robert of ...
Until the Revolution, the religious orders developed winegrowing practices. © BIVB / NARBEBURU S. Statue of a Cistercian monk. In the Middle Ages, Christianity ...
The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (also known as “Trappists”) is a Roman Catholic contemplative religious order, consisting of monasteries of ...
"A significant contribution to the study of the history of monasticism in the twelfth century."— EHR.
We belong to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. Disciples of Jesus Christ, we join countless men and women who throughout fifteen hundred years ...
In the 13th century, Cistercian wool industry called for the creation of an order of lay ...
The monastic orders of the Middle Ages developed from the desire to live a
Christian monks responded to a vocation. They accepted the challenge of total surrender to Christ through the abandonment of worldly goods ...