1) Benedictines. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Benedictines, religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, following the rule of St. Benedict [Lat. abbr.,=O.S.B.]. The first Benedictine monastery was at Monte...
2) Benedictines (4 syl.). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Monks who follow the rule of St. Benedict, viz. implicit obedience, celibacy, abstaining from laughter, spare diet, poverty, the exercise of hospitality, and unremitting...
3) abbey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...abbey, monastic house, especially among Benedictines and Cistercians, consisting of not less than 12 monks or nuns ruled by an abbot or abbess. Many abbeys were originally...
4) Cluniac order. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Cluniac order, (kloo´ne-ak´) (KEY) , medieval organization of Benedictines centered at the abbey of Cluny, France. Founded in 910 by the monk Berno and Count William...
5) Cistercian. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A member of a contemplative monastic order founded by reformist Benedictines in France in 1098. French Cistertien, from Medieval Latin Cistercium, Citeaux, a village...
6) Dom. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...period to other Church dignitaries. It is now restricted to priests and choir monks among the Benedictines, and some few other monastic orders, as Dom Mabillon, Dom...
7) Cistercians. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...stems from the abbacy (c.1109-1134) of St. Stephen Harding. The black habit of the Benedictines was changed to unbleached white and the Cistercians became known as...
8) Furness. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Furness Abbey (now in ruins), near Barrow, was a wealthy institution founded by the Benedictines in 1127....
9) Monte Cassino. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Christian learning and piety; its influence on European civilization is immeasurable (see Benedictines). Its greatest abbot after St. Benedict was Desiderius (later...
10) Igna'tius (St.). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...1 Brother Ignatius. The Rev. James Leycester Lyne, for some time head of the English Benedictines at the Norwich Protestant monastery. Now at Llanthony. 2 Father...
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