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Cîteaux
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Oltre Cîteaux: Gioacchino da Fiore e l'Ordine florense
; Oltre Cteaux: Gioacchino da Fiore e l'Ordine florense. By Valeria De Fraja. [Centre Internazionale di Studi Gioachimiti S. Giovanni in Fiore: Opere di Gioacchino da Fiore,Testi e strumenti, 19Rome:Viella. 2006. Pp. 301, 2 color plates. euro30.00 paperback.) The Transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-13 is
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Cistercians
...religious order founded (1098) by St. Robert, abbot of Molesme, in Cîteaux [ Cistercium ], Côte-d'Or dept., France. They reacted against...development of Port-Royal . Famous Cistercian abbeys include Cîteaux, Clairvaux, Fountains, Rievaulx, and Alcobaa. Bibliography...
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
...1090?-1153, French churchman, mystic, Doctor of the Church. Born of noble family, in 1112 he entered the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux, taking along 4 or 5 brothers and some 25 friends. In 1115 he headed the group sent to found a house at Clairvaux. There he...
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Alain de Lille
...by his contemporaries as the Universal Doctor. He was born in Lille; he taught at Paris and Montpellier before retiring to Cîteaux. Alain attempted to give rational support to the tenets of Christian faith in his writings. He held that the mind unaided by...
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Saint Stephen Harding
...the Molesme abbey (near Châtillon-sur-Seine) in Burgundy. In 1098 he joined his abbot, St. Robert (d. 1111), in founding at Cîteaux a new abbey, where the Rule of St. Benedict might be observed in primitive rigor. Stephen was abbot there from c.1109 and from...
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Trappists
...of monasticism and expanded greatly. There are 12 abbeys in the United States. The head of the order, the abbot general of Cîteaux, lives in Rome. Bibliography: See T. Merton, The Silent Life (1957); L. J. Lekai, The Rise of the Cistercian Strict Observance...
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