Benedictines in a sentence

When the Benedictines arrived in 1920, the area had benefited from Henry’s financial investment; but it had also suffered the consequences of a century of famine, emigration, political unrest and poverty.

The Romans prized the wine during their days there, but it was Cistercians, a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns who branched off from the Benedictines, who began to really explore, and perfect, pinot noir in the Middle Ages.

The Benedictines took it over in 1863.

Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.

Baluze (1693), I, p. 845. This would indicate that the two successful candidates were both Benedictines.

Foremost were the Benedictines whose great abbey churches vastly outnumbered any others in France and England.

He died at the base of the main altar 10 July 1086, where he was buried by the Benedictines.

He protested his profound esteem for the Benedictines of Cluny whom he declared he loved equally as well as the other religious orders.

He returned to London in 1924, but in 1925 often visited Gill at Capel-y-ffin and the Benedictines at Caldey Island, and in the same year did illustrations for Gulliver's Travels for the Golden Cockerel Press.

In later centuries, intellectual work and teaching took the place of farming, crafts, or other forms of manual labour for many if not most Benedictines.

In such times, dynamic Benedictines have often led reform movements to return to a stricter observance of both the letter and spirit of the Rule of St Benedict, at least as they understood it.

In the twelfth century, greater use gradually began to be made of Dionysius among various traditions of thought: * Among Benedictines (especially at the Abbey of Saint-Denis), greater interest began to be shown in Dionysius.

Reforms During the more than 1500 years of their existence, the Benedictines have not been immune to periods of laxity and decline, often following periods of greater prosperity and an attendant relaxing of discipline.

Rejecting the developments the Benedictines had undergone, the monks tried to replicate monastic life exactly as it had been in Saint Benedict's time; indeed in various points they went beyond it in austerity.

The monks studied the healing properties of plants and minerals to alleviate the sufferings of the sick. citation Germany was evangelized by English Benedictines.

The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order.

While Francis of Assisi humbly used uncoloured and un-bleached wool for his robes, the capuchins coloured their vestments to differ from Franciscans, Benedictines, Augustinians and other orders.