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  2. Christian monasticism - Wikipedia

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    But other principles of division seem to have been employed, e.g., there was a house for the Greeks. On Saturdays and Sundays, all the monks assembled in the church for Mass; on other days the Office and other spiritual exercises were celebrated in the houses. [16]

  3. List of monasteries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Monastery and Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, a Roman Catholic monastery in Union City that closed in 1980. Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Union City. Newark Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Newark. St. Paul's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located near Newton.

  4. List of abbeys and priories - Wikipedia

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    Lluc Sanctuary, Majorca; Monasterio de Piedra, Zaragoza Province; Nuestra Señora de Rueda Monastery, Zaragoza Province; San Salvador of Leyre Abbey, Navarre; Santa María de El Paular Monastery, Madrid Province

  5. Monastery - Wikipedia

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    A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ().A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and ...

  6. Benedictines - Wikipedia

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    Monks would read privately during their personal time, as well as publicly during services and at mealtimes. In addition to these three mentioned in the Rule, monks would also read in the infirmary. Monasteries were thriving centers of education, with monks and nuns actively encouraged to learn and pray according to the Benedictine Rule. Rule ...

  7. Trappists - Wikipedia

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    Augustin de Lestrange, a monk of La Trappe at that time, led a number of monks to establish a new monastery in the ruined and unroofed former Carthusian charterhouse of Val-Sainte in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, where the monks subsequently carried out an even more austere reform practising the ancient observances of Benedict of Nursia ...

  8. Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville - Wikipedia

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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: Diocese: Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud: Controlled churches: 19 total Monastic Residence points outside of the Abbey, and 16 of them being Benedictine- run Parishes: People; Founder(s) Fr. Bruno Riss, O.S.B., Fr. Cornelius Wittmann, O.S.B., and the founding German Benedictines. Abbot

  9. Carthusians - Wikipedia

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    The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians (Latin: Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its own rule, called the Statutes, and their life combines both eremitical and cenobitic monasticism.