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  2. List of Cistercian monasteries - Wikipedia

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    The Cistercians are a Catholic religious order of enclosed monks and nuns formed in 1098, originating from Cîteaux Abbey. Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but many were closed during the Protestant Reformation , the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII , the French Revolution , and the ...

  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. Christian monasticism - Wikipedia

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    Both ways of living out the Christian life are regulated by the respective church law of those Christian denominations that recognize it (e.g., the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, or the Lutheran Church). Christian monastic life does not always involve communal living with like-minded Christians.

  5. 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

  6. Trappists - Wikipedia

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    The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Latin: Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, [1] are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched off from the Cistercians.

  7. 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

  8. 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 ...

  9. English Benedictine Congregation - Wikipedia

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    As more rampant persecution emerged in reprisal to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and fearing the congregation would die with him the last of the Westminster monks professed under Abbot Feckenham, the aged Dom Sigebert Buckley O.S.B, "aggregated" Doms Robert Sadler and Edward Mayhew O.S.B, two English monks, priests, and missionaries of the Abbey of ...