CISTERCIANS. The Cistercians are an order of monks and nuns that arose in the twelfth century to foster the integral observance of the rule of Benedict of Nursia (d. 525). The order takes its name from the first community to adopt the reform, the Abbey...

. Within fifteen years of Cîteaux’s foundation by Robert of Molesme in 1098, the monastery began to found daughter houses, as more monks came to join the New Monastery than could be accommodated there. Between 1113 and 1115, the “four...

The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Latin: Cistercienses), sometimes called the White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which a black scapular or apron is sometimes worn) is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monks. The first Cistercian...

The Cistercian Abbeys of Tipperary. By Colmcille 65 Conbhuidhe, OCSO. Edited by Finbarr Donovan. (Dublin: Four Courts Press; Portland, Oregon: ISBS. 1999. Po. 335. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 oa Irish Cistercian historiography is alive and well. Asplin's bibliography Medieval Ireland (Royal Irish Academy 1971),...

Cistercian Nuns and Their World. Edited by Meredith Parsons Lillich. [Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, 6. ] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2005. Pp. xii, 366. $49.95.) This is the first book to be devoted to a broader study of the arts of...

Charles Plumier (1646 – 1704), was a famous Franciscan monk, vegetarian and botanist, who over the course of his lifetime created 31 manuscripts which documented over 4,300 plants, and 1,200 animals including birds, fish, crabs and mussels. Noted discoveries include the Begonia, Fuchsia, Lobelia, Magnolia,...