376. 
Bigotry, of monks, 394. 
Biography, monastic history centers
  in, 84. 
Bjoernstrom, on the stigmata, 223. 
Blaesilla, murmurs against monks
  at her funeral, 125. 
Blunt, on the:  fall of the monasteries,
  333. 
Boccaccio, comments on his visit
  to Monte Cassino, 136. 
Boleyn, Anne, and Henry VIII.,
  294. 
Bollandists, Catholic, on Dominic
  and the Inquisition, 238. 
Bonaventura, on the stigmata of
  Francis, 220; a Franciscan, 228;
  on vices of the monks, 337. 
Boniface, the apostle to the Germans,
  167. 
Bonner, Bishop, persuades Prior
  Houghton to sign oath of
  supremacy, 303. 
Brahminism, asceticism under, 19. 
Britain, Tertullian, Origen, and
  Bede, on Christianity in, 123;.
  relation of early church in, to
  Rome, 162; monasticism in,
  162, 168. 
Brotherhood of Penitence, 229. 
Bruno, the abbot of Cluny, 177. 
Bruno, founder of Carthusian order,
  188; Ruskin on the order, 189;
  the monastery of the Chartreuse, 189;
  his eulogy of solitude, 396. 
Bryant, poem of, on fall of monasteries, 353. 
Buddha, on the ascetic life, 357. 
Buddhism, asceticism under, 19. 
Burke, Edmund, quoted by Gasquet on fall of monasteries, 312. 
Burnet, on report of Royal Commissioners, 316. 
Bury, Father, on Chinese monks, 20.

C

Cambridge, University of, the friars at, 252, 405. 
Campeggio, Cardinal, the divorce proceedings of Henry VIII. and, 294. 
Capraria, Rutilius and Ambrose on island of, 126. 
Capuchins, 246. 
Carlyle, Thomas, on Mahomet, 33;
  quotes Jocelin on Abbot Samson’s election, 145;
  on the twelfth century, 157;
  on the monastic ideal, 174;
  on Jesuitical obedience, 271;
  views of, criticised, 278. 
Carmelites, 246. 
Carthusians, The, establishment of, 188;
  famous monastery of, 189;
  rules of, 189;
  in England, 191, 334.
  See Charterhouse. 
Cassiodorus, the literary labors of, 152. 
Casuistry, of the Jesuits, 272; 429. 
Catacombs, visited by Jerome, 87. 
Catharine, of Aragon, Henry’s divorce from, 293. 
Catholic, Roman, see Rome, Church of. 
Celibacy, praised by Jerome and Augustine, 112;
  views of Helvidius on, opposed by Jerome, 113;
  the struggle to establish sacerdotal, 183;
  Lingard on, 183;
  Lea on, 184;
  vow of, 380;
  and Scripture teaching, 381;
  early Fathers on, 381;
  a modern ecclesiastic’s reasons for, 381;
  how vow of, came to be imposed, 382;
  no special virtue in, 419. 
Cellani, Peter, Dominic retires to house of, 238;
Celtic Church, see Britain. 
Cenobites, meaning of term, 425;
  origin of, in the East, 57;
  habits of early, 58;
  aims of, 60. 
Chalcis, desert of, 87. 
Chaldea, asceticism in, 20.