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David Knowles. Foreword 7 The monastic life in its Christian form , though unfamiliar to many in the modern world , has existed almost as long as Christianity itself , and there are many ways in which it might be presented . Here the way ...
David Knowles. Foreword 7 The monastic life in its Christian form , though unfamiliar to many in the modern world , has existed almost as long as Christianity itself , and there are many ways in which it might be presented . Here the way ...
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... became independent under political duress , and adopted with a more exactly historical purity the Charter of Charity and early statutes . Dom Lestrange , after thirty The Cistercians and Carthusians in the modern world.
... became independent under political duress , and adopted with a more exactly historical purity the Charter of Charity and early statutes . Dom Lestrange , after thirty The Cistercians and Carthusians in the modern world.
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... modern world there are more successful aspirants from the ranks of the secular clergy than from monastic homes . The image of the Charterhouse , never refaced because never defaced , remains the same as ever in the modern world , where ...
... modern world there are more successful aspirants from the ranks of the secular clergy than from monastic homes . The image of the Charterhouse , never refaced because never defaced , remains the same as ever in the modern world , where ...
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