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David Knowles. We have seen the gradual decline in austerity and in some of the original characteristics of the Cistercian ... austere congregations , which threatened the essential unity of the whole body . The Reformation eliminated the ...
David Knowles. We have seen the gradual decline in austerity and in some of the original characteristics of the Cistercian ... austere congregations , which threatened the essential unity of the whole body . The Reformation eliminated the ...
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... austere regime ( originally that of the Trappists ) with an apostolic zeal . It ran into difficulties on account of ... austerity . In spite of this , indeed perhaps precisely because of its appeal to two ideals of the nineteenth century ...
... austere regime ( originally that of the Trappists ) with an apostolic zeal . It ran into difficulties on account of ... austerity . In spite of this , indeed perhaps precisely because of its appeal to two ideals of the nineteenth century ...
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... austere life , with physical work as an element , but with allowances also for study and learning . Second , there is the less austere Benedictine regime with a mixture of literary work of all kinds together with a certain admixture of ...
... austere life , with physical work as an element , but with allowances also for study and learning . Second , there is the less austere Benedictine regime with a mixture of literary work of all kinds together with a certain admixture of ...
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