(a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
(n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this study was to determine whether the austerely living Trappist and Benedictine monks have a lower prevalence of a number of risk factors and health problems than the general Dutch population.
(2) But he also said that "in every Benedictine there should be a disappointed Carthusian".
(3) The Benedictines were there long before the 16th-century Reformation, before even the schism of 1054 that divided the eastern and western church.
(4) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
(5) The Pope liked Benedictines and told Hume, when he demurred at the appointment, that he was asking him to accept "the call of the Lord."
(6) By choosing Benedict, the previous pope signalled continuity with Benedict XV, who steered the Vatican through the first world war, and also with the original Saint Benedict who founded the Benedictine monastic order and is considered a pioneer of European education.
(7) This apparently "narrow" Benedictine tradition linked him to a wider world.
(8) It has not hurt that Welby's personal spiritual director is a Benedictine monk; nor that the archbishop recently signalled a further rapprochement by inviting members of a Roman Catholic ecumenical community to take up residence in Lambeth Palace .
(9) "I think she must have been insane," says Sharp of Hildegard, a Benedictine nun who was one of the most important names on the medieval music scene.
(10) The next full public hearing is expected to relate to the Rochdale investigation in October, followed by an examination of the English Benedictine Congregation, part of the Catholic investigation, in December.
(11) With his tribal entourage of family and animals, apprentices, dependents, who included the painter David Jones, he settled in the ruined Benedictine monastery at Capel-y-ffin in the Black Mountains of Wales.
(12) Mary O'Hara , the Irish nun, left her convent after 12 years as a Benedictine to become a famous harpist making records and appearing to packed audiences on sell-out tours across Europe and America.
(13) The chemical composition and metabolism of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) in a population of Benedictine nuns were studied after 5-month periods during which the predominant dietary fats were sunflower oil, fluid of palm, peanut oil, milk fats, low erucic acid rapeseed (LEAR) oil, corn oil, olive oil, soybean oil.
(14) Photograph: Landmark Trust Built on a fresh water spring in 409, San Fruttuoso has been home to Benedictine monks, Barbary pirates and – at the start of the last century – fishermen, who stored anchovies in its cool corners and built what looks like a pizza oven into one wall.
(15) I was educated by the Benedictines, and he was educated by the Jesuits, which has certain implications."
(16) Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster since February, 1976, who has died aged 76, was the first Benedictine monk to hold this post since the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in 1850.
(17) The fact his spiritual director is a Catholic Benedictine is probably a good sign of how he sees the churches working together: locally, spiritually and personally, not as organisations.
(18) Trials have also taken place in other countries, notably Belgium, where those convicted included two Benedictine nuns who helped killed Tutsis sheltering at their convent.
(19) I like the fact that he began at HTB but topped this up by exploring Benedictine spirituality and has a monk as his spiritual director.
(20) The facts in his fate: early death of the mother, sickness of the father, a congenital abnormity of one eye which demanded several operations, and, last not least, school-years passed in a college of Benedictine monchs, created the roots of his neurosis.
Cistercian
Definition:
(n.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(2) The grand prix prize – effectively the runner-up – went to Xavier Beauvois' Of Men and Gods, his surprisingly gripping dramatisation of a true story: the 1996 deaths of French Cistercian monks kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
(3) In the 14th century, the site was a grange, or satellite farm – the Vale of Glamorgan is famously rich farmland – attached to the Cistercian abbey in Neath.
(4) Wensleydale is the land of cheese and specifically French cheese, brought to us by Cistercian monks from Roquefort whose great abbey at Jervaulx is one of Yorkshire's most beautiful ruins.
(5) The present Dutch Reformed Church building in Aduard (near Groningen) is the only remnant of a large Cistercian monastery founded on June 5, 1192.
(6) The island is owned and run by Cistercian monks who produce – and sell – their own chocolate, ice-cream, shortbread, yoghurt and perfumes.
(7) Another strong contender premiered today was Xavier Beauvois's Of Men and Gods, which tells the true story of seven Cistercian monks kidnapped and murdered in Algeria in 1996.
(8) The area around the bog is also the suspected burial ground of Joe Lynskey, a former Irish Cistercian monk whom the IRA also accused of being a British agent in 1972.
(9) It now has a serious rival in Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men , based on a true-life case from 1996, in which seven French Cistercian monks from a monastery in Algeria were kidnapped and murdered.
(10) In a more touristy part of the country, Follina's fabulous Romanesque abbey would be crowded out with coach parties, but here you can wander round the 12th-century Cistercian church and cloisters relatively undisturbed, and then head back into the town centre for lunch at either the gourmet – and expensive – Relais dell'Abbazia, or a local favourite, Ristorante al Caminetto, where a hearty set lunch will only set you back €12.