What's the difference between cistercian and trappist?
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.
Trappist
Definition:
(n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to some members of Aberdeen ’s energy sector, a group with a code of silence that would trump any Trappist throng, the North Sea is a busted flush, a dead zone of drilled-out fields with a long-term future to match.
(2) 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.
(3) The most Trappist of Cameron's fairly Trappist entourage, the nickname "Steady Eddie" doesn't really do justice to Llewellyn's levels of keeping mum.
(4) Subjects were 22 healthy nuns in a Trappist convent with very regular activities.
(5) The only way of escaping our predicament is to renounce the world in the way that Trappist monks once did.
(6) Beer drinkers are opting for Trappist and abbey brews, ales and blonde beers, rather than mid-priced lagers, according to the latest market research by Euromonitor.
(7) We want to brew every single litre here ... right where it has been brewed for so many centuries, just as Trappist beer is brewed in the abbey or champagne is brewed in the Champagne area.” So he hired tunnelling experts from the oil and gas industry and Belgium’s top professor in malting and brewing.
(8) The speaker said he did not expect MPs to behave like "Trappist monks" and accepted that often "passions will be aroused" in the Commons.
(9) I didn't take a Trappist vow that said that I'm never going to say anything again," he said.
(10) Known formally as 2MASS J23062928-0502285, but helpfully dubbed Trappist-1, the star is not much larger than Jupiter and emits a fraction of the sun’s radiation.
(11) A nutrition assessment of 16 members of a community of lacto-ovo vegetarian Trappist monks was conducted in 1977.
(12) The influence of aging on serum LH and testosterone (T) pulse frequency and gonadotroph sensitivity to androgen and estrogen feedback was studied in young (less than 55 yr old) and elderly (greater than 65 yr) Trappist monks.
(13) The nutritional status of members of a lacto-ovo vegetarian Trappist community was studied.
(14) In the period 1963-1974, 82 monks and 48 nuns from five Dutch and Belgian Trappist monasteries each participated in two or more out of nine different trials designed to test the effect of 58 different fat-modified diets on serum cholesterol.
(15) As they put it, their stock runs the gamut: "from Scottish punks to Trappist monks."
(16) On almost every big issue of the last few weeks, Hopeless appears to have taken a Trappist vow of silence.
(17) The position of the ultracool dwarf star Trappist-1 is marked.
(18) Belgian astronomers found the planets using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (Trappist) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert.
(19) Soon he discovered a real talent for divorcing people (in those barbaric, fault-finding days before divorce reform), and for the arcane Chancery world in which time and talent is expended in deciding the validity of a will written on a duck egg, or the charitable status of a legacy to Trappist nuns.