XXIX. THE CISTERCIANS REFORM THE CLUNIAC REFORMERS
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Comment Blog
Pope Innocent IV: “Peregrinantes propter Christum”
Raymond Lull (Majorca)
Christian theosophy
Miramar, Majorca: College of the Holy Trinity
“Lullists” in Barcelona, Valencia
Chalons
Pope Urban II & Brother Alberc
“chapter of faults,” “Visitor”
Citeaux, La Ferté, Pontigny, Clairvaux, Morimand
Institute Capituli Generalis
Templars, Knights of Calatrava, of St. Lazarus, of Alcantara, of Avis, of St. Maurice, of the Wing of Saint Michael, of Montessa
1152 1200 1300 1400 1500
350 525 694 712 742
“conversi”
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
“There are plenty of virtuous monks, but too few virtuous dukes. Stay where you are.”
Carthusians of St. Bruno (La Grande Chartreuse)
Burgundy: Louis Jadot: Clos Vougeot
Kloster Eberbach am Rhein
“Perhaps their chief social value in the early Middle Ages lay in their availability as refuges for the gentle, the thoughtful, and the scholarly men and women for whom there was little place in the turbulent world.”
“By purely materialistic standards the monasteries undoubtedly represented a prodigious waste of productive resources; but the Middle Ages was not a materialistic era.”
-- Brian Tierney