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To: NYer; BlackElk; Salvation
Are these yours? Memory Eternal!
3 posted on 02/10/2004 2:32:54 PM PST by MarMema
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To: MarMema; american colleen; sinkspur; Lady In Blue; Salvation; CAtholic Family Association; ...
Are these yours?

Yes! These are the Trappists, who are known for their jams, jellies and baked goods.

In 1098 a small group of monks from the French Abbey of Molesme, seeking to live a life in stricter conformity to the Rule of St. Benedict, founded a monastery which they simply called Novum Monasterium (New Monastery). Located in a densely wooded area in Burgundy, conditions were harsh and prospects bleak, but in a phenomenal expansion that defies rational explanation this new order of monks, who were to become famous as the white monks and whose official name became Cistercian, laid claim to nearly 350 abbeys by 1150. A century later the total had grown to 647 abbeys stretching from Ireland and Scotland to Poland, and from northern Norway to Sicily, with well over 20,000 monks on the rolls. Over the years laxity in observance of the Rule crept in, and success in creating wealth led to autocratic exploitation. Later ravages brought about by the Protestant Reformation and national revolutions decimated the order and in the early l9th century it was hard pressed to stave off extinction. Because of the continuing specter of further persecution foundations were sent to the New World. Two such foundations were made in the United States, both of which could trace their origins to the Abbey of Our Lady of La Trappe in France, from which the name Trappist is derived. La Trappe was the site of a 17th-century reform movement through which much of the order came to live under a more strictly penitential interpretation of St. Benedict's Rule.


Our Lady of La Trappe Abbey

4 posted on 02/10/2004 3:07:12 PM PST by NYer (Ad Jesum per Mariam)
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