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CarthusianMember of a Roman Catholic monastic order founded by St. Bruno of Cologne (c. 1030–1101) in 1084 in the Chartreuse valley of southeastern France. Members of the Order of Carthusians pray, study, eat, and sleep alone but gather in church for morning mass, vespers, and the night office. They dine together on Sundays and major holidays and walk together once a week. They wear hair shirts, abstain from eating meat, and consume only bread and water on Fridays and fast days. At the motherhouse, or Grande Chartreuse (today in Voiron, Isère), the monks distill the liqueur that bears the house's name. Carthusian nuns are also strictly cloistered and contemplative. Carthusian RC Church a. a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France b. (as modifier): a Carthusian monastery How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Brunfels belonged to the austere Carthusian order, whose acolytes took vows of silence and solitude. Merton's dissatisfaction tempted him to leave the Trappists for the obscure hermit life of the Carthusian Order. |
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