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coenobite
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coenobite, cenobite
a member of a religious order following a communal rule of life


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Later apologists for cenobitic living also recognized a parallel between the polis and the monastic community.
In the context of cenobitic monasticism, the classic work on spiritual direction is St.
It is in this age, from the late eleventh century on, that we get not only the vast network of Cluniac houses, Cistercian reforms, and attempts to combine the eremetic and cenobitic life (for example, the Camaldolese and the Carthusians), but also dual monastic houses of men and women, as well as various other religious orders which had their moment in history.
 
 
 
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