Cistercian

or White Monk or Bernardine

Member of a Roman Catholic monastic order founded by St. Stephen Harding (1098) at Cîteaux (Latin, Cistercium), Burgundy, by Benedictines dissatisfied with their abbey's laxity. Cistercians were severely ascetic, rejected feudal revenues, and engaged in manual labor. Uniform rules applied to all houses, and all abbots were to meet annually at Cîteaux. St. Bernard de Clairvaux founded 68 abbeys in his lifetime. Discipline declined as the order grew, and Cistercians disappeared from northern Europe after the Reformation. The order underwent reforms in the 16th–17th century; members of the reformed order are popularly known as Trappists after the abbey of La Trapp. Until the 1960s, they slept, ate, and worked in perpetual silence. The original order, which underwent more moderate reforms, also survives.

Cistercian

a. a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule

b. (as modifier): a Cistercian monk

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It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

He was obviously an ecclesiastic of high rank; his dress was that of a Cistercian Monk, but composed of materials much finer than those which the rule of that order admitted.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

They had rambled round by a road which led to the well-known ruins of the Cistercian abbey behind the mill, the latter having, in centuries past, been attached to the monastic establishment.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

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