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Trappists

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Trappists, popular name for an order of Roman Catholic monks, officially (since 1892) the Reformed Cistercians Cistercians (sĭstr`shənz), monks of a Roman Catholic religious order founded (1098) by St.
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 or Cistercians of the Stricter Observance. They perpetuate the reform begun at La Trappe, Orne dept., France, by Armand de Rancé Rancé, Armand Jean le Bouthillier de (ärmäN` zhäN lə b
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 (c.1660). The reformer's aim was to restore primitive Cistercian (hence also primitive Benedictine) life; actually the Trappists surpassed both St. Benedict and St. Bernard in austerity. The reform was acclaimed in the world, but many Cistercians resisted it. The whole order was affected, but some abbeys never accepted the reform as such. The life of Trappists is one of strict seclusion from the world. Working hours are devoted to common and private worship, labor (often manual), and study; there is no recreation, meat is eaten only by the sick, and silence is observed except under unusual circumstances, but not by vow. Lay brothers do much of the farming, a peculiarly Cistercian practice. In the 19th and 20th cent. the Trappists shared in the revival of monasticism monasticism (mənăs`tĭsĭzəm, mō–)
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 and expanded greatly. There are 12 abbeys in the United States. The head of the order, the abbot general of Cîteaux, lives in Rome.

Bibliography

See T. Merton, The Silent Life (1957); L. J. Lekai, The Rise of the Cistercian Strict Observance in Seventeenth Century France (1968).



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For 65 years, Hugh served his brother Trappists in every way possible: as a lowly novice and seminarian, as a priest and confessor, as a teacher and prior, as a retreat master, and as abbot of the community.
He also taught in Latin America and went on an extended retreat with the Trappists.
The American tradition abounds in examples: Jonathan Edwards in his "Images or Shadows of Divine Things"; Emerson as "transparent eyeball" open to reading the book of nature; the Shakers, whose "plain style" of household furnishings and implements has ironically become a gold mine for antique dealers; Merton's Trappists at Gethsemani, who work silently at everyday tasks.
 
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