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Meanings of Benedictine order in English
A Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities.
Usage of Benedictine order in English
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We have no existing examples of the earlier monasteries of the Benedictine order.
2
My granddaughter has taken that of Sister Bathilde; she is of the Benedictine order.
3
The regular clergy, or monks, during the early Middle Ages belonged to the Benedictine order.
4
Benedict founded the Benedictine order in Subiaco, near Rome.
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The Benedictine order first established a community of Irish nuns in Ypres in the 17th century.
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The monastery was of the Benedictine order.
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Saint Benedict founded Monte Cassino in 529, but centuries elapsed before the Benedictine order rose to power.
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He became a monk of the Benedictine order, and was educated at the abbey of Cluny in France.
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And, of all kinds of help-bringers, we owe much to the monks, and chiefly the great Benedictine order.
10
The Benedictine order had been introduced into England in 596, and forty-five monasteries had been founded before that of St. Alban's.
11
On the other side of the river there was the priory of the Holy Trinity, the home of an alien Benedictine order.
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The Benedictine order has flourished for nearly 1,500 years, and should be a sustaining presence for years to come.
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William sat in the abbot's chair; on his right band Lanfranc himself-forthe Benedictine order was deeply interested in the investigation about to be made.
14
Ganganelli (Clement XIV) and the Reverend Doctor Arthur O'Leary are distinguished among the Franciscans; and many great men have been produced in the Benedictine order.
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The work of S. Romuald was a reform of the Benedictine Order.
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That economic phenomenon has at its roots the action of the Benedictine Order.