Word: cistercian
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There 80-odd scholarly Europeans and Americans had a marvelous time. For Mount Holyoke, long a home of ultra-serious-minded education, was trying earnestly to take the place of Burgundy's 12th-Century Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until 1939 a sort of Chautauqua for Europe's top-drawer intellectuals...
...That the best retreat, now that the Continent is cut off from Britain, is the Abbey of the Cistercian monks in Leicester...
...days Leslie Hore-Belisha, who used to take his holidays on the Riviera, immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
...winters ago a needy wayfarer sought and received refuge at the Cistercian Monastery. He was William Devro, a steam-shovel operator from Providence. Devro did odd jobs for the monks, proved useful when it became necessary to enlarge the monastery's reservoir. At a small weekly stipend Devro was put in the cab of a steam crane, under the guidance of the community's civil engineer, Brother Hugh. One day a cable on the crane tore loose, struck Devro in the eye. The monks treated him in their infirmary, then sent him to a Providence hospital. He lost...
...tree-clad ridge near Cumberland, R. I. lies a cluster of austere grey Gothic buildings, laid up in stone during the past 35 years by white-robed members of the Order of Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance. The 62 men of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain...