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  1. May 15, 2024 · By Walter Sánchez Silva. ACI Prensa Staff, May 15, 2024 / 06:00 am. The Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross) in Austria is the oldest in the world, dating back almost 1,000 years, and...

  2. Date: 1098 - present. Related People: Isaac Of Stella. St. Stephen Harding. St. Robert of Molesme. Cistercian, member of a Roman Catholic monastic order that was founded in 1098 and named after the original establishment at Cîteaux (Latin: Cistercium), a locality in Burgundy, near Dijon, France.

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  3. Monks of Our Lady of Dallas. Today, the Cistercian Order is organized into fourteen congregations and two federations with over two-thousand-five-hundred men and women. Cistercian monasteries are spread across the globe in Europe, Africa, North and South America and Asia, with many of the fastest growing Cistercian communities belonging to the ...

  4. Dec 15, 2020 · The Cistercian sisters are working to raise $18 million for a 54,000-square-foot monastery, which will sit on 229 acres in rural Iowa County, southwest of Prarie du Sac. It will include a chapel ...

  5. Apr 15, 2016 · The story was written by a Cistercian monk from Germany, Caesarius of Heisterbach (1180-1240). It was clearly meant as a tale of warning for would-be pilgrims about the perils of mishandling relics or, obtaining them by nefarious means.

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    At the time, it was the 38th Cistercian monastery founded but, due to the dissolution down the centuries of the earlier 37 abbeys, it is today the oldest surviving Cistercian house in the world. [24] The first Cistercian house to be established in Britain, a monastery at Waverley Abbey, Surrey, was founded by William Gifford, Bishop of ...

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  8. Mar 28, 2018 · Introduction. Cistercian monasticism began when in 1098 twenty-one monks from the wealthy Burgundian monastery of Molesme undertook to create a new monastery in which they would live in voluntary poverty, “poor with the poor Christ,” and in literal adherence to the Rule of Saint Benedict. Over the next millennium, in their habits of undyed ...

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