Select Memoirs of Port Royal to Which Are Appended Tour to Alet Visit to Port
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Him- self and twenty-one of his monks being deeply con- vinced of the degeneracy of their order, resolved, 204 TOUR TO ALET. by divine grace, to dedicate their hearts wholly to God ; and literally to follow the rule of their con- vent, in the strictest observance of St. Bennet's code. Expelled on this account by their nonconforming brethren, they retired, with their abbot, to a wilder- ness called Clteaux {anciently Cisteaux, Lat. Cister- ciuni), on account of the aqueducts and reservoirs in it...s neighbourhood. This desert, which is about six- teen miles from Dijon, presented nothing but a vast forest, intermixed by dreary commons ; it was haunted by bears, foxes, and wolves, and infested by bands of assassins. Here the first monastery of the Cistertian order arose, under the auspices of Eudo, the first Duke of Burgundy. In the beginning they simply adhered to the rule of St. Bennet ; it was not till some years after, that St. Stephen, their then abbot — the friend, instructor, and spiritual father of the great St.
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