The Monks of the West From St Benedict to St Bernard volume 1
The Monks of the West From St Benedict to St Bernard volume 1
Charles Forbes Montalembert
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41, 42, &c. 400 ST. GREGORY THE GREAT. rator. He watched especially over the strict observance of monastic continence, to such an extent that monasteries of the two sexes were withdrawn to a distance from each other, and women were rigorously forbidden to enter, upon any pretext whatever, into communities of men. In the islands of the Italian coast, already peopled with monks, ^^'' and to which the inhabitants of Campania fleeing from the Barba- rians had found a refuge, he commanded the rector... of the pontifical patrimony to remove all the women. He was specially desirous to seek out and shut up those monks who had left their corrmunities in order to marry, and against whom the Council of Chalcedon had pronounced ex- communication.^^^ But even in appl^nng these austere laws, the tender charity and amiable cordiality which distinguished his character always reappeared. A patrician of the married Syracusc, named Venantius, a great friend of Greg- monk. Qj, y.^ became a monk like him ; but was afterwards disgusted with monastic life, and married.
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