The Monks of the West From St Benedict to St Bernard volume 4
The Monks of the West From St Benedict to St Bernard volume 4
Charles Forbes Montalembert
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—See Lappenbekg, Genealogical Table E at the end of his first volume. 1 88 CONTEMPORARIES AND SUCCESSORS tage, and preferred an uncultivated estate, situated on a little river not far from the Northern Sea, ^ where he founded the great monastery of Icanhoe, which has since grown into a town, and has borrowed its modern name, Boston, from that of its founder (Botulph's toivn)} Botolph's chief aim was to build and regulate his monastery on the model of the communities where he had lived, or which... he had visited on the continent — that is to say, in strict conformity with the rule of St. Benedict. He lived there for more than half a century, surrounded by the veneration and love of his countrymen, and working steadily to secure the complete observance of Benedictine laws in his community — a pro- cedure which in the district where he had established him- self did not fail to appear a grave innovation. The care which his biographer, a contemporary of his own, takes to set forth this distinctive feature, which ran through his whole life, makes it apparent that he had to contend with the resistance of his monks, and that he only succeeded by sometimes sacrificing his natural humility and his popularity to the austere duties of his abbatial charge.
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