"Order of saint benedict" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1145. Subsequent charters show that the abbey of Rozel was in possession, in the thirteenth century, of a sort of patriarchate over all the institutions of the order of Saint Benedict that were then in existence in the province of Normandy. A general chapter of the order was held there every year, presided over by the Abbot of Rozel, and at which some ten or a dozen other convents were represented by their highest ...
— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet |
