- Cistercian by Webster's
... a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.(n.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
- Stephen Harding, Saint by Elijah Alvarez
C.1060–1134, English monastic reformer. He entered the abbey at Sherborne in his youth; later...
- Alain de Lille by Dalton Richards
C.1128–c.1202, French scholastic philosopher, a Cistercian, honored by his contemporaries as the...
- Cistercians by Charlotte Jones
Monks of a Roman Catholic religious order founded (1098) by St. Robert, abbot of Molesme, in...
- Bernard de Clairvaux, Saint by Angelica Gonzales
(born 1090, probably Fontaine-les-Dijons, near Dijon, Burgundy—died Aug. 20, 1153, Clairvaux,...