M. Basil Pennington Papers, 1949-1990.
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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
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During much of Doctor JoseĢ Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...
Trappists
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Since the early nineteenth century Trappists has been the popular name for the main branch of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance who were centered at the Abbey of La Grande Trappe in France until the restoration of Citeaux as the motherhouse in 1892. The reform was originally introduced by Armand de Rance, godson of Richelieu, who was at an early age provided with a number of benefices, including that of commendatory abbot of La Trappe. In 1662 he resigned all his benefices except that of ...
Pennington, M. Basil, 1931-2005
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Born in Queens, New York, on July 28, 1931, as Robert Pennington, M. Basil Pennington moved with his family to Freeport, Long Island, as a young child, and attended parochial school there for a year and a half. When his father died, his mother returned the family to Brooklyn, where he attended another parochial school and then entered the Minor Seminary of the Diocese of Brooklyn (Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception), which he attended from 1945 to 1951. Pennington was active during h...
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On March 21, 1098, the Benedictine abbot Robert of Molesme led twenty-one of his monks to Citeaux, near Dijon, to establish a new monastery where they hoped to follow Benedict of Nursia's rule for monasteries in all its fullness. The monks of Molesme obtained a papal command for the return of Robert to their monastery. The new community of Citeaux continued until 1109 under the leadership of Alberic, who introduced the idea of lay brothers being accepted as full members of the monastic family. S...
