A Cistercian is a member of the Cistercian Order (ən, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis), a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns. They are variously called the Bernardines, after the highly influential St. Bernard of Clairvaux (though the term is also used of the Franciscan Order in Poland and Lithuania), or the Whi...
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The Cistercians are a religious order named from its original convent, Citteaux (Cistercium), not far from Dijon, in Eastern France, where the society was formed in 1098 by Robert, abbot of Molesme, under the strictest observance of the rule of St Benedict. The Cistercians led a severely ascetic and contemplative life, and having freed themselves f...
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