. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. udru, patroness of Mons, who died in 670. The cross is in silver, with gold relief, and studded with precious stones. Eelics preserved in the Church of St. Waudru, at Mons. some shady walks for meditation, as well as a fruit and kitchen garden,the cultivation of which was a healthy and agreeable recreation. In thisvast aggregation of monastic buildings and appurtenances (Fig. 244), wehave a holy city in the heart of the secular town, a retreat for the peaceful,the devout, and the abstinent, amidst the troubl
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. udru, patroness of Mons, who died in 670. The cross is in silver, with gold relief, and studded with precious stones. Eelics preserved in the Church of St. Waudru, at Mons. some shady walks for meditation, as well as a fruit and kitchen garden,the cultivation of which was a healthy and agreeable recreation. In thisvast aggregation of monastic buildings and appurtenances (Fig. 244), wehave a holy city in the heart of the secular town, a retreat for the peaceful,the devout, and the abstinent, amidst the troubles and vanities of theworld. THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. The endowment of each, monastery was generally made up of the propertybelonging to the monks who had fixed their abode there. If the novice wasan adult, he was obliged to distribute all bis goods to the poor, or to makea solemn grant of them to the abbey, before he could be admitted to theminor orders. If he was a child whose parents devoted him to the serviceof God (Fig. 243), the parents either made no gift to the community which. Fig. 243.—The Offering of a Child to an Abbot.—From a Miniature in a Manuscript published atthe Close of the Thirteenth Century (Burgundian Library, Brussels). received the young novice, or they ceded the income of the lands andthe property by deed of transfer to the monastery. Enriched by thesesuccessive donations, the monasteries, especially those which had acquireda wide renown for learning or piety, acquired still more wealth throughthe largesses of princes, great nobles, and bishops, through the economicalmanagement of the abbots, and the annual produce of the agricultural andcommercial labour of the monks. To the various arts and trades whichwere at first carried on by the monks with a view to do honour to the s s 3»4 THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
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