Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . Church in its beginningwas entirely religious and monastical, and very indifferent fromthe Churches of other Provinces (Alexandria excepted) so themonastical Order engrafted into the Cathedral Churches ofEngland did constitute a certain peculiar Congregation verydifferent from the Order of St. Benedidt in other Provinces ;d
Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . Church in its beginningwas entirely religious and monastical, and very indifferent fromthe Churches of other Provinces (Alexandria excepted) so themonastical Order engrafted into the Cathedral Churches ofEngland did constitute a certain peculiar Congregation verydifferent from the Order of St. Benedidt in other Provinces ;different I say, not so much in regular observances or manner ofconversation, as in the end of religious observance raised to ahigher point of dignity and charge; for religious men made upthe nobled and governing part of the clergy yet ceased not to beReligious nor to live like such, both in Community and otherduties of their profession ; and over them besides their localSuperior, St. Augustine was placed as their common Father orPresident General, whose paternal solicitude and daily instanceextended itself no less to all Abbeys than to all Churches of theKingdom, and had no less a dependence of him and himself noless responsible for their lives and conversation. 20. CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. the title of congregation is as due to the English Benedictines as to the other Congregations at their beginning. > —•» < But these which are in effed: no more than the firstlineaments and rudiments of our Congregation yet are able tomerit that appellation since we see other such like confraternitiesdid assume it as their due upon no other title. For in likemanner the Cluny Congregation is said to have taken itsbeginning from St. Benno and St. Odo, notwithstanding that intheir days the celebrating of General Chapters was not yet begunnor an entire union and communication of monasteries com-menced nor Pontifical privileges nor Royal Patents granted forthe confirmation and practice of s
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