. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. It lodges above 300 monks, and the establish-ment of the hegumenos is described as resembling the court of apetty sovereign prince. The immense refectory, of the samecruciform shape as that of St Laura, will accommodate 500guests at its 24 marble tables. The annexed plan of a Coptic monastery, from Lenoir, showsa church of three aisles, with cellular apses, and two ranges ofcells on either side of an oblong gallery. Monasticism in the West owes its extension and develop-ment to Benedict of Nursia
. The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. It lodges above 300 monks, and the establish-ment of the hegumenos is described as resembling the court of apetty sovereign prince. The immense refectory, of the samecruciform shape as that of St Laura, will accommodate 500guests at its 24 marble tables. The annexed plan of a Coptic monastery, from Lenoir, showsa church of three aisles, with cellular apses, and two ranges ofcells on either side of an oblong gallery. Monasticism in the West owes its extension and develop-ment to Benedict of Nursia (born 480). His rule wasdiffused with miraculous rapidity from the parent foundationon Monte Cassino through the whole of western Europe, andevery country witnessed the erection of monasteries far exceed-ing anything that had yet been seen in spaciousness andsplendour. Few great towns in Italy were without their Bene-dictine convent, and they quickly rose in all the great centresof population in England, France and Spain. The numberof these monasteries founded between 520 and 700 is. Vatopede. ABBEY 13 Bene-dictine. St Oall.
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