. The Benedictines of Caldey Island (formerly of Painsthorpe, York) : containing the history, purpose, method, and summary of the rule of the Benedictines of the Isle of Caldey, S. Wales . ted on names are written not only in the Book of Life, butalso in the lives of countless thousands who have lived sincetheir day—brought to the saving knowledge of God by theprayers and influence of the holy lives of those whom theynever saw, but whom they will one day greet with words ofgratitude:— From thy mouthWe heard of Jesus love, and thine the handThat brought us to His feet. Caldey, though
. The Benedictines of Caldey Island (formerly of Painsthorpe, York) : containing the history, purpose, method, and summary of the rule of the Benedictines of the Isle of Caldey, S. Wales . ted on names are written not only in the Book of Life, butalso in the lives of countless thousands who have lived sincetheir day—brought to the saving knowledge of God by theprayers and influence of the holy lives of those whom theynever saw, but whom they will one day greet with words ofgratitude:— From thy mouthWe heard of Jesus love, and thine the handThat brought us to His feet. Caldey, though now unknown to fame, may also be classedamong the Sanctuaries of the Sea. Its history has long beenveiled in obscurity, but recent publications have brought tolight the interesting facts briefly alluded to in Chapter hundred years before S. Columba founded his Monasteryon Iona ( 565), S. Illtud was Abbot of the Celtic Monasteryof Caldey, which was even then a centre of educational andmissionary activity. For nearly a thousand years it was,as will be told later, exclusively Monastic: then for threeand a half centuries it lay desolate: but now, in the good Jt> 10 &. Sanctuaries of tbe Sea providence of God, a third era is opening out for it, linkingit to earlier and happier times, for it has become once morethe property of Benedictines. Monasticism is a subject of engrossing interest. In itsvaried phases it appeals to the minds of many. The historianfinds it closely interwoven with history: the archaeologistand the scholar gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness toits builders and writers: the student of human nature seesin it an attempt, venerable and wide-spread, to deal withsome of the ethical and moral problems which confront , there is no sphere of interest which the MonasticLife has not touched. It has been a powerful factor in thebuilding up of law and order: civilization has followed inits wake, and nations through it have risen to
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