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OLIVETANS , one of the lesser monastic orders following the See also:Benedictine See also:Rule, founded by St See also:Bernard Tolomei, a Sienese nobleman. At the See also:age of See also:forty, when the leading See also:man in See also:Siena, he retired along with two companions to live a See also:hermit's See also:life at Accona, a See also:desert See also:place fifteen See also:miles to the See also:south of Siena, 1313. Soon others joined them, and in 1324 See also:John XXII. approved of the formation of an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. The Benedictine Rule was taken as the basis of the life; but austerities were introduced beyond what St See also:Benedict prescribed, and the See also:government was framed on the mendicant, not the monastic, See also:model, the superiors being appointed only for a See also:short See also:term of years. The See also:habit is See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white. Partly from the See also:olive trees that abound there, and partly out of devotion to the See also:Passion, Accona was christened See also:Monte Oliveto, whence the order received its name. By the end of the 14th See also:century there were upwards of a See also:hundred monasteries, chiefly in See also:Italy; and in the 18th there still were eighty, one of the most famous being See also:San Miniato at See also:Florence. The monastery of Monte Oliveto See also:Maggiore is an extensive See also:building of considerable See also:artistic See also:interest, enhanced by frescoes of See also:Signorelli and See also:Sodoma; it is now a See also:national See also:monument occupied by two or three monks as custodians, though it could accommodate three hundred. The Olivetans have a See also:house in See also:Rome and a few others, including one founded in See also:Austria in 1899. There are about 125 monks in all, 54 being priests. In See also:America are some convents of Olivetan nuns.
See See also:Helyot, Hist. See also:des ordres religieux (1713), vi. c. 24; Max Heimbucher, Orden u. Kongregationen (1907), i. § 3o; Wetzel- u. Welte, Kirchenlexicon (ed. 2) ; J. A. See also:Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy (1898), " Monte Oliveto ": B. M. Marechaux, See also:Vie de bienheureux Bernard Tolomei (1888). (E. C.
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