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VALLOMBROSIANS , 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 of monks under the See also:Benedictine See also:rule, founded by St See also:John Gualbert in 1038. He was son of a Florentine nobleman, and became first a Benedictine and then a Camaldulian. Finally, about 1030, he withdrew to See also:Vallombrosa, a shady See also:dale on the See also:side of a See also:mountain in the See also:Apennines, ro m. from See also:Florence, and for some years led a completely solitary. See also:life. Disciples, however, gathered around him, and he formed them into an order in which the cenobitical and the eremitical lives should be combined. The monks lived in a monastery, not in See also:separate huts like the See also:Camaldulians, and the Benedictine rule was the basis of the life; but the contemplative side was strongly emphasized, and every See also:element of Benedictine life was eliminated that could be supposed to interrupt the See also:attention of the mind to See also:God—even See also:manual labour. The Vallombrosians spread in See also:Italy and See also:France, but they never had more than sixty houses. They now have three, with some sixty monks in all. The See also:habit was originally See also:grey, but it became See also:black; and the life also has been assimilated to that of the See also:Benedictines. There were some convents of Vallombrosian nuns.
See See also:Helyot, Histoire See also:des Ordres religieux (1718), v. cc. 28, 29; Max Heimbucher, Orden u. Kongregationen (1907), I. § 44. (E. C.
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