Cluniac Order
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The Order of Cluny was a monastic order of the Catholic Church following the Rule of Saint Benedict. It was founded in the 10th century and suppressed at the end of the 18th century.
Peter the Venerable and the monks
Majolus of Cluny, anonymous 18th-century painting
Basilica of Saint-Urbain, Troyes, statue of Odilo of Cluny
Reconstruction of the abbey church of Cluny III.
Rule of Saint Benedict
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The Rule of Saint Benedict is a book of precepts written in Latin c. 530 by St. Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.
Cluniac Order
…The Order of Cluny (or Cluniac order) was a monastic order of the Catholic Church following the Rule of Saint Benedict. It was founded in the 10th century and suppressed at the end of the 18th century. At the beginning of the 10th century, a desire to reform monasticism…
The oldest copy of the Rule of Saint Benedict, from the 8th century (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 48, fols. 6v–7r)
Saint Benedict writing the rules. Painting (1926) by Hermann Nigg (1849–1928).
Saint Benedict delivering his rule to the monks of his order, Monastery of St. Gilles, Nimes, France, 1129
Laborare est Orare (To Work is to Pray). This 1862 painting by John Rogers Herbert depicts monks at work in the fields.