 | John Henry Newman - 1844 - 518 pages
...100, besides a rabble of guests and paupers, who infested the gates of the abbey. With these disorders before his eyes, Stephen determined on instituting...congregation; but his object was not to lord it over Christ's heritage, but to establish between the Cistercian abbeys a lasting bond of love. The body... | |
 | English saints - 1844 - 674 pages
...100, besides a rabble of guests and paupers, who infested the gates of the abbey. With these disorders before his eyes, Stephen determined on instituting...congregation ; but his object was not to lord it over Christ's heritage, but to establish between the Cistercian abbeys a lasting bond of love. The body... | |
 | John Bernard Dalgairns - 1845 - 206 pages
...100, besides a rabble of guests and paupers, who infested the gates of the abbey. With these disorders before his eyes, Stephen determined on instituting...congregation ; but his object was not to lord it over Christ's heritage, but to establish between the Cistercian abbeys a lasting bond qf love. The body... | |
 | John Bernard Dalgairns - 1898 - 238 pages
...100, besides a rabble of guests and paupers, who infested the gates of the abbey. With these disorders before his eyes, Stephen determined on instituting...reciprocal visitation between the abbeys of his order. He fnight, as abbot of Citeaux, have constituted himself the head of this increasing congregation ; but... | |
 | 1885 - 444 pages
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This was the fault of the system; one bad abbot ruined all; Pontius left to his successor a house loaded with debt, with 300 monks to support on revenues which were barely sufficient to maintain 100, besides a rabble of guests and paupers, who infested... 