 | John Henry Newman - 1844 - 518 pages
...one family, united by ties of blood; Citeaux is the common ancestor of the whole, and the four first abbeys founded from it, La Ferte, Pontigny, Clairvaux,...inspect the abbeys which had sprung from his own. Every year a general chapter was held at Citeaux, which all the abbots in the order, without exception,... | |
 | English saints - 1844 - 674 pages
...one family, united by ties of blood ; Citeaux is the common ancestor of the whole, and the four first abbeys founded from it, La Ferte, Pontigny, Clairvaux,...inspect the abbeys which had sprung from his own. Every year a general chapter was held at Citeaux, which all the abbots in the order, without exception,... | |
 | John Bernard Dalgairns - 1845 - 206 pages
...universalis ordinis ; he visited_ any monastery_ that_he pleased, and wherever Jig went the _abbot gave up his place to him. On the other hand, the abbots . pL the fourjiliations, as tney were termed, visited Citeaux^jbesides which each abbot went every... | |
 | John Bernard Dalgairns - 1898 - 238 pages
...one family, united by ties of blood ; Citeaux is the common ancestor of the whole, and the four first abbeys founded from it, La Ferte, Pontigny, Clairvaux,...inspect the abbeys which had sprung from his own. Every year a general chapter was held at Citeaux, which all the abbots in the order, without exception,... | |
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Citeaux is the common ancestor of the whole, and the four first abbeys founded from it, La Ferte, Pontigny, Clairvaux, and Morimond, as its four eldest daughters, respectively governed the abbeys sprung from them. The abbot of Citeaux was called Pater... 