Cistercians
A monastic order, founded at Cistercium, or Cîteaux, by Robert, abbot of Molême, in Burgundy, in 1098, as a branch of the Benedictines. The monks are known also as Bernardines, owing to the patronage of St. Bernard, who entered Cîteaux in 1112 and in 1115 became abbot of a daughter monastery at Clairveaux. In 1664 the order was reformed on an excessively strict basis by Jean le Boutillier de Rance.
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