Carthusian Order

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 700+ words | Copyright

Carthusian Order. This strictly contemplative order was founded by St Bruno in 1084 at the Grande Chartreuse (hence its name). The monks were vowed to silence; each lived in his own cell, working and devoting several hours daily to mental prayer, and meeting for the Office, conventual Mass, and for meals only on feast days. Between 1121 and 1128, Guigo I compiled as their Rule the ‘Consuetudines Cartusiae’, which received Papal approval in 1133. Subsequent elaborations have done little to modify the austerity which characterized the Order from the beginning. At the end of the 18th cent. the Carthusians suffered badly in the French Revolution, and in 1901 they were again driven from the Grande Chartreuse, to which they returned in 1940. The Order includes a few houses of nuns.

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