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Carthusian Order
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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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Interview: The Sound Of Silence When Dom Ignace persuaded the Carthusian monks of Parkminster to break their 900-year silence to record an album of their nightly chants, he could not have anticipated the reverberations it would send through his own life.y David Rose
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/13/1998; ; 700+ words
; CARTHUSIAN MONKS are not in...daily prayers. The Carthusians are the most contemplative...There are just 450 Carthusian monks and 100 Carthusian...founder of the Carthusian order, St John...prayers from the Carthusians' 900-year...
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Out of Great Silence: a Carthusian interlude.(Spirituality Issue)(An Infinity of Little Hours by Nancy Klein Maguire, Sounds of Silence by Benedict Kossmann and Into Great Silence by Philip Groning)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 2/29/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...books about the Carthusians (An Infinity of...praised film about a Carthusian monastery (Into...interest in the Carthusians is longstanding...a newly founded Carthusian foundation in Vermont...I read that the Carthusians had launched a...the name of the Carthusian property in ...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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'CULT' CHRONICLES SUN PRAIRIE WOMAN SPENDS YEARS LEARNING AND WRITING ABOUT THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS.(DAYBREAK)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 12/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...the eleventh century Carthusians. The equivalent of...nothing about the extreme Carthusian order. The monastery...Some couldn't handle Carthusian life, and either left...were too much. Bad Carthusian singing has also taken...she emphasizes the Carthusians are not men who retreated...
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Studies in Carthusian monasticism in the late Middle Ages.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 515 words
; 9782503516998 Studies in Carthusian monasticism in the late Middle...the twelfth century, the Carthusians were considered to have the...medieval and early modern Carthusian monasteries in Britain and...The final articles are on Carthusian art in Britain and Italy...
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Carthusian complexity. (Carthusian monastery in Seville, Spain)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra's rejuvenation of a Carthusian monastery in Seville instils a spatial richness and material...that name in the Guadalquivir River, was built as the Carthusian monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas. A large complex...
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More Carthusian monks.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 9/1/2006; ; 403 words
; ...in England, was the only English-speaking Carthusian house. The American Carthusian house in Vermont, founded by Verner Moore...a new site near Arlington, Vt. Since the Carthusians shun publicity, it is easy for them to be...
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Monks: Capturing The Sound Of Silence.(documentary film portrays life of Carthusian monks)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 1/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the French Alps, the monks of the Carthusian Order are considered by some to be...statue, which is on my desk, of a Carthusian in the form of an Oscar." CAPTION...They Trust: Following the lives of Carthusian monks
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 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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Carthusians share tales of isolated life.(RELIGION)(STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 8/30/2009; 700+ words
; ...THE WASHINGTON TIMES For several years, a book about the Carthusians, the Catholic Church's most austere monastic order, has...Klein Maguire, a Capitol Hill resident, married an ex-Carthusian monk. A 17th-century scholar-in-residence at the Folger...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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SILENCE IS HEAVENLY FOR CARTHUSIAN MONKS.(Living)(Movie review)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 6/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...the rhythms of Into the Great Silence, a documentary about Carthusian monks who live in a monastery (called a Charterhouse by the...to live this way constitutes the film's sole wonder. The Carthusian life seems one of addition by subtraction. The rationale...
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Carthusian order's silence speaks volumes in this movie
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/4/2007; ; 618 words
; ...you will become attuned to the smallest sounds - wind in treetops, water filling a bowl, the creak of ancient wood. The Carthusian order offers the most ascetic monastic practice in the world. Virtually unchanged since its founding in 1084, by St Bruno...
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Carthusians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...France in 1084. The Carthusians are peculiar among...more austere. The Carthusian enclosure is called...architectural monument. The Carthusians are devoted mainly...There are a very few Carthusian nuns following a similar...liqueur manufactured by Carthusians in France.
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Carthusian
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Carthusian. Of or belonging to a religious Order...Italy, and Spain. Good examples of Carthusian monastery-buildings are the Certosa...the Colonia family. In England, a Carthusian establishment was called Charter House...
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Carthusian Order
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Carthusian Order. This strictly contemplative order was founded by St Bruno in...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...
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Hugh of Lincoln, St
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...smallholding at Saint-Maximin. He became a Carthusian in 1160 after visiting the Grand Chartreuse...Henry II to become abbot of the first Carthusian monastery in England at Witham (Som...canonized by Pope Honorius III, the first Carthusian saint. Sandra M. Dunkin
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Ludolf of Saxony
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...1300–78), also ‘Ludolf the Carthusian ’, spiritual writer. He entered the Dominican Order and was a Master of Theology before he joined the Carthusians in 1340. His chief works are a ‘Commentary...
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