 | William Hurd - Religions - 1799 - 952 pages
...with his presence in the year 1 148. The habit of the Cistertian monks is a white robe, in the nature of a cassock, with a Black scapulary and hood, and is girt with a woollen girdle. In the choir they wear over it a white cowl. The historians of the Cisrerian order... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1808 - 508 pages
...founded in the eleventh century, by St Robert, a Benedictine. Their habit is a white robe in the nature of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and is girt with a woollen girdle. They became so powerful, that they gorerned the greatest part of Europe, both in spirituals,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...exercises observed a continual silence. The habit of the Cistercian monks is a white robe in the nature of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and is girt with a woollen firdle. The nuns wear a white tunic, and a lack scapulary and girdle. CISTEKN, denotes a reservoir,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...exercises observed a continual silence. The habit of the Cistercian monks is a white robe, in the nature of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and is girt with a wooden girdle. The nuns wear a white tunic, and a black scapulary and girdle. CISTERN, denotes a subterraneous reservoir... | |
 | Robert Slater Bayley - Louth (England) - 1834 - 334 pages
...at the abbey were called Cistercians, of the order of the Benedictines. Their founder was Robert,de Citeaux, a town in France, of which place he was an...Bernard, at Clarevaux, in the diocess of Langres. 1116." I .8 a them from any obligation to travel above two days' journey from their monastery on account of... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Trollope - Christianity - 1834 - 630 pages
...negligent and dissolute as the rest of the Benedictins. The habit of the Cistercian monk is awhile robe, in the form of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and he is girt with a wooden girdle. The nuns of this order wear a white tunic, and black scapulary and... | |
 | John D'Alton - Dublin (Ireland : County) - 1838 - 960 pages
...reading, and prayer, observing in all their exercises a continual silence. The habit of a Cistercian monk is a white robe in the form of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and he is girt with a wooden girdle. The nuns of the order wear a white tunic with black scapulary and... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Archaeology - 1899 - 630 pages
...Saints." l The Cistercian habit, according to the author above quoted, "is a white robe in the nature of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and is girt with a woollen girdle." At what period the Hospital near Carlops was founded is not at present ascertainablo... | |
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Cistercians is a white robe in the form of a cassock, with a black scapulary and hood, and is girt with a wooden girdle. 