Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 390
rfered with their cenobitic life.This manifest infraction of the primitive discipline, while it lowered themoral position of the monks, rather increased than otherwise their socialinfluence, and gave them greater weight in the world. Their piety, too,was only temporarily distracted from its… … Fig. 238.—History of St. Benedict.—On the left are the monks of a neighbouring monastery, whohave come to seduce him from his hermitage in order to place him at their head; but theausterity of his rule soon dissatisfies them, and they resolve to rid themselves cf him. Onthe right the monks are…
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