Yorkshire. dependent on the individual Abbots. Stephens ideawas to create an order which should be self-regulatingand self-reforming. With this view he instituted asystem of reciprocal visitation among the Cistercianhouses and subordinated them all to the parent house where, is one of the results… … RIEVAULX ABBEY. THE CHOIR, LOOKING SOUTH. of Citeaux. Here every year, on Holy Cross Day(14th September), a general chapter was to be heldunder the presidency of the Pater UniversalisOrdinis—the Abbot of Citeaux. The uniformity which enables us, in passing fromone Cistercian ruin to another, to…
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