Benedictines: Facts

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Hugh Candidus (c.1095 – c.1160), a Benedictine monk, wrote a history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation as Medeshamstede in the mid 7th century up to the 12th century?
Noella Marcellino, a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese, was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut's Abbey of Regina Laudis?
Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, Georgia, was designed by a Benedictine Monk and architect from Belmont Abbey?
St. Trudpert's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War?
one Prior of Ecclesfield (priory pictured), near Sheffield in England, was accused by Benedictine authorities of "embezzlement of the priory's goods" and of living an "evil life"?
the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway (pictured)?
the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa?
the village of Lamberley in Northumberland, England has on display a bell from a small convent of Benedictine nuns that was devastated by William Wallace in 1296?

the San Juan Bautista Parish of Tenango del Aire in Mexico was initially run by the Franciscans?

Reinald, a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross, was nicknamed Macer, French for "skinny"?
the Abbey of Fontenay, near Dijon in France, was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 and is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe?
the earliest known Polish language sentence comes from the Book of Henryków, a 13th-century chronicle of a Cistercian abbey?
the founder of the Cistercian Abbeyknockmoy in 1190, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht, was buried there in 1224?
visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?

monastic historian David Knowles wrote that Dominic of Evesham (who died before 1145) authored the deathbed account of the Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham in the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham?
Áed Ua Crimthainn, abbot of Terryglass, Ireland, was the compiler and principal scribe of the Book of Leinster, a Middle Irish illuminated manuscript (pictured)?
Ólchobar mac Cináeda, king of Munster and abbot of Emly, may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the Vikings in 848?
Abbot's Palace, a roccoco palace in Oliwa funded by the last Cistercian abbot of the Oliwa monastery, Jacek Rybiński, was burned down by German troops during World War II?
Laurence Mancuso was the founding abbot of the Eastern Orthodox monastic community of New Skete (pictured), which is known for its dog training?
after serving as a border guard, Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest, monk, abbot, bishop, and then an abbot again, in the 7th century?
bad advice from Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Scattery Island and chief adviser to King Cormac mac Cuilennáin, is said to have caused a war in which Cormac and many others died?
the abbot of Linh Son Pagoda, one of the tourist attractions in Da Lat, Vietnam, has held the post for more than forty years?
the first Western abbot of Singapore's Buddhist Poh Ern Shih Temple was an American?