"Order of Saint Benedict" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... convent of monks standing in England, except those of Glastenbury and Abingdon, which was their state in the days of king Alfred, as Leland observes. St. Dunstan, St. Oswald, and St. Ethelwold, restored the monasteries, and propagated exceedingly the monastic state. St. Oswald had professed the order of Saint Benedict in France, in the monastery of Fleury; and, together with the aforesaid two bishops, he established the same in a great measure in England. St. Dunstan published a uniform rule for the monasteries of this nation, entitled, Regularis Concordiae Anglicae Nationis, extant in Reyner, and Spelman, ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler |
