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I wish it was a bit more Christocentric and a bit less cluttered....some cistercian simplicity needed there.
It has been terrific... Joanna Bogle 2009
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A cistercian monastery was founded near here in the year 1142.
Little Cozy Corner 2008
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cistercian comedy performance play preparatory school twain
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hipster doofus @ November 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm why would his players have to help him with the definitions? what are you trying to say tim? cistercian sucks.
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cistercian comedy performance play preparatory school twain
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This rule, modeled upon the cistercian customs for lay brothers, imposed upon the knights, besides the obligations of the three religious vows, the rules of silence in the refectory, dormitory, and oratory; of abstinence on four days a week, besides several fast days during the year; they were also obliged to recite a fixed number of paternosters for each day Hour of the Office; to sleep in their armour; to wear, as their full dress, the Cistercian white mantle with the scarlet cross fleurdelisée.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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