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Carthusian order

noun
1.
An austere contemplative Roman Catholic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084.





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... reformatory movement was begun by St. Bruno, who founded the Carthusian Order about the year 1086. Ruskin says: "In their strength, from the foundation of the order at the close of the eleventh century to the beginning of the fourteenth, they reared in their mountain fastnesses and sent out to minister to the world a succession of men of immense ...
— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries • Alfred Wesley Wishart


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