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Monastery
A monastery is a community of people who withdraw from the world to cultivate their faith through prayer, labor, and ascetic discipline, or the dwelling place of such a community. Monasticism originated in the deserts of Egypt in the third century, and monasteries became a central institution of the medieval Western church.
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- Carthusian OrderHistory
The Carthusian Order is an enclosed Catholic religious order founded in 1084 by Bruno of Cologne in the Chartreuse Mountains of the French Alps. It is distinguished by its combination of eremitic life, in which each monk prays alone and in silence in his own cell, with communal worship.
- John ClimacusPeople
John Climacus was a sixth- and seventh-century monk of Mount Sinai and abbot of its monastery. He wrote the spiritual classic The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which describes the path of faith as a ladder of thirty steps.
- Rule of Saint BenedictHistory
The Rule of Saint Benedict is a rule for monastic life written in the sixth century by Benedict of Nursia at the monastery of Monte Cassino. It addresses prayer and work, obedience, and communal life, and from the Middle Ages onward it became the foundational rule of Western monasticism.
- Codex SinaiticusBible
Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It was discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai and is known as the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament.
- Benedict of NursiaPeople
Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – c. 547) was an Italian monk. He founded the monastery of Monte Cassino and wrote the Rule of Saint Benedict, laying the foundation of monasticism in the Western church.
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