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Cistercian | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica Rule Of St Benedict, Solitary Life, Cistercian Monk, Dijon France, Protestant Reformation, St Stephen, St Joan, St Benedict, Roman Catholic Church

Cistercian, member of a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in 1098 and named after the original establishment at Citeaux (Latin: Cistercium), near Dijon, France. The order’s founders were a group of Benedictine monks who desired to live under the strictest interpretation of the Rule of St. Benedict.

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