Benedictine Order (Noun)
Meaning
A Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- Scholars from the Benedictine Order produced handwritten copies of ancient texts and books to ensure their preservation for future generations.
- The monastery, which belonged to the Benedictider-order, served as a major center for musical performance and musical scholarship during the Middle Ages.
- Monks from the monastery of this Benedictine order went as missionaries to England in the 7th and 8th centuries to help with the widespread Christianization of the country.
- Historians often attribute the earliest known constitution for genuine monastic community as owned to Emperor Constantine's help as well as the early church and the highly organized constitution of the original rule of the Benedictine order.
- During the dark and Middle Ages the ben-edictine order held together with schol-astice the last great remesiancences of intermissionary knowledge and ancient educational structures intact.