In the former, known as "cenobitic" (koinobion, coenobium, common life), there is a greater monastic rigor. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Martin of Tours founded (c. 362) a cenobitic community of monks near Poitiers. From Wordnik.com. [b. The Early Church] Reference
With its hermitic and cenobitic antecedents, monasti - cism developed in the East, but received a unique direction in the West. From Wordnik.com. [REFORMATION] Reference
Seeking to live a more solitary life as a hermit, he left the cenobitic life of the Benedictine abbey to search for an appropriate refuge. From Wordnik.com. [June 19: Feast of St. Romuald] Reference
In the first half of the 4th century Pachomius (c. 290346) established cenobitic (communal, in contrast to eremitic) monasteries for men and for women in Upper Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [b. The Early Church] Reference
The result was a decided preference for the cenobitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
It has all the essential characteristics of cenobitic religious life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Thus, step by step, organized or cenobitic monasticism easily and naturally came into existence. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference
Alexandria, the cenobitic monasteries are in the South, and confined to a relatively small area. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The two principal works of Cassian deal with the cenobitic life and the principal or deadly sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Discussions arose in Egypt as to the respective merits of the cenobitic and the eremitic style of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
It ocnsisted of a cenobium where the cenobitic life was practised by novices and others less proficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
In the following passage Basil points out the advantages of the cenobitic life over the solitary or hermit life. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference
It gave way, however, to the cenobitic, and no monastery now extant can be said really to resemble the ancient lauras. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Caroline, absorbed in the idea that you should eat merely to live, treats Adolphe to the delights of a cenobitic table. From Wordnik.com. [Analytical Studies] Reference
The Carthusian life is essentially solitary and contemplative with a certain admixture of the cenobitic element (see I). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
St. Pachomius, a contemporary of St. Anthony, brought all his monks together under one roof, thus founding the cenobitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The monks even increased the austerities prescribed by St. Pachomius and could change from the cenobitic to the eremetical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
There were villages or colonies of hermits - the eremitical type; and monasteries in which a community life was led - the cenobitic type. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
From another point of view, the unchanging East shows us in the monks of the present day, the institutions of the first ages of cenobitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Oftentimes those who helped most to spread the cenobitic ideal were originally solitaries themselves, for instance, St. Severinus of Norica and St. Benedict of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
His attraction was for the cenobitic not eremitic life, so after staying for some time with the monks at Camaldoli, he settled at Vallombrosa, where he founded his monastery. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Christianity, and wrote most scathingly against the Roman Catholic priesthood, and the cenobitic life of the monks, yet at times he had certain sympathies with Roman Catholicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
In the observance of the Rule, however, the greater monasteries are divided into two classes, some following strictly the cenobitic life, while others permit a larger personal freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
With the help of the imperial authority of John Tzimisces (969-976) all opposition was set aside and the cenobitic or community life imposed on the hermits scattered in the valleys and forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Beginning from the tenth century, the peninsula of Athos saw the rise of monasteries properly so called, and saw the cenobitic usage (community life) supplant the hap-hazard methods of earlier days. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
The eremitic life spread to the West in the fourth century, and flourished especially in the next two centuries, that is to say, till experience had shown by its results the advantages of the cenobitic organization. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The first hermits tended strongly to be purely eremitical, but the cenobitic development was hastened hour by the necessities of life find by the influence of neigbouring Benedictine houses, especially perhaps of Cluny. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
4The Dominicans did not construct houses that always resembled traditional monastic communities or those of regular canons, although in theory those communities served as the model for cenobitic living for the Dominicans. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
A combination of the cenobitic with the anchoretic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
A sufficiently convenient cloister, in accordance with the cenobitic custom, but do not live together claustraliter like other monks. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Less for the sake of reform than of perfection, and of adapting to a special end the combination of the cenobitic and eremitic life, St. Romuald (d. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
This evolved into cenobitic monasticism. From Wordnik.com. [Patience] Reference
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