educational services, 151; its agricultural work, 155, 404; spread of, 158; its followers among the royalty, 159. Bernard, of Clairvaux, his birth and monastic services, 193; character of his monastery, 192; on drugs and doctors, 194; his reforms, 195; Vaughan on, 195; Storrs on, 197; the Crusades, 197; on the abuses of charity, 411. Bernardone, Peter, father of Francis, 208. _See_ Francis. Bethlehem, Jerome's monasteries at, 85, 88; Paula establishes monasteries at, 100. Bible, The, and monasticism, 30, 376. Bigotry, of monks, 394. Biography, monastic history centers in, 84. Björnstrom, on the stigmata, 223. Blæsilla, murmurs against monks at her funeral, 125. Blunt, on the: fall of the monasteries, 333. Boccaccio, comments on his visit to Monte Cassino, 136. Boleyn, Anne, and Henry VIII., 294. Bollandists, Catholic, on Dominic and the Inquisition, 238. Bonaventura, on the stigmata of Francis, 220; a Franciscan, 228; on vices of the monks, 337. Boniface, the apostle to the Germans, 167. Bonner, Bishop, persuades Prior Houghton to sign oath of supremacy, 303. Brahminism, asceticism under, 19. Britain, Tertullian, Origen, and Bede, on Christianity in, 123;. relation of early church in, to Rome, 162; monasticism in, 162, 168. Brotherhood of Penitence, 229. Bruno, the abbot of Cluny, 177. Bruno, founder of Carthusian order, 188; Ruskin on the order, 189; the monastery of the Chartreuse, 189; his eulogy of solitude, 396. Bryant, poem of, on fall of monasteries, 353. Buddha, on the ascetic life, 357. Buddhism, asceticism under, 19. Burke, Edmund, quoted by Gasquet on fall of monasteries, 312. Burnet, on report of Royal Commissioners, 316. Bury, Father, on Chinese monks, 20. C