Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
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Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)
Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
Church history
13th century this order had 2,000 monasteries and 6,000
nunneries.
5. =The Congregation of Scottish Monasteries= in Germany
owed its origin to the persistent love of travel on the part
of Irish and Scottish monks, which during the 10th century
received a new impulse from the Danish invasions (§ 93, 1).
The first monastery erected in Germany for the reception
exclusively of Irish monks was that of St. Martin at Cologne,
built in the 10th century. Much more important, however, was
the Scottish monastery of St. James at Regensburg, founded
in A.D. 1067 by Marianus Scotus and two companions. It was
the parent monastery of eleven other Scottish cloisters in
South Germany. Old Celtic sympathies (§ 77, 8), which may have
originally bound them together, could not assert themselves
in the new home during this period as they did in earlier days;
and when Innocent III., at the Lateran Council of A.D. 1215,
sanctioned them as a separate congregation bound by the
Benedictine rule, there certainly remained no longer any
trace of Celtic peculiarities. They were distinguished at
first for strict asceticism, severe discipline and scientific
activity, but subsequently they fell lower than all the rest
in immorality and self-indulgence (§ 112).
§ 98.2. =New Monkish Orders.=--Reserving the great mendicant
orders, the following are the most celebrated among the vast
array of new orders, not bound by the Benedictine rule:
1. =The Order of Grammont= in France, founded by Stephen of
Ligerno in A.D. 1070. It took simply the gospel as its rule,
cultivated a quiet, humble and peaceable temper, and so by
the 12th century it had its very life crushed out of it by
the bold assumptions of its lay brethren.
2. =The Order of St. Anthony=, founded in A.D. 1095 by a
French nobleman of Dauphiny [Dauphiné], called Guaston,
in gratitude for the recovery of his son Guérin from the
so-called St. Anthony’s fire on his invoking St. Anthony.
He expended his whole property upon the restoring of a
hospital beside the church of St. Didier la Mothe, in a
chapel of which it was supposed the bones of Anthony lay,
and devoted himself, together with his son and some other
companions, to the nursing of the sick. At first merely a
lay fraternity, the members took in A.D. 1218 the monk’s
vow. Boniface VIII. made them canons under the rule of
St. Augustine (§ 45, 1). They were now called Antonians,
and devoted themselves to contemplation. The order spread
greatly, especially in France. They wore a black cloak with
a T-formed cross of blue upon the breast (Ezek. ix. 9) and a
little bell round the neck while engaged in collecting alms.
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