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
6. =The Premonstratensian Order= was founded in A.D. 1121
by Norbert, the only German founder of orders besides and
after Bruno. A rich, worldly-minded canon of Xanthen in
the diocese of Cologne, he was brought to another mind by
the fall of a thunderbolt beside him. He retired along with
several other like-minded companions into the rough valley
of Prémontré in the bishopric of Laon (_Præmonstratum_,
because pointed out to him in a vision). In his rule he
joined together the canonical duties with an extremely
strict monastic life. He appeared in A.D. 1126 as a preacher
of repentance at the Diet of Spires, was there elected
archbishop of Magdeburg, and made a most impressive entrance
into his metropolis dressed in his mendicant garb. His order
spread and established many convents both for monks and for
nuns.
7. =The Trinitarian Order=, _ordo s. Trinitatis de redemptione
captivorum_, was called into existence by Innocent III., and
had for its work the redemption of Christian captives.
8. =The Cœlestine Order= was founded by Peter of Murrone,
afterwards Pope Cœlestine V. (§ 96, 22). Living in a
cave of Mount Murrone in Apulia, under strict penitential
discipline and engaged in mystic contemplation, the fame
of his sanctity attracted to him many companions, with
whom in A.D. 1254 he established a monastery on Mount
Majella. Gregory X., in whose presence Peter, according
to his biographer, hung up his monkish cowl in empty space,
upon a sunbeam which he took for a cord stretching across,
instituted the order as Brethren of the Holy Spirit. But
when in A.D. 1294 their founder ascended the papal throne,
they took his papal name. This order, which gave itself up
entirely to extravagant mystic contemplation, spread over
Italy, France and the Netherlands.
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