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Cistercians (Adam Woolfitt/Robert Harding Picture Library)

Cistercians, Roman Catholic monastic order founded in 1098 at Cîteaux (Latin Cistercium), France, by a group of Benedictine monks from the abbey of...

Portugal (Verónica López)

Alfonso I, aided by the Templars and other military orders sworn to fight the Moors, extended the border of the new kingdom as far south as the River...

England (Adam Woolfitt/Robert Harding Picture Library)

The monasteries, especially those of the Cistercians, led the rural expansion and became wealthy in the process. More than a dozen cathedrals were...

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- relating to religious group: relating to an austere contemplative Christian order of monks and nuns founded by reformist Benedictines in 1098
- monk or nun: a member of the Cistercian order of monks and nuns

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