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GRANDMONTINES

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRANDMONTINES , a religious See also:

order founded by St See also:Stephen of See also:Thiers in See also:Auvergne towards the end of the lrth See also:century. St Stephen was so impressed by the lives of the hermits whom he saw in See also:Calabria that he desired to introduce the same manner of See also:life into his native See also:country. He was ordained, and in 1073 obtained the See also:pope's permission to establish an order. He betook himself to Auvergne, and in the See also:desert of Muret, near See also:Limoges, he made himself a hut of branches of trees and lived there for some See also:time in See also:complete solitude. A few disciples gathered See also:round him, and a community was formed. The See also:rule was not reduced to See also:writing until after Stephen's See also:death, 1124. The life was eremitical and very severe in regard to silence, See also:diet and bodily austerities; it was modelled after the rule of the Camaldolese, but various regulations were adopted from the Augustinian canons. The See also:superior was called the "Corrector." About 1150 the hermits, being compelled to leave Muret, settled in the neighbouring desert of Grandmont, whence the order derived its name. See also:Louis VII. founded a See also:house at See also:Vincennes near See also:Paris, and the order had a See also:great See also:vogue in See also:France, as many as sixty houses being established by 1170, but it seems never to have found favour out of France; it had, however, a couple of cells in See also:England up to the See also:middle of the 15th century. The See also:system of See also:lay See also:brothers was introduced on a large See also:scale, and the management of the temporals was in great measure See also:left in their hands; the arrangement did not See also:work well, and the quarrels between the lay brothers and the See also:choir monks were a See also:constant source of weakness. Later centuries witnessed mitigations and reforms in the life, and at last the order came to an end just before the See also:French Revolution. There were two or three convents of Grandmontine nuns.

The order played no great See also:

part in See also:history. See See also:Helyot, Hist. See also:des ordres religieux (1714), vii. CC. 54, 55; Max Heimbucher, Orden and Kongregationen (1896), i. § 31; and the See also:art. in Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexicon (ed. 2), and in See also:Herzog, Realencyklopadie (ed. 3). (E. C.

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