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Stan Metheny
>From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Hierarchy of religious orders
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:38:16 -0000
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Yes, it would unfortunately appear that Paul's note was inaccurate in every
>single respect! It was the Bridgettine brothers became extinct in the 19th
>century. The Syon community ceased to use their Breviary (the brothers had
>used the local diocesan one - Sarum in the case of Syon) for the Roman
>Breviary between about 1597 and 1897 - but the Breviary was not reprinted
>for them until 1908. (The publisher's stock then was destroyed by war in
>1914).
>
>John Briggs
>
>Whitehead John wrote:
>>
>>The Bridgettine community of Syon Abbey at South Brent in Devon has a
>>continuous history from its foundation by Henry V in 1415-1420, with
>>a long period of exile from 1559 until 1861 in Flanders, France and
>>Portugal. Throughout that period it retained its English nature, and
>>is the sole surviving pre-Reformation English monastic community.
>>
>>>Paul Chandler wrote:
>>>
>>>For what it's worth, I think that the present Bridgettine nuns are not
>>>really a survival but an early 20th-century re-foundation of the order,
>>>which had become extinct after the French Revolution
>
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