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As did the abbey of Santa Maria del Goleto (near Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi [AV] in southern Campania) from its founding by St. William of Vercelli in 1133 until its closure early in the sixteenth. In this case the few males were monks. It had a similarly arranged dependency at Monte Pierno, near San Fele (PZ) in Basilicata.
Best,
John Dillon
On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at 7:40 am, Tom Izbicki wrote:
> Fontevrault worked similarly, the men's community existing to provide
> chaplains to the nuns.
>
> Tom Izbicki
> >>> Anders Fröjmark <[log in to unmask]> 11/15/2006 6:19 AM >>>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> In the discussion of the hierarchy between men and women in the
> religious orders, the Bridgettine Order (Ordo Sanctissimi Salvatoris)
> in its original form (1370 with modifications of 1378) is an
> interesting case. The abbeys were independent and consisted of two
> communities, a principal community of women (since the order was
> founded "first and foremost for women") and, to ensure the spiritual
> needs of the nuns and communication between the individual abbeys of
> the order, an adjunct community of friars. The head of the entire
> abbey, including its property, was the abbess, but the confessor
> general of the friars was the director in spiritual matters.
> Furthermore, the abbeys were subject to the jurisdiction of the
> diocesan bishops.
>
> This model where the friars as well as the nuns were subject to a
> woman--the abbess--was however contested in many abbeys of the order,
> for instance in the mother abbey of Vadstena in Sweden and in the
> Paradiso abbey in Florence, and internal struggles led to
> modifications in the system of governance. The end result is that the
> surviving abbeys of the order consist of only one community, the
> community of nuns. (In fact, also a community of Bridgettine monks
> exists in Oregon since 1976.)
>
> Best,
>
> Anders Fröjmark
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