Sometimes both Monks and Canons Regular were given
permission to work outside their institutional buildings.
For example, in 1399 Boniface IX gave permission to
the Augustinian Abbey and Convent of Norton, Cheshire,
(which started life in 1134 as a Priory) to send out Canons to
serve as priests of the appropriated parish church
at Burton upon Stather, in Lincolnshire.
These same Austin Canons were referred to as Monachi
in the Rotuli Hugonis de Wells.
Ron Hornsby
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From: Susan Carroll-Clark <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:57
Subject: Re: monastic query
> Greetings!
>
> A few additional comments:
>
> The classic difference between a monk and a friar is that a monk lives a
> more or less cloistered/enclosed life, whereas the friar's work is out
> amongst the people. Both, of course, follow Rules of various sorts.
>
> When it comes to women religious, there's a distinction (albeit one which
> gets fuzzy from time to time) between a "choir nun" (this is the group who
> are usually termed "sanctimoniales") and a "lay sister" (often "conversae"
> in Latin). The choir nuns were those engaged in contemplation, saying the
> Hours, and the major work of the house, whereas the lay sisters were often
> of a lower class and served the choir nuns (although this is not always
> true).
>
> Susan
>
>
>
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