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From: Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]>

> No, Chris, you PREsume .... (:-)

well, Brenda, you're assuming that i presumed.

> It was in the 1990s and at Hauterive in Switzerland and during Lent AND in
the Alpes or near enough. Hauterive is Cistercian not Trappist.

is *now* or was, in the past?

i didn't know that there were [are] any Cistercians still extant amongst us.

> I was there in pursuit of their 4th Abbot (or was he their fifth or even
sixth ?) a lad named Astralabe ........ (ruled 1162-1164) so the occasion for
the visit was specifically mediaeval.

i assumed that it was [were].

and, perhaps even Cistercianal.

butbut, do the guys who live there now --in the present-- call themselves
Cistercian, or Trappist?

> And deeply memorable.

obviously.
 
> BMC
 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christopher Crockett" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [M-R] Medieval lighting
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> > I have also attended Compline in a Cistercian Abbey
> 
> Trappist, i assume.
> 
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