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Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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sting buildings, the abbeyof Our Lady of the Water Springs, must be allowedthe first place among similar English sights. Theobvious care now bestowed upon the preservation of allthat destroying hands have left adds in an unexpectedway to the charm which the remains of church and build-ings exert over the mind. No tree or shrub has beenallowed to grow up from within either church or cloister;no ivy clothes the walls or clings to muUion and pillar;and no scattered masonry cumbers the ground. All is inorder, as far as order is possible in such a vast ruin, andthe effect of the whitened walls and towers as seen fromafar is to add a somewhat mysterious, ghostly characterto the buildings. Over all stands out against the sky thegreat tower which forms so distinguishing a mark atFountains, and on its cornice the visitor may still read thelegend cut deep in stone: Regi soBculorum, etc., To theImmortal and Invisible King of Ages, to the only God,be honour and glory forever and ever. Amen. (112)
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w FOUNTAINS Fountains owed its existence to the movement towardsa stricter form of religious life which was initiated atCiteau in the last quarter of the eleventh century by St.Robert, and was carried to perfection by StephenHarding and St. Bernard. During the lifetime of thelatter, the Cistercians, as they were called after theirplace of origin, became established in England, and theOrder quickly took deep root. The first house in thiscountry was apparently that of Furness in Lancashire,founded by Stephen of Blois in 1127. The main objectaimed at by this branch of the Benedictine Order was tosecure the greater personal sanctification of the membersin the stricter observance of the Rule. For the purposeof developing the contemplative side of the religious lifethe Cistercians made choice of lonely valleys or othersequestered spots where they might lead a life of solitude,free from care and distracting thoughts. Hence camethe saying: Bernardus valles amabat. In Yorkshire the first found

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