Posted on 10/18/2017 5:50:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
Himmerod Abbey was founded by St Bernard of Clairvaux, but closed due to lack of vocations
A Cistercian monastery that’s existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks.
The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, had just six resident monks before the closure that was decided this week, down from about 30 monks in the 1970s.
German news agency dpa on Saturday quoted the monastery’s head, Abbot Johannes, as saying the financial situation and especially the small number of monks had played a key role in the decision.
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Very good on Star Trek, which I don’t know much about, especially in detail. That said, I’d rather know when the plague actually hit. Do you know if the mistake was deliberate, and if so, why?
1200 is at the beginning of the rise of the Mendicant Orders (primarily the Franciscans and the Dominicans) which marks a diversifying of options for the religiously inclined. This increase in diversity coupled with the drop in population a century and a half later favours the earlier part of the window, but pretty well ensures that at no point after the window do the numbers reach those of the glory days.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Requiem_for_Methuselah_(episode)
Do you know if the mistake was deliberate, and if so, why?
Probably a goof.
That said, I’d rather know when the plague actually hit.
Wikipedia is your friend.
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Wikipedia is your friend.
A good Western Civ course in 10th grade is an even better friend.
Plato rightly feared that writing would lead to much forgetting—I’d love to hear his reflections on the net.
A good Western Civ course in 10th grade is an even better friend.
I had good history classes, and have done a lot of reading on the subject since - but unfortunately, like most people, my memory is not eidetic. Fifty years later, Wikipedia is a good friend and a necessary support tool for an aging memory that can't be sure whether Mr. Gash in 8th-grade World History mumbled "1334" or "1376."
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