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Understanding the Benedictine Tradition

This quiz aims to test knowledge of the Benedictine order, its history, significant figures, and cultural representations, promoting a deeper understanding of this Christian monastic tradition.

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1 Mechitarist Order of the ________

2 Gregory's in Somerset (________) and St.

3 The Benedictine order has been brought to public attention by the ________ novels, a series of murder mysteries by Edith Pargeter writing under the name Ellis Peters.

4 Such orders include the Congregation of Cluny, the ________, and the Trappists.

5 The current ________ Primate of the global Benedictine Confederation of the Order of St.

6 This led to the formation in modern times of the ________.

7 A Benedictine abbey provides the setting for a murder mystery in medieval Europe in the book ________ by Umberto Eco.

8 Benedictine communities are primarily found in the ________ but several Benedictine communities exist within other Christian communities, though small in number.

9 The stories were also made into a television series starring ________.

10 [4][5] Since the ________ there has also been a modest flourishing of Benedictine monasticism in the Anglican Church and Protestant Churches.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway (pictured).
  • the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa.
  • the village of Lamberley in Northumberland, England has on display a bell from a small convent of Benedictine nuns that was devastated by William Wallace in 1296.
  • one Prior of Ecclesfield (priory pictured), near Sheffield in England, was accused by Benedictine authorities of "embezzlement of the priory's goods" and of living an "evil life".
  • St. Trudpert's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War.
  • Noella Marcellino, a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese, was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut's Abbey of Regina Laudis.
  • Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, Georgia, was designed by a Benedictine Monk and architect from Belmont Abbey.
  • Hugh Candidus (c.1095 – c.1160), a Benedictine monk, wrote a history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation as Medeshamstede in the mid 7th century up to the 12th century.
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