A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Cîteaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
A monk belonging to the religious Order of Cîteaux (Burgundy), founded in the XIth century and reformed in the XIIth by saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The Cistercian Order (VIth century).