Word: cistercian
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...such as caramelized lemon tart and dark chocolate pudding with orange curd ice cream ensure that everyone goes home happy. You could - if you had to - enjoy the Star even if you didn't try the food. A 14th century stone building, the pub was originally a hostelry for Cistercian monks. These days, a more luxurious mood is created by a dark bowed-beam and plank ceiling, stone flagstones, and locally-made dark wood furniture around a fine log fire. In keeping with the pub's rustic feel, Pern serves food that's in season: fish in the summer...
...century by St. Honorat. Five hundred monks were massacred in 782 by Saracen pirates, who frequently conducted raids until a fortified monastery jutting out into the sea was built in 1073. Both island and monastery changed hands numerous times before they were turned over to the current order of Cistercian monks...
...powerful, diffuse movement. It revolved obsessively around the issue of Catalan independence. It embraced politics, social theory, poetry, architecture. It was both progressive and intensely nostalgic. It believed in the future; it also drew its confidence from invoking the vanished era of the Catalan counts, the troubadours, the Cistercian monasteries...
...inevitably proved premature. The first Christians thought he would return to earth within their lifetime. As the Goths decimated imperial legions in the 4th century, St. Ambrose of Milan saw the Antichrist among the pagan invaders and proclaimed that the end of the world was nigh. A 12th century Cistercian abbot, Joachim of Flora, was quite precise: the Age of the Spirit, which he saw as the culmination of human history, would begin between A.D. 1200 and 1260. William Miller, the Baptist layman who founded the Adventist movement in America, was sure that the Second Coming would take place...
...tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...