Word: cistercians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof of his penitence, Alfonso transformed the royal summer palace at Burgos' Las Huelgas del Rey into a cloister administered by the white-robed Order of Cistercian nuns. The cloister, Alfonso decreed, would also be the burial site for the dead of the House of Castile; the first of the royal bodies, that of baby Prince Sancho, was entombed there...
...sitting up or falling out haphazardly, valuables gone. The shocked nuns hastily replaced the bodies as best they could, and without outside help replaced the heavy lids of the sarcophagi. For another century the royal dead of Las Huelgas remained, unseen and forgotten, in the custody of the pious Cistercian sisters...
...front lines. . . . We learned about night patrols and fear, and a lot of us learned about prayer. I think that was when I decided on my vocation to the Cistercian life, lying in a shallow foxhole listening to a boy mumble 'O Lord! O Lord' as the shells screamed overhead and exploded. ... I realized my faith wasn't so strong, neither was my confidence nor my love. So I prayed to Our Lady to spare me, and promised her to join the Cistercians to learn to love...
There 80-odd scholarly Europeans and Americans had a marvelous time. For Mount Holyoke, long a home of ultra-serious-minded education, was trying earnestly to take the place of Burgundy's 12th-Century Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until 1939 a sort of Chautauqua for Europe's top-drawer intellectuals...
Rebirth at South Hadley. With Desjardins dead and his abbey reported restored to the Cistercian monks (who had sold it in the early 1900s), Mount Holyoke's crisp, French-fluent Professor Helen Elizabeth Patch last year suggested that her old Sorbonne master, Gustave Cohen, and fellow refugees of New York's Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes might enjoy some summer days at her college...