Cistercian Order

thumb|St. Bernard of Clairvaux, one of the most influential early Cistercians, seen here depicted in a [[historiated initial]] thumb|Vietnamese people|Vietnamese Cistercian monks standing in a [[cloister and wearing their religious habits]] The Cistercians (), or the Order of Cistercians (, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule. They are also known as Bernardines, after Sai

church in Brno-město District of South Moravian region, Czech Republic

reformed Catholic congregation of Cistercian monks founded in 1577 by Jean de la Barrière, abbot of the Cistercian monastery at Feuillans in Languedoc

The Florians, in Latin Floriacenses, were an altogether independent order during the feudal era, and not, as some consider, a branch of the Cistercians.

gestural communication used by Christian monks

abbey in Peloponnese, Greece

Indian Catholic monastery (1958-)

papal bull

religious military order