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13206	Wishart, Alfred Wesley	A Short History of Monks and Monasteries			.txt	text/plain	88926	5182	69	He lived between the years 390 and 459 A.D. He was a shepherd's son, but at an early age entered a monastery. Much more might be said of monastic life in Rome, were it not now Benedict of Nursia, there were monks and monasteries in Great Britain. a man who infused new life into the monastic body. his holy office, he sought to reform the church in its spirit and life. belief between the early British monks and the Pope of Rome; that St. Patrick, of Ireland, and St. Columba, of Scotland, were loyal sons of The Christian church set up an ideal of life which it was impossible to It may be true that in the early days of monasticism the monks pursued of these orders commenced their monastic life in monasteries, and were of the monastic ideal, but there were individual monks whose views of	./cache/13206.txt	./txt/13206.txt