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VALLOMBROSIANS

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 864 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
VALLOMBROSIANS , an order of monks under the
Benedictine
 
rule
 , founded by St John Gualbert in 1038. He was son of a Florentine nobleman, and became first a
Benedictine
  and then a Camaldulian. Finally, about 1030, he withdrew to
Vallombrosa
 , a shady dale on the side of a
mountain
  in the Apennines, ro m. from Florence, and for some years led a completely solitary.
life
 . Disciples, however, gathered around him, and he formed them into an order in which the cenobitical and the eremitical lives should be combined. The monks lived in a monastery, not in
separate
  huts like the Camaldulians, and the Benedictine
rule
  was the basis of the
life
 ; but the contemplative side was strongly emphasized, and every
element
  of Benedictine life was eliminated that could be supposed to interrupt the attention of the mind to Godeven
manual
  labour. The Vallombrosians spread in Italy and France, but they never had more than sixty houses. They now have three, with some sixty monks in all. The habit was originally grey, but it became black; and the life also has been assimilated to that of the Benedictines. There were some convents of Vallombrosian nuns.
See
Helyot
 , Histoire des Ordres religieux (1718), v. cc. 28, 29; Max Heimbucher, Orden u. Kongregationen (1907), I. 44. (E. C. B.)


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