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The sources of English monastic life in the rule of Saint Benedict, and those who have embraced the rule: family tree. Etching by W. Hollar, 1655.

Five Benedictine saints: Saint Benedict, Saint Scholastica, Saint Justina, Saint Maurus, and Saint Placidus. Etching by Anna Jameson.

Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.

Relics, apocalypse, and the deceits of history : Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 / Richard Landes.

English Benedictine libraries : the shorter catalogues / edited by R. Sharpe [and others].

Die Benediktiner in der Medizin des frühen Mittelalters / [Heinrich Schipperges].

Reflexiones theologico-canonico-medicas, sobre el ayuno eclesiastico, que establecen su practica, despues de los breves de Nuestro Santissimo Padre Benedicto XIV. Divididas en dos partes: la primera apomathema, en favor de su observancia: la segunda apologema, contra la sarcophagia, presente el precepto ... / Escritas (y es el octavo tomo de sus obras) por el R.P.M. Don Antonio Joseph Rodriguez.

The book of saints : a dictionary of servants of God canonised by the Catholic Church extracted from the Roman and other martyrologies / compiled by the Benedictine monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate.

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Benedictines

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The book of saints : a dictionary of servants of God canonised by the Catholic Church extracted from the Roman and other martyrologies / compiled by the Benedictine monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate.

Benedictines

Images referencing Benedictines

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The book of saints : a dictionary of servants of God canonised by the Catholic Church extracted from the Roman and other martyrologies / compiled by the Benedictine monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate.

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