"Abridged treatise on God's Will (...)" by a monk of La Trappe Abbey.
Published by Rusand & Cie in Lyon during the year MDCCCV (1805).
190 pages, 15 x 9 x 1.5 cm.
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The Trappists, officially
known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict
Observance (Latin: Ordo Cisterciensis
Strictioris Observantiae, abbreviated as OCSO) and
originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady
of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious
order of cloistered monastics that branched off
from the Cistercians. They follow the Rule of Saint
Benedict and have communities of both monks and nuns that
are known as Trappists and Trappistines, respectively. They are named
after La Trappe Abbey, the monastery from which the movement and
religious order originated. The movement first began with the reforms
that Abbot Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé introduced
in 1664, later leading to the creation of Trappist congregations,
and eventually the formal constitution as a separate religious order
in 1892.
La Trappe
Abbey, also known as La Grande Trappe, is
a monastery in Soligny-la-Trappe, Orne, France.
It is known for being the house of origin of the Trappists, to
whom it gave its name. The site of the famous La Trappe Abbey was for
centuries isolated in a valley surrounded by forests, streams and
lakes, 9 miles from Mortagne and 84 miles from Paris,
in the Diocese of Séez and the former province
of Normandy. It began as a small oratory chapel to the Virgin
Mary, built in 1122 by Rotrou III, Count of Perche, as a
memorial to his wife Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche. (An
illegitimate daughter of Henry I, she drowned in the White
Ship disaster of 1120.) A few years later Rotrou built
a monastery adjoining, which he offered to the monks of Le
Breuil-Benoît Abbey near Dreux, a house of the Order
of Savigny. The order was highly respected at that time for its
fervour and holiness. In 1140 the monastery of La Trappe was raised
to the status of abbey. In 1147 Savigny Abbey, with all its
affiliated monasteries, was united to the Cistercian Order. From
that time onwards, La Trappe was a Cistercian abbey, immediately
subordinate to the abbot of Clairvaux. After years of
prosperity, La Trappe suffered during the Hundred Years' War. It
was in the path of both the English and French armies. The monks were
forced to abandon the monastery, which was burnt and pillaged in 1376
and again in 1465. In the 16th century, after the reconstruction, the
abbey, in common with many other monasteries, was given to a series
of absentee abbots in commendam. The lack of leadership
depressed its fortunes. The 14th commendatory abbot, installed in
1662, Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, godson of Cardinal
Richelieu, proved to be La Trappe's greatest leader. De Rancé
experienced a religious conversion which led him to take his
responsibilities seriously. He became abbot in fact as well as in
name. From 1664 La Trappe was the centre of a thorough reform of the
Cistercian Order, led by de Rancé. The reform movement took the name
of the abbey and became renowned as an order. Bossuet, a friend of de
Rancé, was a frequent visitor at La Trappe. James II of
England came here while a refugee in France. The
distinguished Benedictine scholar, Dom Jean Mabillon,
after his long quarrels with de Rancé,[6] visited him here to
make peace.