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The monastery is generally a small community of hermits based on the model of the 4th-century Lauras of Palestine. A Carthusian monastery consists of a number of individual cells built around a cloister. The individual cells are organised so that the door of each cell comes off a large corridor. The focus of Carthusian life is contemplation.
This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, or charterhouses, containing both extant and dissolved monasteries of the Carthusians (also known as the Order of Saint Bruno) for monks and nuns, arranged by location under their present countries. Also listed are ancillary establishments (distilleries, printing houses) and the "houses of refuge" used ...
In 1084, Saint Hugh gave it to hermit Saint Bruno and his followers who founded the Carthusian Order. The recipe of the alcoholic beverage Chartreuse is said to have been given to the monks of Grande Chartreuse in 1605 [1] by the French Marshal François Annibal d'Estrées. For over a century, the monks worked on perfecting the 130-ingredient ...
1.4 Carthusians. 1.5 Cistercians. 1.6 Dominicans. 1.7 Franciscans. 1.8 Premonstratensians. ... This is a list of Christian monasteries and religious houses in France, ...
Pages in category "Carthusian monasteries in France" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The monastery was built for twenty-four choir monks, instead of the usual twelve in a Carthusian house, [2] and two more were endowed to celebrate the birth in 1433 of Charles the Bold. [7] These lived semi-hermitic lives in their individual small houses when not in the chapel.
Chartreuse of Liget was a monastery of hermit-monks of the Carthusians order in France, founded in 1178 [note 1] in Touraine by Henry II, Count of Anjou and King of England, in atonement for the murder of Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury) committed on his command.
Grande Chartreuse. A charterhouse (French: chartreuse; German: Kartause; Italian: certosa; Portuguese: cartuxa; Spanish: cartuja) is a monastery of Carthusian monks. The English word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French word chartreuse [1] and it is therefore sometimes misunderstood to indicate that the houses were created by charter, a grant of legal rights by a high authority.