#benedictine monastery

[eltonjohndenver]

Basically the idea is that Benedictine Monks and Gregorian chants were to the medieval era what the Beach Boys were to the 60s. And also that I think there should be a movie about monk drama set in the 14th century but the score is just the Beach Boys

[doubtspirit]

An abbey cellarer sneaking a drink, courtesy of the British Library, Sloane 2435, f. 44v.

[terebelli]

Ottobeuren Abbey, Germany

[postcard-from-the-past]

Benedictine Monastery of Lisieux, Normandy region of France

French vintage postcard

[theodoreangelos]

Seitenstetten Abbey church, Benedictine monastery, Lower Austria Abbatia B.M.V. Assumptae apud Seitenstetten Stiftskirche des Stifts Seitenstetten, Abtei der Benediktiner (OSB), Mostviertel, Niederösterreich L'église abbatiale de Seitenstetten, une abbaye bénédictine en Basse-Autriche Церковь Зайтенштеттенского аббатства, бенедиктинского м��настыря в Нижней Австрии

[historyofguns]

The Battle of Monte Cassino, fought between January and May 1944, was a significant WWII engagement in which the Allies attempted to break through German defenses at the Gustav Line in Italy. The line, fortified by artillery, mines, and machine gun emplacements, posed a strategic challenge for Allied forces aiming to reach Rome. The battle saw heavy casualties, with 55,000 Allied and 20,000 German losses. While the Allies eventually succeeded in capturing Monte Cassino, the decision to bomb the historic Abbey of Monte Cassino, where it was wrongly believed German forces were entrenched, remains controversial. Despite Allied victories, the abbey's destruction became propaganda for the Germans, painting the Allies as destroyers of cultural heritage. The final assault involved multiple Allied factions, such as the Polish II Corps, British XIII Corps, and US forces, who coordinated efforts with the Normandy invasion, ultimately leading to the German retreat and the Allied breakthrough in the Italian Campaign.

[revdrjamesjshowersjr]

Gregorian Chant Benedictine Monks.

So Help Them God...Amen, Ameen, Amun, Amin, Aum.

[jameslmartello]

St. Scholastica and St. Benedict, pray for us. +

[lutnistas]

Maria Laach Benedictine Abbey ( Glees / Germany )

[uchicagomagazine]

When Edward Funk, AB’92, came to UChicago as a music major, “I thought I was going to be a rock star,” he says. Funk’s band OM performed at Beat Kitchen, Double Door, Morseland, and Schubas, and had a regular slot at Phyllis’ Musical Inn. But then ... Read about life in a Benedictine monastery: https://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/obedience-silence-humility

Portrait courtesy Douglas C. Anderson, AB’89, JD’92

[lidathedefiant]

After much research on the Plan of St. Gall and Benedictine monastic life, I have completed the first floor of the monastery as it would've looked during its height of operations, roughly 200 years, give or take, before Lida et al. find it on their travels. I will be making another floor plan showing it in ruins.

Something to note is that this is where they encounter the terror-feeder, because the Northern Reaches really was the gods' DeviantArt page. Though I modeled this on Christian monastic life, the experiences of these monks are fundamentally different and far less ascetic so I made some fundamental changes.

Let me take you through some of the design choices I made!

Directional focus is the Overlook of the Gods, so southwest. The cathedral points in that direction as do both chapels.

Original Benedictine monasteries had very limited access points to the inner sanctum. I modified this with a few extras, but I still maintained some separation between the acolytes and monks.

Which leads me to the big main storage room. This was actually a surprising distance from the kitchens in the Plan of St. Gall.

The original kitchen had no outside access, iirc, but was separated from the main building by a hallway. I maintained this here, as it was a pragmatic and not religious decision; kitchen fires wiped out a hell of a lot of monasteries and abbeys before they moved the building off. Now they still maintained zero outside kitchen access, condemning anyone trapped in the kitchen to death, but I digress.

Monasteries were fully self-sufficient. This bad boy would’ve had crops and livestock and breweries. I did not want to design all that out because it would be gone by the time Lisa et al. arrive, but I did keep chambers for the brothers-in-service.

This place would have had an old men’s rest home to account for. Remember, part of the reason this monastery is so popular and well-maintained is because there’s too many men born in the Northern Reaches. (Don’t ask me why, I’m working on it.) So they would’ve had services for old impoverished men who couldn’t marry and had no families. I’m giving them three men assigned to the role and then an additional six that are cycled through the ranks to fulfill the mitzvah (for lack of a better word) of caring for others.

I eliminated the Benedictine conversation rooms, as Lida monks are free to talk, but kept the warming room out of practicality. It would be prohibitively costly to maintain fires everywhere. In monasteries that had dormitories, monks typically slept over the warming room, which will happen here. But unlike the ascetic Benedictines, I’ve given the brothers-in-service and others sleeping in beds far from the warming room little furnaces.

The conservatory is also not a traditional Benedictine room. My boyfriend asked the question of whether the era (roughly modeled on the Middle Ages) would’ve had such tech, which is absolutely valid, but the gods gave them a lot of knowledge. Also, greenhouses in general date back to 30 AD, when the Romans did it before it was cool.

Now we get to the big question: what the hell is up with the arcana rooms? Well, I may have jumped the shark. In constructing this on Inkarnate, I saw they had summoning circles, and I wondered, what if they had been practicing forbidden magic? Not magic outlawed by the Magisterium, but the one form of magic outlawed by the gods? What if they had accidentally summoned the terror-feeder from cryo underneath the Overlook of the Gods and this was their downfall?

I don’t have all the answers yet and I have a whole second floor to build before I can demolish it, but it’s interesting to think about and damn this was fun to make.

[tomirovira]

SANT PERE DE BURGAL II

[postcard-from-the-past]

Terrace of the former Benedictine monastery the Banz Abbey, Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard

[vox-anglosphere]

Evesham's Clergy House survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries

[unproduciblesmackdown]

interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:

The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting. Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.

the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"

[eopederson3]

Irisches Benediktinerkloster in Regensburg (heute Schottenkloster genannt) - [Irish Benedictine Monastery in Regensburg (Now called Scots Monastery)]

"The Scots Monastery (in German Schottenkirche, Schottenkloster or Schottenstift) is the former Benedictine Abbey of St James (Jakobskirche) in Regensburg, Germany. It was founded in the 11th century by Irish missionaries and for most of its history was in the hands of first Irish, then Scottishmonks. In Middle Latin, Scotti meant Gaels, not differentiating Ireland from Scotland, so that the term Schottenstift dates from the Irish period."

Rather off the route pilgrims would be expected to take from Ireland to Santiago, the Benedictine monastery was an important place for Irish and Scottish Catholics after the Reformation and the subsequent suppression of the Roman church in the Celtic lands. It was also the continental starting point for Irish pilgrims to Santiago and to Rome.