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    Britannica (9th ed.) article Olivetans. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Olivetans". Monte Oliveto Maggiore (in Italian)...
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    religious habits, in contrast to other Benedictine orders such as the Olivetans, who wear white. They were founded in 529 by Benedict of Nursia, a 6th-century...
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  • Pierre Robert Olivetan/Olivétan (c. 1506 – 1538), a Waldensian by faith[citation needed], was the first translator of the Bible into the French language...
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    Benedictine community, then passed to the Cluniacs and then in 1373 to the Olivetans, who still run it. The monks make famous liqueurs, honey and herbal teas...
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    the beginning of the reign of King James", and "The Geneva French" (i.e. Olivétan). Hobbes advances detailed critical arguments why the Vulgate rendering...
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  • Dominicans, Franciscans, Hieronymites, Jesuits, Minims, Piarists, Salesians, Olivetans, Theatines, Trappists and the Visitandines. Several religious orders evolved...
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  • Maggiore, with cathedral see in Siena, seat of the abbot-general of the Olivetans (a Benedictine congregation) formerly the Territorial Abbey of San Paolo...
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    founded the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin of Monte Oliveto (the Olivetans), giving it the Rule of St. Benedict. The purpose of the new religious...
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    of St. Frances of Rome Tor de' Specchi Monastery Order of St. Benedict Olivetans Saint Frances of Rome, patron saint archive Life of St. Frances on the...
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    worship openly in French. The French Bible, translated by Pierre Robert Olivétan with the help of Calvin and published at Neuchâtel in 1535, was based in...
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