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Bernardine

the name given to the Cistercian monks, a branch of the old Benedictines, from St. Bernard, who , entering the order, gave it such an impulse considered its second that he was founder. His Order was revived in 1664 that he was considered its second by Armand Jean Bouthelier de Rance, and long flourished under the name of the Reformed Bernardines of La Trappe.

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