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Cistercian clothing: footnotes
1. They especially favour white
in their habit and thereby seem remarkable and conspicuous to
others. Black represents humility in many places in Holy Scripture;
therefore up to now monks in their devotion have chosen to wear
that colour. Now, however, as if to make a show of righteousness,
the men of our time reject black which the earlier fathers always
adopted as a mark of humility.
[Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical
History of Orderic Vitalis, ed. and tr. M. Chibnall (6
vols., Oxford, 1969-80),
IV, pp. 311-13 (VIII: 26). Orderic, a monk of St Evroul,
Normandy, was writing c. 1135.]
2. J. M. Canivez, Statuta Capitulorum
Generalium Ordinis ab anno 1116 ad anno 1786 8 vols (Louvain,
1933-41), I:
1191:12.
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