Documents & Publications

A small library of foundational texts.

The Rule, the Constitutions and the documents of the monastery’s own story.

The Rule of St. Benedict

Written c. 530 AD by St. Benedict of Nursia: seventy-three chapters on the practical and spiritual life of the monks.

The governing documents of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance.

The foundational constitutional document of the Cistercian Order.

The early account of the founding of the New Monastery at Cîteaux.

Document files are added as the monastery supplies each text and confirms permission to distribute it.