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Our Lady Porta Caeli — Cistercian Monastery

Documents & Publications

A small library of foundational texts.

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

The letter of handover from Chief Sir Anthony Ifeanyichukwu Ezenna, 1 January 2007.
The letter of the Bishop of Orlu concerning the monastery.
A document of the monastery’s founding history.
The early account of the founding of the New Monastery at Cîteaux.
The foundational constitutional document of the Cistercian Order.
The governing documents of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance.
Written c. 530 AD by St. Benedict of Nursia: seventy-three chapters on the practical and spiritual life of the monks.

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