10B Study Questions for Ch 3 of HTCCBWC
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  1. Chapter 3: 1. What Gospel principle did the monks apply to their daily lives which enabled them to play a critical role in the development of Western civilization?
    2. Name and define the two types of monasticism that developed in the Church.
    (hint: anchoritic and cenobitic monasticism)
    3. What was the difference in the they practiced the monastic life between the Irish monasteries and the Benedictines?
    4. How many and times when has the mother house of the Benedictines at Monte Cassino, Italy been destroyed and rebuilt?
    5. What kind of work is expressly called for in the Rule of Saint Benedict?
    6. Why did the monks of England usually occupy the most uncultivated and uninhabited land? What did they do to the land?
    7. Name three technological achievements of the Benedictine monks of France?
    8. What kinds of industrial technology did the Cistercian monks develop and diffuse throughout Europe?
    9. Describe four of the agricultural achievements that the monks developed?
    10. What alcoholic drinks did the monks produce? Which one did they invent?
    11. Name four ways in which the monks practiced charitable works of mercy?
    12. What role did the monks play in the preservation and transmission of secular and religious literature?
    13. How was the Bible preserved and transmitted to us?







Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX