title: St. Benedict's Rule For Monasteries
author: Dom Cuthbert Butler
description: A handy, pocket sized edition of St. Benedict's Rule with sections dated so that the Rule may be read three times a year.
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  # The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin
  
  
  ### Anonymous
  
  
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  The Abbey of Fitz-Martin had been once famous for its riches and
  
  
  grandeur, and, as a monastery, was dedicated to St Catherine; but the
  
  
  subsequent irregularity of its order, together with the despotic
  
  
  tyranny of one of its ancient lords, had stripped it by slow but sure
  
  
  degrees of all its former wealth and consequence; insomuch, that the
  
  
  haughty Baron had, under unjust pretences, demanded heavy
  
  
  contributions, to assist in carrying on the war between the first
  
  
  Edward and the nearly subdued Scots. His only excuse for such an open
  
  
  violation of ecclesiastic rights, was grounded on a discovery he
  
  
  pretended he had made, of one of the nuns having broken the sacred
  
  
  rules of her profession, by a disregard to her vows of vestal
  
  
  celibacy. The haughty Baron seized greedily this circumst