...their tiny hand for the sacred corporal to be wrapped round it, received the cowl, and took their place as monks in the monastic community. In the first ages...Order, these children were placed on a level with their oldest brethren. They took precedence according to their date of admission, and the gray head gave...

...their tiny hand for the sacred corporal to be wrapped round it, received the cowl, and took their place as monks in the monastic community. In the first ages...Order, these children were placed on a level with their oldest brethren. They took precedence according to their date of admission, and the gray head gave...

...their tiny hand for the sacred corporal to be wrapped round it, received the cowl, and took their place as monks in the monastic community. In the first ages...Order, these children were placed on a level with their oldest brethren. They took precedence according to their date of admission, and the grey head gave...

...blood and license, and should be set apart in sacred places to pray for the kindred. The little beings, of three or four or five years old, were brought in...their admission, and the grey head gave way to them in choir and refectory, if junior to them in monastic standing They even voted in the election of Abbot,...

...their tiny hand for the sacred corporal to be wrapped round it, received the cowl, and took their place as monks in the monastic community. In the first ages...Order, these children were placed on a level with their oldest brethren. They took precedence according to their date of admission, and the grey head gave...