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    The Olivetans, formally known as the Order of Our Lady of Mount Olivet, are a monastic order. They were founded in 1313 and recognised in 1344. They use...
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  • Pierre Robert Olivetan/Olivétan (c. 1506 – 1538), a Waldensian by faith[citation needed], was the first translator of the Bible into the French language...
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    remain obscure. Since the painting was brought to the Uffizi from the Olivetan monastery San Bartolomeo, scholars have suggested that it might have been...
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    habits. Not all Benedictines wear black, however, with some like the Olivetans wearing white. They were founded by Benedict of Nursia, a 6th-century...
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    Tuscany and one of the most scenic churches in Italy. There is an adjoining Olivetan monastery, seen to the right of the basilica when ascending the stairs...
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  • Lyon, éditions Olivétan, 2004 Sur le seuil. Les protestants au défi du témoignage, Lyon, Olivétan, 2005 A l’Église qui vient, Lyon, Olivétan, 2017 Du zapping...
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    the beginning of the reign of King James", and "The Geneva French" (i.e. Olivétan). Hobbes advances detailed critical arguments why the Vulgate rendering...
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    worship openly in French. The French Bible, translated by Pierre Robert Olivétan with the help of Calvin and published at Neuchâtel in 1535, was based in...
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    was succeeded by his son Ferdinand II of Naples. Alfonso went into an Olivetan monastery at Mazara del Vallo, on Sicily, where he survived until 18 December...
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    Assumption of Mary, she founded the Olivetan Oblates of Mary, a confraternity of pious women, under the authority of the Olivetan monks of the Abbey of Santa...
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  • Maggiore, with cathedral see in Siena, seat of the abbot-general of the Olivetans (a Benedictine congregation) formerly the Territorial Abbey of San Paolo...
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    Sainte-Marie de la Résurrection d'Abu Gosh) is a monastery run by the Olivetan Benedictine order in Abu Ghosh, Israel. Its church is built on the foundations...
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    Regular. Since January 2016, the occupants are a community of monks of the Olivetan Benedictine order. A tributary of the river Orcia, the Starcia, runs near...
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    prophecies generally try to draw a connection between Benedict and the Olivetan order to explain this motto: Benedict's choice of papal name is after Saint...
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    grave situation, the bishop decided to transfer the foundation to the Olivetan Benedictine Congregation, which offered the assurance of completing the...
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    Luberon region, sought to join Farel, Calvin and the Reformation, and Olivétan published a French Bible for them. The French Confession of 1559 shows...
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  • medieval Italian historian Bernard Tolomeo (1272–1348), founder of the Olivetan Roman Tolomeo Gallio (1527–1607), an Italian cardinal Tolomeo Faccendi...
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    Laurence Freeman, OSB, a student of John Main and a Benedictine monk of the Olivetan Congregation. Main taught a way of meditation that was based on the parallels...
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  • Santa Francesca Romana in the Roman Forum; this work was commissioned by Olivetan monks from a monastery adjacent to the church. Milizia, Francesco (1797)...
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    monks from the Olivetan monastery of San Benedetto fuori della mura. In turn, in the 19th-century pope Gregory XVI replace the Olivetans with Camaldolese...
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    medieval Italian historian Bernard Tolomeo (1272–1348), founder of the Olivetan Roman Tolomeo Gallio (1527–1607), an Italian cardinal Tolomeo Faccendi...
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    1948 the site was re-established as the Abbaye de Notre-Dame du Bec by Olivetan monks led by Dom Grammont, who effected some restorations. The abbey is...
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    church at this site, outside of the city walls, was rebuilt in 1432 by the Olivetan order. The church was then acquired by an Augustinian order of Friars,...
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    pictures are located in the cloister and refectory of the monastery of the Olivetan Fathers at Quarto, near Genoa. He was the son of a certain Lombarduccio...
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    of the island are the church of Saint Giuliano and Saint Secondo, the Olivetans’ Monastery of Saint Anthony, and the Medieval fortress. The Garden of...
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  • Secondo Lancellotti (category Olivetan Order)
    Olivetan monk and scholar, one of the leading figures in the early Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Born in Perugia, he entered the Olivetans...
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    she was fully introduced into the field in 1740 by Ramiro Rampinelli, an Olivetan monk who was one of the most notable Italian mathematicians of that time...
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  • Tolomei (1272–1348), Catholic saint, Italian theologian and founder of the Olivetans Bernard of Vienne (778–842), Catholic saint, French bishop of Vienne 810–842...
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    included in the 2nd edition. The French Bible (1535) of Pierre Robert Olivétan placed them between the Testaments, with the subtitle, "The volume of the...
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    since 1170. In 1339, commissioned by the Bishop Ranuccio Allegretti, an Olivetan monastery was built atop the old etruscan walls on this site. They remained...
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