Benedictines
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Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.
Baluze (1693), I, p. 845. This would indicate that the two successful candidates were both Benedictines.
He protested his profound esteem for the Benedictines of Cluny whom he declared he loved equally as well as the other religious orders.
He died at the base of the main altar 10 July 1086, where he was buried by the Benedictines.
He returned to London in 1924, but in 1925 often visited Gill at Capel-y-ffin and the Benedictines at Caldey Island, and in the same year did illustrations for Gulliver's Travels for the Golden Cockerel Press.
Foremost were the Benedictines whose great abbey churches vastly outnumbered any others in France and England.