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The Order, or congregation, of Tiron was founded about 1106 by Benedictine Bernard De Ponthieu , also known as Bernard d'Abbeville ( 1046 - 1117 ); he was born in a small village near Abbeville , the chief town of the province of Ponthieu . As a pre-Cistercian reformer, Bernard's intention was to restore the asceticism and strict observance of the Rule Of St. Benedict , insisting on manual labour, in monastic life. Tonsured at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Cyprien in , future founder of the controversial Abbey Of Fontevraud , and Vitalis De Mortain , would found the Trappist congregation of Savigny in 1113 (a small Benedictine order of strict observance that would be forced to join the Cistercian Order in 1147 ). In the example of the Desert Fathers , all three men and their followers (men and women) lived detached from the world, in great poverty and strict penance. However, there is strong evidence suggesting that following their retreat into the forest, Bernard, Robert and Vitalis were following the Celtic Rite , independently of and in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church , and under the protection of the Duchy Of Bretagne . Within less than 5 years of its creation, the Order of Tiron owned 117 priories and abbeys in France , England , Scotland and Ireland . In Scotland, the Tironensians were the monks and master craftsmen who built and occupied (until the Reformation ) the abbeys of Selkirk ( 1113 ), Kelso ( 1128 ), Arbroath ( 1178 ), and Kilwinning ( 1140 +), the legendary birthplace of Freemasonry . In France, the Order was integrated into the new Benedictine congregation of St. Maur in 1627 . REFERENCES
The supposed dichotomy between the celtic church and the catholic church is largely a later gloss by prebyterian historiographers to legitimise the destruction and iconoclasm later called the reformation. Monks who followed the celtic foundations of Colmcille, Ninian, AIden et al had no doctrinal differences with the catholic church - merely discipline issues and historic cultural differences. The local 'cultus sanctorem dei' (i.e. local saints days and observances) are recognised within the catholic tradition. |
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