Origin of Monachism, [206]; Miracles of Monks, [207]; Philosophy of Monkery, [207]; Motives for Monks, [208]; Weak Side of, [208]; St. Benedict, [209]; The Reformers of Monkery, [209]; Early Difficulties, [210]; Advice to Monks, [211]; A Monk Denounces Ferocity, [211]; Making the Monks Work, [212]; Improvements, [212]; Monk at Court, [213]; Monks First Drinking Wine, [214]; Charlemagne about Monks, [214]; Leaving Court to be Monk, [215]; Monk going to Court, [215]; The Reason of so many Monasteries, [216]; Life in a Convent, [216]; A Day’s life in Monastery, [217]; Routine of English Monks, [218]; Arrangements of an Abbey, [218]; Monks and Friars, [219]; Friars and Priests, [220]; Enmity between Monks, [220]; Monks Disliked by Clergy, [220]; Monk who Wanted to be an Angel, [221]; Death of Abbess at Aries, [221]; Cædmon, Monk Poet, [222]; Monk Sleeping too long, [223]; Abbot lecturing his Monks, [223]; The War of the two Abbots, [224]; Monks and Gregorian Chant, [225]; Those who Pillage Monks, [225]; Monks to Live Frugally, [226]; Monk’s Burial, [227]; Sick Monks, [227]; Monks Honour Rich Men, [228]; Good Lessons of the Monks, [229]; Pope Inviting a Fellow Monk, [229]; Order of Friars, [230]; Cinderella of the Convent, [230]; Nuns at Sempringham, [231]; Compunctious Visitings of Monks, [232]; Monkery Worked Out, [232]; War of the Nuns of Basle, [233]; Stealing another Monk’s Food, [234]; Monks Deciding on Creeds, [234]; Monk Interceding for Prisoners, [235]; How Carthusians Acquired a Site, [235]; Luther at his Old Convent, [236]; Monks and Polite Letters, [236]; Literature about Saints, [237]; Scriptorium in St. Gall, [237]; Beautiful Manuscripts, [238]; Penmanship of Monks, [239]; Monasteries as Museums, [239]; Embroidery of Nuns, [240]; Monks at Missal Painting, [241]; Music and Illuminating, [241].
PROSELYTISING MONKS AND PREACHERS.
Nun Converts the Iberians, [243]; Fourth-century Missionary, [243]; Sermon by St. Patrick, [244]; Monk Warding Off Locusts, [244]; First Planting the Cross in England, [245]; Pope Gregory and England, [246]; Impression on Saxon King, [247]; Methodius Preaching, [247]; Apostle of Switzerland, [248]; St. Eligius, [248]; Anschar the Apostle, [249]; St. Neot, Cornish Saint, [250]; Conversion of Russia, [251]; Bishop Otto, [251]; Norbert and Clerical Vices, [252]; Fulk, [252]; St. Dominic’s Zeal, [253]; St. Francis of Assisium, [254]; St. Francis tending the Lepers, [254]; The Stigmata of St. Francis, [255]; Biography of St. Francis, [256]; St. Antony of Padua, [256]; English Friars Disdained Shoes, [257]; Raimund Lull, [258]; St. Ignatius of Loyola, [259]; St. Vincent de Paul, [260]; Mediæval Missionaries, [261]; Friar Startling Judges, [261]; The Schoolmen, [262]; Friars on Useless Ornaments, [262]; Friar on Fashionable Vices, [263]; Denouncing Female Headdresses, [263]; Savonarola, [264].
FAMOUS MONKS AND MONASTERIES.
A Monk with a Genius for Monkery, [266]; St. Ninian, the Scottish Saint, [267]; St. Mungo, [267]; Monk Absenting Himself from Prayers, [268]; Death of St. Benedict, [269]; St. Columba of Iona, [269]; Death of St. Columba, [270]; The Monk Columban, [271]; St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, [272]; St. Chad, [273]; St. Hilda, Abbess, [274]; The Abbey and Monks of St. Gall, [274]; The Venerable Bede, Monk and Historian, [275]; St. Cuthbert Admitted Monk, [275]; The Body of St. Cuthbert, [277]; Deathbed of Venerable Bede, [278]; A Warrior Duke becomes Monk, [280]; The Swiss Abbey of Einsiedeln, [281]; St. Meinrad, a Monk of the Alps, [282]; Croyland Abbey Burnt, [283]; Nuns of Coldingham, [283]; Monks of Cluny, [281]; St. Dunstan, Archbishop, [285]; Monks of St. Bernard, [285]; Chancellor becomes Monk, [286]; Deathbed of Abbot Turketel, [286]; Monk Nilus, [287]; Monastery of Bec, [289]; Fire at Crowland Abbey, [290]; Monks of Vallombrosa, [291]; A Monk Transcriber of Holy Books, [292]; A Monk Musician, [293]; Training of Monk Bishop, [293]; Monk Abelard and Nun Heloïse, [294]; Abelard and St. Bernard, [295]; Abelard’s Last Days, [295]; Order of Carthusians, [296]; Order of Cistercians, [297]; St. Bernard as a Young Monk, [297]; St. Bernard as Abbot, [298]; St. Bernard’s Miracles, [298]; Bernard and his Sister, [299]; Bernard and Peter the Venerable, [300]; Schoolmen of Middle Ages, [301]; Deathbed of Abbot, [302]; Visions of Sister Hildegard, [302]; Travelling to Rome, [303]; Portrait of Abbot Sampson of St. Edmundsbury, [304]; Monks Rebuilding their Altar, [305]; Abbot Harassed with Cares, [306]; Annoyed at Visit of the Legate, [307]; Deathbed of Princess, [308]; Stealing St. Antony’s Psalm Book, [308]; Monk for a King, [309]; Elizabeth of Hungary, [310]; Panic among Saracens, [310]; Fancies of the Starved Monk, [311]; Monasteries of Mount Athos, [312]; Monks of La Trappe, [312]; Certosa Monastery, [313]; Catherine of Siena, [314]; Monks of Lucca, [314]; Thomas à Kempis, [315]; Peter of Alcantara, [316]; Visions of St. Theresa, [317]; The Emperor Monk, [318]; Emperor Monk’s Dress, [319]; His Apartments, [319]; Detestation of Heretics, [320]; Interest in Clock-making, [321]; His Confessor, [321]; His Choir, [322]; At Dinner-time, [323]; He Celebrates his own Funeral, [323]; Funeral Sermon on Emperor Monk, [324].
SOME BISHOPS, KINGS, POPES, AND INQUISITORS.