* Christian of Oliva, a 13th-century Cistercian monk

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.

The 13th-century Cistercian monk and chronicler Peter of Vaux de Cernay claimed it was part of Catharist belief that the earthly Jesus Christ had a relationship with Mary Magdalene, described as his concubine.

He became a Cistercian monk and left the countryside to study at the University of Paris.

He became a monk early in life, either as a Cistercian in Laon, or a Benedictine at Monte Cassino.

Under the guidance of Geoffrey of Ainai, a monk sent from Clairvaux, the group learned how to celebrate the seven Canonical Hours and were shown how to construct wooden buildings in accordance with Cistercian practice.

A collection of fables in Latin prose based partly on Romulus and given a strong medieval and clerical tinge was made c. 1200 by the Cistercian monk Odo of Cheriton.

Villehardouin's account is generally read alongside that of Robert of Clari, a French knight of low station, Niketas Choniates, a high-ranking Byzantine official and historian who gives an eyewitness account, and Gunther of Pairis, a Cistercian monk who tells the story from the perspective of Abbot Martin who accompanied the Crusaders.

** Thomas Merton, 20th cent., Cistercian monk, spiritual writer

The Greyfriars ' Chronicle says that Hooper was " sometime a white monk "; and in the sentence pronounced against him by Stephen Gardiner he is described as " olim monachus de Cliva Ordinis Cisterciensis ," i. e. of the Cistercian house of Cleeve Abbey in Somerset.

A notable exception to normative medieval eschatology is found in Joachim of Fiore ( c. 1135-1202 ), a Cistercian monk, who to an extent, stressed premillennial themes.

He enjoyed the favour of Conrad's successor, Frederick I ; was probably instrumental in settling the dispute over the duchy of Bavaria in 1156 ; was present at the famous diet of Besançon in 1157, and, still retaining the habit of a Cistercian monk, died at Morimond on 22 September 1158.

Lanz became a monk in the Cistercian order in 1893, assuming the name Georg and living in the Heiligenkreuz monastery.

The dubious Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, compiled in 1298-1301 by a Cistercian monk in the service of Paul I Šubić of Bribir, refers to Croats in southern Dalmatia.

However, he loses these when attacked by a Cistercian monk with dogs.

21st century Cistercian monk s in their Religious habit | habit ( with hoodless black monastic scapular ).

Fr Jeremiah Flynn, an Irish Cistercian monk, was appointed as Prefect Apostolic of New Holland and set out from Britain for the colony uninvited.

Memorare, from the Latin " Remember ", is frequently misattributed to the 12th-century Cistercian monk Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, apparently due to confusion with its 17th-century popularizer, Father Claude Bernard, who stated that he learned it from his own father.

Widowed for the second time c. 1196, Bertran became a monk and entered the Cistercian abbey of Dalon at Sainte-Trie in the Dordogne region.

There are various theories on who was the author: either an anonymous Benedictine monk of Dioclea ( modern Bar ) around 1142-1199 ; or Gregory ( Grgur ), Archbishop of Antivari 1172-1196 ; or the Cistercian Rudger ( Rudiger ), Archbishop of Antivari 1299-1301.

* Thomas Merton ( 1915 – 1968 ), American Cistercian monk, social activist and author

He spent the following year and a half at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, where he engaged in writing his three great books, his dictations keeping three scribes busy night and day ; there the young monk, Lucas ( afterwards Archbishop of Cosenza ), who acted as his secretary, was amazed to see so famous and eloquent a man wearing such rags, and the wonderful devotion with which he preached and said Mass.

A fourth brother, Stephen of Lexington, became a Cistercian monk and administrator, ultimately serving as Abbot of Clairvaux.

As it meanders around the town of Neath it passes the remains of the Roman fort Nidum at Court Herbert and the Cistercian abbey of Neath Abbey.

Carmyle as a place name, originally appears as a gift of the lands by Herbert, the Bishop of Glasgow ( 1147 – 1164 ) to the Cistercian Abbey of Neubotle

He is notably the builder of Alcobaça Monastery, to which he called the Cistercian Order of his uncle Bernard of Clairvaux of Burgundy.

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist ( 1090 – August 20, 1153 ) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.

Under the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux he entered the Cistercian Order in the monastery of Clairvaux in 1138.

An argument then broke out between a group of reformers based in York and backed by Bernard of Clairvaux, the head of the Cistercian order, who preferred William of Rievaulx as the new archbishop, and Stephen and his brother Henry of Blois, who preferred various Blois family relatives.

Clairvaux Abbey ( Clara Vallis in Latin ) is a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, 15 km from Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département in northeastern France.

Clairvaux Abbey was a good example of the general layout of a Cistercian monastery.

At this period Cistercian illumination was the most advanced in France, but within 25 years it was abandoned altogether under the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux.

Margam Abbey was founded in 1147 as a daughter house of Clairvaux, a Cistercian foundation, by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester.

The property was then offered to St. Mary ’ s Cistercian Abbey in Dublin, which was in the filial line of Clairvaux.

The Cistercians declined, apparently because they felt unable to administer houses for both men and women, but Pope Eugenius III, himself a Cistercian, intervened to ask the abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, to assist Gilbert in drawing up Institutes for a new Order.

* Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153 ): Cistercian theologian, author of The Steps of Humility and Pride, On Loving God, and Sermons on the Song of Songs ; strong blend of scripture and personal experience.

Norbert was a friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and so was largely influenced by the Cistercian ideals as to both the manner of life and the government of his order.

In 1146, twelve Cistercian monks and three lay brothers from Clairvaux came to Villers in order to establish the abbey on land granted them by Gauthier de Marbais.

Bernard of Clairvaux, the famous Cistercian abbot and religious leader, exerted all his influence to ensure FitzHerbert's suspension, sending a series of complaints to the new pope that William had been intruded by secular powers into the see, that he was oppressing the Cistercian monasteries and that he had irregularly appointed William of St. Barbara as Dean of York.

Early in the 12th century, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was instrumental in re-emphasizing the importance of Lectio Divina within the Cistercian order.

The Congregation of Cluny was also under attack by other orders and prominent monks and theologians, including St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a Cistercian monk.

The act of his that resonated longest in history was his grant of lands in 1115 to the monk Bernard of the reformed Benedictines at Cîteaux — the Cistercians — in order to found Clairvaux Abbey, a Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux ( in the present Ville-sous-la-Ferté ), in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, where Bernard was appointed abbot and became famous as Bernard of Clairvaux.