NOUN
- a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities
How To Use Benedictine order In A Sentence
- He was an officer in the Irish Guards before becoming a novice monk in the Benedictine Order in 1955.
- Father Richard, who holds several administrative posts within the Benedictine order as well as being a parish priest, is a trained lawyer.
- In all these orders the second superior of a monastery is called subprior and his office is similar to that of the claustral prior in the Benedictine Order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Above the altar is the first of a series of six statues of Saints connected to the Benedictine Order (interestingly, and presumably to stress this connection, they all wear the black Benedictine habit, even under the Mass vestments): my patron Saint, St. Gregory the Great. Catholic Bamberg: Banz Abbey
- He declared that it was his last mathematics book, and entered the Benedictine Order as a monk.
- Grub had driven over to Amplehurst, having first ascertained that it was a Catholic Public School run by members of the Benedictine order. POLITICAL SUICIDE
- Father Richard, who holds several administrative posts within the Benedictine order as well as being a parish priest, is a trained lawyer.