The Welsh Cistercians, by David H Williams Publisher_St Benedict Press • The many special features

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His rise within the ranks of the Catholic Church was meteoric

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the saintly patron of healers and poets

The Welsh Cistercians, by David H Williams Publisher_St Benedict Press • The many special featuresThe Welsh Cistercians. Written to Commemorate the Centenary of the Death of Stephen William Williams (1837 1899), the Father of Cistercian Archaeology in Wales. The Cistercians were a religious order second to none in medieval Europe. Established in Wales from the first half of the twelfth century, their abbeys played a crucial role in the development of Welsh culture and history as centres of relative security, of learning and literature, of charity