Florensians

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The Florensian order was a branch of the Cistercian order founded around 1190 in the monastery of San Giovanni di Flora in the Sila Mountains in Calabria by Joachim von Fiore , who lived according to a stricter Benedictine rule approved by the Pope , based on the original spirituality of the Cistercians and on contemplation was aligned. It spread with many daughter monasteries in Italy and reunited with the Cistercians in the second half of the 16th century. In 1570 it was dissolved.

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