Prayer fraternity

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The brotherhood of prayer between monks and monasteries is not only a phenomenon of the Christian Middle Ages, but should be discussed here based on the high medieval Benedictine monasticism .

The prayer fraternity ( societas fraternitatis ), which united the monks of different monasteries , points beyond the individual monastery . The over-monastic prayer community was responsible for commemorating the dead (memoria) for the deceased monks of the connected monasteries. B. received new impulses within the framework of the reform movement emanating from the Burgundian monastery of Cluny (such as All Souls Day ). The high mediaeval reform monasteries were linked by prayer fraternities and fraternization agreements. Without claiming to be exhaustive:

The obligations to pray were reflected in fraternity lists and necrologies (lists of names of the deceased in calendar form).

literature