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**From the author of *The Seven Storey Mountain*, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France.***“The word ‘Trappist’ has become synonymous with ‘ascetic’ and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very hard life. But . . . Penance and asceticism are not ends in themselves. If monks never succeeded in being more than pious athletes, they do not fulfill their purpose in the Church. If you want to understand why the monks lead the life they do, you will have to ask, first of all, What is their aim?”*In his bestselling memoir, *The Seven Storey Mountain*, Catholic poet, theologian, and mystic Thomas Merton chronicled his journey to becoming a Cistercian monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. In *The Waters of Siloe*, he provides an enlightening account of the Cistercian Order, better known as the Trappists.With clarity and wisdom, Merton explores the history of the Cistercian Order from its founding in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism and its surprising resurgence in Am

Author

Merton, Thomas

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

1949

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547563954

Subjects

History, Religion, Christian

Rating

4.04 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13