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Question
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Enlist any five rules that were followed by Monks as mentioned in the manuscript of Benedictine monasteries.

 

Solution

The rules were: 
i. Permission to speak should rarely be granted to monks.

ii. Humility means obedience.

iii. No monk should own private property.


iv. Idleness is the enemy of the soul, so friars and sisters should be occupied at certain times in manual labour, and at fixed hours in sacred reading.

v. The monastery should be laid out in such a way that all necessities be found within its bounds: water, mill, garden, workshops