tica, in folio.

The Order of St. Benedict has branched out, since the year 900, into
several independent congregations, and the Orders of Camaldoly,
Vallis Umrosa, Fontevrault, the Gilbertins, Silvestrins,
Cistercians, and some others, are no more than reformations of the
same, with certain particular additional constitutions.

Among the Reformations or distinct Congregations of Benedictins, the
first is that of Cluni, so called from the great monastery of that
name, in the diocese of Macon, founded by William the Pious, duke of
Aquitaine, about the year 910. St. Berno, the first abbot, his
successor St. Odo, afterwards St. Hugh, St. Odilo, St. Mayeul, Peter
the Venerable, and other excellent abbots, exceedingly raised the
reputation of this reform, and propagated the same. A second
Reformation was established in this Congregation in 1621, by the
Grand Prior de Veni, resembling those of St. Vanne and St. Maur.
Those monks who would not adopt it in their houses, are called
Ancient monks of Cluni. The Congregation of Cava was called from the
great monastery of that name in the province of Salerno, founded in
980, under the observance of Cluni: it was the head of a
Congregation of twenty-nine other abbeys, and ninety-one conventual
priories; but a bishopric being erected in the town of Cava, by
Boniface IX. in 1394, and the abbot's revenue and temporal
jurisdiction being united to it by Leo X. in 1514, the monastery of
the Blessed Trinity of Cava was much diminished, but is still
governed by a regular abbot. In 1485, it was united, with all its
dependencies, to the Congregation of St. Justina and Mount Cassino.
The church of St. Justina at Padua, was founded by the Consul
Opilius, in the fifth century, and the great monastery of Benedictin
monks was built there in the ninth. The Reformation which was
established in this house by Lewis Barbus, a patrician of Venice, in
1409, was soon adopted by a great number of monasteries in Italy:
but when in 1504 the abbey of Mount Cassino joined this
Congregation, it took the name of this mother-house. The
Congregation of Savigni, founded by St. Vitalis, a disciple of B.
Robert of Arbrissel, in the forest of Savigni, in Normandy in 1112,
was united to the Cistercians in 1153. The Congregation of Tiron,
founded by B. Bernard of Abbeville, anot