History about the Cistercians or Trappists and their beers                    All started by Benoit de Nursie in the years circa 480-548 who created the principle “ ora et labora” according wich monks must pray, study , contemplation and  work. Monks who were following the Rule were called Benedictines.  He was the founder of the abbey of Monte Cassino between Rome and Napels around 525-530. In the year 1098, St.Robert of Molesme founded a community of reformist monks in the French city of Citeaux (in Latin Cistercium), the root of a pair of orders […]