When the success of a community begins to outgrow its founder, it becomes time to set down some rules!
When the success of a community begins to outgrow its founder, it becomes time to set down some rules!
In 1121, Norbert is forced to give written structure--a rule of life--to the growing community he founded. Would this new community be strictly monastic, or something canonical and oriented toward preaching? Or, perhaps, something in-between?
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