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List Of Monastic Rules

This article presents the list of monastic rules related to the religious life of monks and nuns of the Christian tradition. The monasticism whose origins go back to Buddhism Theravada is in Christianity , an old phenomenon, which emerged during the palochristianisme in Christendom in full training.

From the Late Antiquity , it became necessary to draft regulations governing the Christian monastic life. Among the many old rules, twenty-four have survived Ireland ^{Rules of the ancient and Middle Age}

Rule of St. Pachomius , written in the ^fourth century by St. Pachomius of Tabennesis
Rule of St. Basil , written in the ^fourth century by St. Basil of Caesarea
The two rules of St. Augustine of Hippo :
- a set of guidelines, which is not really a monastic rule, written for the monastery Thagaste and serves the Augustinians ;
- a written rule for the clergy (secular) of Hippo
Rule Four Fathers in 405 by St. Honore d'Arles ( Abbaye de Lerins ), the second is published in 427 , the third in 519
Institutions in 419 , of John Cassian (Marseille), followed by conferences in 426
Rule of St. Macarius in 495 (Lerins)
Oyend rule by Oyend in the monasteries of Jura (circa 500 )
Rule of St. Caesarius by Caesarius , Archbishop of Arles (c. 500)
Eastern rule in 513 (Lerins)
Laus perennis , Abbey Agaune ( Sigismund , king Burgundian , 515 )
Rule of St. Ailbe of Elmy (verse)
Rule of St. Ciaran of Clonmacnois (verse)
Rule of St. Columba of Iona
Rule of St. Comgall Bangor
Rule of St. Eugippe (Lucullanum near Naples )
Rule of the Master (years 530, Italy)
Rule of St. Benedict ( 535 ), probably inspired by the earlier, written by St. Benedict of Nursia and serves the Benedictines and Cistercians
Rule of St. Aurelian (Arles)
Rule Tarnation
Rule of St. Ferreol Uzes, to 558.
Rule of St. Columba ( ^sixth century ), written by St. Columbanus of Luxeuil , probably influenced by that of St. Comgall, exists in two versions:
- Regula cujusdam monachos patris ad for men;
- Regula ad patris cujusdam Virginia, for women.

Rules of nunneries

The rules below are intended for nunneries, while those above are suitable for communities of men and women.

Rule for virgins ( 513 ), written by St. Caesarius of Arles
Rule of Saint Donat or rule for virgins; based on the rule of St. Benedict and that of St. Columban.

Rules of the Late Middle Ages

Rule of the Order of the Temple , written around 1129 from the rules of St. Benedict and St. Augustine and adapted to a military order. However it should be noted that the Templars are religious ...
"(...) They are not monks, who have no vocation to withdraw from the world to pray, meditate and give glory to God. The Temple is a military-religious order, not a monastic order, and the term "monk-soldier, current and overused, is inappropriate . "