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Secret Societies - The Cistercians Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/23/2019
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians, are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. They are also known as Bernardines, after the highly influential St. Bernard of Clairvaux; or as White Monks, in reference to the color of the "cuccula" or white choir robe worn by the Cistercians over their habits, as opposed to the black cuccula worn by Benedictine monks.

These monastic ciphers in both their manifestations – numerical and alphabetical – were influential in the development of Renaissance shorthand’s and secret codes. This ‘forgotten’ number-notation was developed in the late 13th century by Cistercian monks and was used by the Cistercians for at least two centuries as an alternative to the well-known Roman numerals.

From the 15th to the 18th century wine-gaugers used this notation for marking volumes on wine-barrels and divisions on the scales of their gauging-rods

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