SALT LAKE CITY — Dr. Paul Savage, a Judge Memorial Catholic High School history and economics teacher, has recently translated" The Great Beginning of Citeaux." He worked with Sister Benedicta Ward, SLG, on the translation.
"The Great Beginning of Citeaux" is a 12th-century collection of miracle stories, documents and other tales about the beginning and early years of the Cistercian Order of monks. It was written by Conrad of Eberbach, a Cistercian monk and abbot who lived in France and the Rhineland. It is also the text about which Savage wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Notre Dame.
The Cistercian Order is also known as the Trappist Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, a Roman Catholic cloistered order of monks and nuns.