Sometimes I hear the name “Trappist;” what does that mean?
You’re asking for another history lesson. ‘Trappist’ is the adjective from the name of the French monastery La Trappe, part of the Cistercian Order. In the mid-17th century, they were one of the reform movements in the Cistercian Order. They managed to survive the French Revolution, and reformed monasteries in France and Western Europe and America, in the 19th century. We are descended from that branch of the Cistercian Order.
