Note 353 — LLANTHONY ABBEY, Monmouthshire.

The Rules—of which the above are but a meagre and imperfect outline—are expressed with great beauty and simplicity in the original, to which the reader is again referred. It is worth mentioning that the celebrated Thomas à Kempis was a monk of this Order; and, perhaps, no devotional work has appeared in so many languages, or run through so many editions, as his “De Imitatione Christi.”