To which order of monks do Trappists belong?
Trappists decisions concerning the welfare of the Order. , there were 168 Trappist monasteries and convents. Trappists The Trappists, officially the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (, abbreviated as OCSO), are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched off from the Cistercians. They follow the Rule of Saint Benedict and have communities of both monks and nuns that are referred to as Trappists and Trappistines, respectively. They are named after La Trappe Abbey, the monastery from which the movement and religious order originated. The order takes its name from La Trappe Abbey or "La Grande Trappe", located
Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel this reason they do not belong to either the Ancient Observance or Discalced branches of the Carmelite Order. All Carmelites originated as hermit monks, but the main branches of the order have been mendicant friars since the 13th century. In one of the first works of the Carmelite Order, The Institutions of the First Monks, written near the beginning of the order, the charism of the Carmelites was laid out as a hidden life of contemplative prayer carried out in the solitary wilderness by a monk. The Carmelite monks follow this same solitary monastic Carmelite charism. Cloistered Carmelite nuns also