Benedictines

Cordials were said to be produced in ancient Egypt and Athens. Commercial production started in the Middle Ages when alchemists, physicians, and monks were searching for the "elixir of life." Many wek-known cordials were developed in this period, such as Benedictine and Chartreuse, both bearing the names of the monasteries where they were first developed. 

Benedictine was made in 1510 by Dom Bernardo Vinceki at the abbey in Erecomp, Normandy. It is one of the few Hqueurs that is aged for four years after blending. Benedictine and Brandy (B B) was introduced in 1937 after the discovery that Americans were adding brandy to Benedictine. Chartreuse, first made in 1605, is formulated with over 130 herbs and spices macerated in brandy. 

St. Benedict founds Monte Cassino the Benedictine Order, which is to become a very powerful force in Western Christianity, adopts manual labor as a virtuous action. 

St. Boniface, an English Benedictine, visits Germany and establishes abbeys and coun-tiy estates as centers of industry and material progress. 

Cistercians introduce use of city garbage and sewer water as fertilizer near Milan (Italy) both Benedictines and Cistercians drain swamps and lakes in Germany, France, the Low Countries, and Italy. 

Ask a bartender unfamiliar with the Tuxedo to go lightly on the anise, usually a pastis like Pernod, which is overpowering to the drink. Properly proportioned, it is an aperitif in black tie—convivial and dressed to kill. (A white tie is Benedictine, bourbon and vodka a top hat is apricot brandy, vermouth, vodka and Cointreau.)... 

Maier, Michael. "The golden tripod, or, three choice chemical tracts. Namely (i.) That of Basilius Valentinus, a monk of the Benedictine Order called Practica, with twelve keys and an appendix, (ii.) The Crede Mihi, or Ordinal, of Thomas Norton, an English sage, (iii.) The Testament of a certain Cremer, Abbot of Westminster. Edited by Michael Maier." In From the Hermetic Museum. The Book of Lambspring..., ed. Derek Bryce, 41-160. Lampeter Llanerch Enterprises, 1987. 

Cremer, John. "The Testament of Cremer, Abbot of Westminster and Brother of the Benedictine Order." In From the Hermetic Museum. The Book ofLambspring..., ed. Derek Bryce, 151-160. Lampeter Llanerch Enterprises, 1987. 

Yet scorn not a friend who spoke as plainly as he might. Beneath the shadowy foliage of words is concealed the golden fruit of Truth. The Testament Of Cremer, The Englishman, Abbot of Westminster, and Friar of the Benedictine Order. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/cremer.htmll. 

Valentine, Basil. The triumphant chariot of antimony, being a conscientious discovery of the many reall transcendent excellencies included in that minerall, written by Basil Valentine a Benedictine monke. Faithfully Englished and published for the common good. By I. H. Oxon. London Printed for Thomas Bruster, and are to be sold at the Three Bibles neere the West end of Paules Church-yard in London, 1660. 175p. 

Valentine, Basil. Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine. The Preface of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. rhttp //www.levi tv.com/alchemv/twelvkev.htmll. 

Pernety, Antoine-Joseph. The four seasons in alchemy Adapted from the French of the wise Benedictine Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety 1716-1801. 

Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine, Concerning the Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. 

Here follow the Twelve Keys of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine, with which we may open the doors of the knowledge of the Most Ancient Stone and unseal the Most Secret Fountain of Health. 

I, Basil Valentine, brother of the Benedictine Order, do testify that I have written this little book, wherein, after the manner of the Ancients, I have philosophically indicated how this most rare treasure may be acquired, whereby the true Sages did prolong life unto its furthest limit. 

Many odd people come calling on the Maestro, but probably no couple I have ever found waiting out there at the top of the stairs has surprised me more. The woman was swathed from the ground up in the habit of a Benedictine nun, with only her fingers visible to show that there was a woman inside that menacing pillar of black. The man at her side, gray robed and tonsured, was the third Michiel son, the former Timoteo. I bowed to his austere. Old Testament stare. 

Foods - Foods may contribute to a reaction. Some foods with 6 mg/100 g salicylate include curry powder, paprika, licorice, Benedictine ligueur, prunes, raisins, tea, and gherkins. A typical American diet contains 10 to 200 mg/day salicylate. 

The first allegory is taken from The Twelve Keys, of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine —... 

The modem production of champagne is not so far removed from that empirically developed by the Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Perignon in the late seventeenth century. This method is also used outside... 

Sasilius Valentinus. Although the collection of chemical writings attributed to the fifteenth-century Benedictine monk, Basilius Valentinus, contains this alleged portrait, there is no conclusive evidence that such a person ever lived. Although the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony and other writings commonly attributed to him are much too modem for the fifteenth century, they are nevertheless of great historical value. 

Since the alchemists considered natural antimony minerals to be the most suitable raw material for the transmutation of metals into gold, alchemical literature abounds in references to antimony (65). The most famous of the early monographs on this element is the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, which first appeared in 1604, in German. Johann Tholde, operator of a saltworks in Frankenhausen, Thuringia, the editor of this work, claimed that it had been written by a fifteenth-century Benedictine monk, Basilius Valentinus (3, 6). Since no conclusive evidence of the existence of this monk has been unearthed, and since the literary style... 

Most notably in The triumphal ehariot of antimony, a work attributed to a 15th-cent Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine, but written much later and first printed in 1599. For the su estion that this work was indebted to Suchten, see John Read, Prelude to Chemistry An Outline of Alehemy, its Literature and Relationships Mass., 1966 [1936]), 187. For further discussion of works attributed to Basil Valentine, see... 

Although the literature which appeared under the name of the alleged Benedictine monk, Basilius Valentinus is now generally conceded to have been written at the close of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century, its relation to the history of chemistry is so similar in many ways to that of the Hollandus literature that it may be best considered in this connection. 

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