Jesus through the Centuries--Pelikan-2

Jesus as the Monk
The Contribution of the monasteries in the middle Ages  
For scholarship as well as for missionary activities
One of the lasting monastic conquests for Christ was the work of medieval missions.The Christinization of the barbarian Germanic,Slavic, and Eurasian  tribes who came into Europe
 was the completely achievement of monks.
the abolition of the monastic orders must certainly be reckoned as a major reason for the total loss of the missionary  imperative  inmost of the Protestantism for more than two centuries.(120)
Dante on Assisi: " a sunrise broke again upon the world'

the small church in assisi known as the Potiuncula-the church of St.mary of the Angels-the first churhc he rstored(134)