Monastery Garments: Monks Habits

H1 Cistercian (Trappist) Monks
in full habit

H2 Trappist monk in tunic and scapular w/ standard pointed hood.
This monk is not wearing the hooded cuculla / cowl

H3 Trappist Monks in Chapter room in full habits, including the hooded cuculla / cowl

H4 Cistercian Monks of the Common Observance in tunic & hooded scapular

H5 Benedictine novice monks in tunic & hooded scapular
The are not wearing the cuculla

H6 Cistercian Monks of the Common Observance; Priest in full habit with hooded cuculla hearing novice's confession

H7 Greek Orthodox monks of Meteora
Monks at upper left in inner raso/Anteri/cassocks w/leather belts
The rest of the monks are in full habit including outer raso/exoraso, kamelavkion hat with epanokamelavkion hood/veil

H8 Thomas Merton (center) with his scholastics -professed choir monks at Gethsemene Abbey
In full habit including hooded cuculla / cowl.
Sleeves 20" wide and hang down about 12" below the wrist; same style as most Benedictine Orders.

H9 Cistercian monks of the Common Observance in Chapter House in a French Abbey

H10 Benedictine monks in a French abbey

H11 Benedictine monks in a French abbey

H12 Benedictine monks in a French abbey, assisting priests at morning private Masses
Pre-Vatican II

H13 Benedictine monk in a French abbey

H14 Benedictine Abbot receiving and clothing a postulant as a novice during a postulant clothing/ reception ceremony

H15 Benedictine Monks in full habit in a French abbey

H16 Trappist choir monk in full habit in a French abbey

H17 Benedictine monks in full habit, Easter Sunday procession in a French abbey Pre-Vatican II

H18 Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance (Trappist), entering abbey church behind an abbot.
Lay brothers in dark brown habits in right foreground
French abbey Pre-Vatican II

H19
Carthusian monks in refectory in a French Charterhouse

H20
Carthusian monk in choir
at Divine Office, extra wide scapular, extra large pointed hood on scapular

H21

Greek Orthodox priests in black inner rasa cassocks and outer exoraso / Anteri

w/ 3O" wide sleeves, raised collar.

We do not make the Greek or Russian style kamelavkion hats or skouphos hats

H23
Monastic male/female hooded cucullas

H24
Monastic male/female hooded cucullas

H25

Monastic male/female hooded cucullas

H26

Papal visit to Cluny Benedictine Abbey in 12th century; Pope Urban II, former abbot of Cluny Abbey; Pope consecrates Cluny Abbey Church & High Altar