M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. (Trappist) THREE rebel monks m. This work raymond starts the trilogy entitled The Saga of Citeaux and composed of three rebel monks, the family managed to Christ and Incense burned. Under the name of "saga", the author expresses his intention to draw poetically the history of the early Cistercian Order that, walking the centuries, would receive the monastery of La Trappe Trappist name with which it meets the white monks. In Nordic literature, the saga is a genre equivalent to the epic of southern and western Europe. But the sagas often lack individual character: the hero in the saga is a collective, a family, a tribe, a people. In telling the story of the founders of Citeaux, Raymond used that old genre, and, taking a real life extraordinary events, infused a breath of poetry and legendary high emotional value. His intention in writing the trilogy, was to disseminate the history of the first Europeans in the twelfth century Cistercian and Trappist that of the first Americans in the nineteenth century. In the three seasons of the Saga of Citeaux, Raymond did the founders of the Cistercian Trappist monastery in Europe and in America, what they did with Cid and the kings of England and Shakespeare's jester Cardena, standing them in their graves, blood in their veins injected petrified suns and stars light in their eyes closed, breath and give them voice to that, move and talk, never be separated from our memory. All public, and especially religious and Seminars libraries.