ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 26th of January WELCOME! SAINT ALBERIC, ABBOT Saint Alberic receives the white robe from the Blessed Virgin The blessed Alberic, Abbot and co-founder of the Order of Citeaux [Cîteaux] (Cistercium) , was one of the noblest disciples of Saint Robert , for which reason the latter appointed him Prior at the Monastery of Molesme. But when the greater part of the monks opposed Robert 's pious intentions in observing the Holy Rule, and he founded a new settlement in Citeaux, a marshy desert near Châlons in Burgundy, Alberic was his inseparable companion and shared with him all the hardships and difficulties of the first foundation. He and 18 companions renewed their oath of allegiance to the Rule of Saint Benedict on March 21, 1098, and when Robert returned to Molesme, he was elected Abbot of Citeaux. Alberic equipped the new Order of the Cistercians with the white cowl and the constitutions, which, ...