In the year 1000, several very compromised Christians, retired from the society to go live as Hermits. They inspired many conventional men to make vows of chastity and poverty, as well as service in response to Jesus Christ’s teachings.
Monastery life and its activities dependent on it in the Christian church, presented itself since the beginning of the third century as a vocational impulse of those who wished to dedicate themselves entirely to a deeper understanding and a more complete vision of te commandments and advice of the Christian religion.
The older Monk thought that immitating Christ he could comply the Eveangelic commands in the best manner as the genuine aspiration for perfection and the true love of god. The Christian monk in his origins understood himself as the realization of Christian ideals of perfection and represented an important step in the evolution of the perfect ife that was practivced in church.
In the two final decades of the III century several Christians from Egypt and Syria broke off their past forms or styles of family and Christian life and retired to solitud, making the first step that was characterized this exaggerated solitude that Christians would impose themselves to, which would give origin to monks.
The monk appeared for the first time in Egypt at the end of the III century. There is were the first significant monk figures appeared, accepted universally and posed as a model to follow. The main principles of the monk life were to pray, meditate, and most of all, celibacy.
Monks had perfectly determined profiles. Due to thier great number and their virtues, monks from Egypt reached popularity rather quickly. They embarked in long pilgrimages to visit them. At the end of the IV century, Egypt was the monk country, paradise for monks.
In Egypt, monks greatly maintained their complete separation from the world and almost did not even come to intervene in the course of history, aside from doctrinal contoversy, but in terms of political and economic life, monks did not have any influence, but it was the economic and political situation that contributed, to an extent, the success of monks in Egypt.
Soon, a group of men tried to carry this model of life to Europe, forming new communities of faithful religious groups who would become monks. The Pope Gregory I, encouraged the construction of monasteries throughout Christian Europe. In some areas of Europe, they became the only knowledgeable or educated ones. Irish monks preserved civilization within their quarters, since they scattered or settled in other zones to teach and relive the interest in knowledge. Monasteries were the main source of taught men instructed capable of helping government administration, which is why many acquired important positions such as assistants and royal counselors
Politics and religiong, both had one same objective: to build the kingdom of god. For this, they resorted to the formation of monk order: in Cluny, founded in 910, They searched for the monastery and church in Císter: founded in 1098, tried going back to simple life, poverty, that Cluny forgot. The formation of great libraries where documents of great importance and de grandes bibliotecas en las que se reunían documentos de gran importancia para la comunidad, su impulsador fue San Bernardo. Los Franciscanos: fundados por San Francisco de Asís, vivían de su trabajo y si no tenían suficiente se dedicaban a mendigar. Su misión era predicar y trabajar en el sentimiento pastoral con todo tipo de gente. Los Dominicos: fundados por Santo Domingo, eran sacerdotes que vivían en pequeñas comunidades urbanas; su misión era predicar el mensaje cristiano y dedicarse al trabajo intelectual, y fueron los encargados de llevar a cabo La Inquisición.