Refectory
Réfectoire is a male name coming from ecclesiastical Latin refectio having itself a Latin base, refectorius meaning which restores .
The refectory is a room where the members of the same community take their meal together.
The refectory in an abbey
This dining room belonged to the conventual buildings and just like surrounds the Cloître on one on its sides the chapter house. It is always of very great dimensions in order to be able to accommodate all the community at the same time.
The Table S are aligned along the walls and the Moine S are side-by-side placed so as to not have any opposite between them and with being all turned towards the interior of the room. The Abbé chairs the meal on a particular table which it divides with the dignitaries of the establishment.
The Religieux take two meals per day in addition to the collations. They are useful mutually.
Throughout all meal, silence is obligatory except if it is about one feastday or the Superior can raise prohibition. The Moine S thus developed with the gestural code enabling them to communicate between them.
A brother is of service of reading during one week complete. He takes seat in a Chaire installed in the thickness of a wall and raised compared to the other brothers so that its voice carries and that everyone hears it.
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