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During the Middle Ages and until the internal reform of the Church operated by the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Portuguese Benedictine monasteries went through a phase of material and disciplinary decay. In the reign of D. Sebastião the monasteries were renovated and the "Congregation of the Black Monks of S. Bento dos Reinos de Portugal" was established. The Tibães Monastery was constituted "head of this Congregation", from where the General Chapters took place, and all the disciplinary and material reform of the monasteries was programmed from the end of the century. XVII.