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  2. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    Catholic religious orders began as early as the 500s, with the Order of Saint Benedict being formed in 529. The earliest orders include the Cistercians (1098), the Premonstratensians (1120), the Poor Clares founded by Francis of Assisi (1212), and the Benedictine reform movements of Cluny (1216). These orders were confederations of independent ...

  3. Franciscans - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis, is a private confraternity of the Catholic Church whose members strive to model their lives according to the Rule and Statutes of the Primitive Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, which was written for lay people in 1221 by Francis of Assisi. Right now there are several hundred members ...

  4. Category:Catholic orders and societies - Wikipedia

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    C. Camaldolese; Capuciati; Catholic congregations in France; Celestines; Christian Doctrine Fathers; Claretians; Community of Saint Martin; Community of St. John

  5. Holy orders in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Priests lay their hands on the ordinands during a Catholic rite of ordination. The sacrament of holy orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders: bishops, priests, and deacons, in decreasing order of rank, collectively comprising the clergy. In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose".

  6. Order of Friars Minor - Wikipedia

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    Francis of Assisi, founder of the Order of Friars Minor; oldest known portrait in existence of the saint, dating back to St. Francis' retreat to Subiaco (1223–1224). The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; [2] postnominal abbreviation O.F.M.) is a mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi.

  7. Secular Franciscan Order - Wikipedia

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    Brothers and sisters of the Secular Franciscan Order make a spiritual commitment (promises) to their own Rule, and Secular Franciscan fraternities can not exist without the assistance of the first or second Franciscan Orders. The Secular Franciscan Order was the third of the three families founded by Francis of Assisi 800 years ago. [5] [6] [7]

  8. Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross - Wikipedia

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    In 1410, the Crosiers' general chapter ordered the destruction of its records and decisions from the time of its foundation. The reason for this radical act is recorded to have been a thorough reformation of some sort, but it left the Order's modern historians with only fragments and clues to their Order's first two centuries, and the tradition summarized above.

  9. Order of Friars Minor Conventual - Wikipedia

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    Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi, the most important church of the Order, where the saint's body is preserved. The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M. Conv.) is a male religious fraternity in the Catholic Church and a branch of the Franciscan Order. Conventual Franciscan Friars are identified by the affix O.F.M. Conv. after their names.