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  2. Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of ...

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    These are Institutes in which, for historical reasons or because of their character or nature, solemn vows are made by at least some of the members. All members of these orders are called regulars (because they are governed by a Rule (i.e. regula)), and if they are women they are called nuns ("moniales"). The orders are older than the ...

  3. Ursulines - Wikipedia

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    In the following century, the Ursuline nuns were strongly encouraged and supported by Francis de Sales. They were called the "Ursuline nuns" as distinct from the "federated Ursulines" of the company, who preferred to follow the original way of life. Both forms of life continued to spread throughout Europe and beyond. [2]

  4. Rule of Saint Augustine - Wikipedia

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    Saint Augustine surrounded by Augustinian monks (Paduan school, 15th century), relief in the portal tympanum of the former Augustinian convent of Santo Stefano in Venice.The book inscription is the beginning of the Rule of Saint Augustine: ANTE O[MN]IA FRATRES CARISSIMI DILIGATVR DEVS DEINDE PROXIMVS QVIA ISTA PR[A]ECEPTA SVNT N[O]B[IS] DATA - "First of all, most beloved brothers, God shall be ...

  5. Consecrated virgin - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Order of Virgins has members who live in the world and members who are nuns. Both the consecration of a virgin living in the world and that of a nun are reserved to their diocesan bishop; it is for him to decide on the conditions under which a virgin living in the world is to undertake a life of perpetual virginity.

  6. Augustinian nuns - Wikipedia

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    Augustinian nuns are the most ancient and continuous segment of the Augustinian religious order. Named after Augustine of Hippo , there are several Catholic religious communities of women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of St. Augustine .

  7. Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites - Wikipedia

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    The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (Latin: Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Saecularis; abbreviated OCDS), formerly the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and of the Holy Mother Saint Teresa of Jesus, is a third order of Catholic lay persons and secular clergy associated with the Discalced Carmelites.

  8. Clerical celibacy - Wikipedia

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    This vow of chastity, made by people – not all of whom are clergy – is different from what is the obligation, not a vow, of clerical continence and celibacy. Celibacy for religious and monastics (monks and sisters/nuns) and for bishops is upheld by the Catholic Church and the traditions of both Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy ...

  9. Margaret Anna Cusack - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Anna Cusack (born 6 May 1829 [1] in a house at the corner of Mercer Street and York Street (now known as Cusack Corner), [2] Dublin, Ireland – died 5 June 1899), also known as Sister Mary Francis Cusack and Mother Margaret, was first an Irish Anglican nun, then a Catholic nun, then a religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and then an Anglican (or ...