AUGUSTINIAN CANONS
, a religious See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, called also See also:Austin Canons, Canons See also:Regular, and in See also:England See also:Black Canons, because their See also:cassock and See also:mantle were black, though they wore a See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:surplice : elsewhere the See also:colour of the See also:habit varied considerably
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The canons regular (see See also:CANON) See also:grew out of the earlier See also:institute of canonical See also:life, in consequence of the urgent exhortations of the Lateran See also:Synod of 1059
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The See also:clergy of some cathedrals (in England, See also:Carlisle), and of a See also:great number of collegiate churches all over western See also:Europe, responded to the See also:appeal; and the need of a See also:rule of life suited to the new regime produced, towards the end ,of the 11th See also:century, the so-called Rule of St See also:Augustine (see UGTSTINIANS)
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This Rule was widely adopted by the canons re See also:lar, who also began to bind themselves by the vows of poverty, obedience and chastity
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In the 12th century this discipline became universal among them; and so arose the order of Augustinian canons as a religious. order in the strict sense of the word
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They resembled the monks in so far as they lived in community and took religious vows; but their See also:state of life remained essentially clerical, and as clerics their See also:duty was to undertake the See also:pastoral care and serve the See also:parish churches in their patronage
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They were See also:bound to the choral celebration of the divine See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and in its See also:general See also:tenor their manner of life differed little from that of monks
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Their houses, at first without bonds between them, soon tended to draw together and coalesce into congregations with corporate organization and codes of constitutions supplementary to the Rule
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The popes encouraged these centralizing tendencies; and in 1339 See also:Benedict XII. organized the Augustinian canons on the same general lines as those laid down for the See also:Benedictines, by a See also:system of provincial chapters and visitations
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Some See also:thirty congregations of canons regular of St Augustine are numbered
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The most important were: (I) the Lateran canons, formed soon after the synod of 1059, by the clergy of the Lateran See also:Basilica; (2) See also:Congregation of St See also:Victor in See also:Paris, c
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IIoo, remarkable for the theological and mystical school of See also:Hugh, See also:Richard and See also:Adam of St Victor; (3) Gilbertines (see See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
GILBERT OF SEMPRINGIIAM, ST); (4) Windesheim Congregation, c
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1400, in the See also:Netherlands and over See also:north and central See also:Germany (see See also:GROOT, See also:GERHARD), to which belonged See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas a Kempis; (5) Congregation of Ste See also:Genevieve in Paris, a reform c
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163o
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During the later See also:middle ages the houses of these various congregations of canons regular spread all over Europe and became extraordinarily numerous
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They underwent the natural and inevitable vicissitudes of all orders, having their periods of depression and degeneracy, and again of revival and reform
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The See also:book of Johann See also:Busch, himself a canon of Windesheim, 'Di Reformatione monasteriorum, shows that in the 15th century See also:grave relaxation had crept into many monasteries of Augustinian canons in north Germany, and the efforts at reform were only partialiy successful
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The See also:Reformation, the religious See also:wars and the Revolution have swept away nearly all the canons regular, but some of their houses in See also:Austria still exist in their See also:medieval splendour
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In England there were as many as 200 houses of Augustinian canons, and 6o of them were among the " greater monasteries " suppressed in 1538–1540 (for See also:list see Tables in
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Gasquet's See also:English Monastic Life)
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The first See also:foundation was See also:Holy Trinity, Aldgate, by See also:Queen Maud, in r1o8; Carlisle was an English See also:cathedral of Augustinian canons
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In See also:Ireland the order was even more numerous, See also:Christ Church, See also:Dublin, being one of their houses
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Three houses of the Lateran canons were established in England towards the See also:close of the 19th century
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Most of the congregations of Augustinian canons had convents of nuns, called canonesses; many such exist to this See also:day
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See the See also:works of See also:Amort and Du See also:Molinet, mentioned under CANON
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Vol. ii. of See also:Helyot's Hist. See also:des ordres religieux (1792) is devoted to canons regular of all kinds
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The See also:information is epitomized by Max Heimbucher, Orden and Kongregationen, i
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(1896), §§ 54-6o, where copious references to the literature of the subject are sup-plied
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See also See also:Otto Zockler, Askese and Monchtum, ii
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(1897), p.422 ; and Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexicon (and ed.), See also:art
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" Canonici Regulares " and " Canonissae." For England see J
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See also:Clark, Observances in use at the Augustinian Priory at Barnwell (1897); and an See also:article in See also:Journal of Theological Studies (v.) by See also:Scott See also:Holmes
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