HIERONYMITES  , a See also:

• COMMON

common name for three or four congregations of hermits living according to the See also:

• RULE

rule of St See also:

• AUGUSTINE, SAINT (354-430)
• AUGUSTINE, SAINT (d. c.613)

Augustine with supplementary regulations taken from St See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

Jerome's writings . Their See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit was 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, with a See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black cloak . (I) The See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish Hieronymites, established near See also:

• TOLEDO
• TOLEDO, COUNCILS OF (Concilia toletana)

Toledo in 1374 . The 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 soon became popular in See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain and See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal, and in 1415 it numbered 25 houses . It possessed some of the most famous monasteries in the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula, including the royal monastery of Belem near See also:

• LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon, and the magnificent monastery built by See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip II. at the Escurial . Though the manner of See also:

• LIFE

life was very austere the Hieronymites devoted themselves to studies and to the active See also:

• WORK

work of the See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry, and they possessed See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence both at the Spanish and the Portuguese courts . They went to Spanish and Portuguese See also:

• AMERICA

America and played a considerable See also:

• PART

part in Christianizing and civilizing the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . There were Hieronymite nuns founded in 1375, who became very numerous . The order decayed during the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and was completely suppressed in 1835- (2) Hieronymites of the Observance, or of See also:

• LOMBARDY

Lombardy: a reform of (r) effected by the third See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general in 1424; it embraced seven houses in Spain and seventeen in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, mostly in Lombardy . It is now See also:

• EXTINCT

extinct . (3) Poor Hermits of St Jerome, established near See also:

• PISA
• PISA, COUNCIL OF (1409)

Pisa in 1377: it came to embrace nearly fifty houses whereof only one in See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome and one in See also:

• VITERBO

Viterbo survive . (4) Hermits of St Jerome of the See also:

• CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

congregation of See also:

• FIESOLE (anc. Faesulae, q.v.)

Fiesole, established in 1406: they had See also:

• FORTY

forty houses but in 1668 they were See also:

• UNITED

united to (3) .

See See also:

• HELYOT, PIERRE (1660-1716)

Helyot, HistoPre See also:

• DES

des ordres religieux (1714), iii. cc . 57-6o, iv. cc . 1-3; Max Heimbucher, Orden and Kongregationen (1896), i . § 70; and See also:

• ART

art . " Hieronymiten " in See also:

• HERZOG, HANS (1819–1894)
• HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB (1805-1882)

Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (ed . 3), and in Welte and Wetzer, Kirchenlexicon (ed . 2) . (E . C .