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A religious order is a group of men or of women who have taken vows to live a religious life in a certain way, usually by living, worshiping and working together. The vows typically are of celibacy, poverty (not owning personal property), and obedience (following the direction of their leaders), also praying at certain times. Adherents have a variety of names, for example: monks, friars, nuns, brothers, sisters. The best known Catholic orders are Benedictines, Franciscans, Jesuits, and Dominicans.
1. Devout, involved in religious practice
2. Member of a religious order, a monk or nun.
A commitment to remaining unmarried and abstaining from sexual intercourse. Required of monks and nuns, and of priests in the Roman Catholic church.
Member of male religious community.
A man belonging to a Christian religious group who, instead of living within an enclosed religious house, travelled round teaching the Christian faith, and sustaining himself by begging for charity.
A woman who has chosen to enter a religious order for women, and taken the appropriate vows.
The term used in the New Testament to indicate the equality of all the members of Christ's 'family', the church.
1. Sometimes used to denote all Christians
2. Used specifically of the Roman Catholic church.
In the medieval West the most influential guide for those following the monastic life was the Rule of St Benedict (c. 480-550), drawn up for his monks at Monte Cassino.
Founded by St Francis of Assisi (d. 1226), the 'Grey Friars' reached England in 1224 and spread rapidly. They rejected the ownership of property and committed themselves to carrying the spiritual life out to lay people in the everyday world.
An order within the Roman Catholic church, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, and known as the Society of Jesus. They are an active order, serving as priests, missionaries, and teachers.
Religious order founded by St Dominic (d. 1222), primarily as a preaching order to combat heresy.
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