monastic order
81Military Order of Alcantara — Military Order of Alcántara † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Military Order of Alcántara Alcántara, a town on the Tagus (here crossed by a bridge cantara, whence the name), is situated in the plain of Estremadura, a great field of conflict… …
82Benedictines, Order of — Originating in Italy, the Benedictines played a central role in the Christianization of Austria. Their first establishments date from the 7th through the 10th centuries. During this time, they were often competing with Irish monastic practice …
83The Carmelite Order — The Carmelite Order † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Carmelite Order One of the mendicant orders. Origin The date of the foundation of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been under discussion from the fourteenth century to …
84Military order — Flag of the Knights Templar A military order is a Christian society of knights that was founded for crusading, i.e. propagating and/or defending the faith (originally Catholic, after the reformation sometimes Protestant), either in the Holy Land… …
85Teutonic Order — a religious military order founded c1190 in the Holy Land by German crusaders that originally did charitable work among the sick and later fought against the Slavic and Baltic peoples in the eastward expansion of medieval Germany. Also called… …
86Military Order of Calatrava — Military Order of Calatrava † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Military Order of Calatrava Founded in Castile, in the twelfth century, as a military branch of the great Cistercian family. In the Cistercian Order, then only recently formed… …
87Gilbertine Order — The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest. It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at the… …
88BENEDICTINE ORDER — one of the great MONASTIC Orders which evolved out of the work of BENEDICT and was based on his MONASTIC RULE. The Order encouraged both learning and the practice of PIETY. It played an important role in the development of Western LITURGY. Its …
89Lebanese Maronite Order — The Lebanese Maronite Order (known also as Baladites or Valadites), is a monk order among the Levantine Catholic Maronite Church, which from the beginning has been specially a monastic Church. The order was founded in 1694 in the Monastery of… …
90Holy Shankaracharya Order — (est. 1974) The Holy Shankaracharya Order was founded in 1974 by Swami Lakshmy Devyashram (d. 1981), a disciple of Swami SHIVANANDA SARASWATI (1887–1963). Swami Lakshmy had started on a spiritual path alone when she met the late Shivananda,… …
