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Encyclopedia Britannica



BETHLEHEMITES

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 829 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BETHLEHEMITES , a name borne at different times by three orders in the Roman Catholic Church. (1) A community of friars at
Cambridge
 , in 1257, whose habit was distinguished from that of the
ordinary
  Dominicans by a five-rayed red
star
  (in reference to Matt. ii. 9 f). (2) An order of
knighthood
  similar to the Knights of St John, established by Pius II. in 1459 to resist the inroads of the Turks. (3) The Bethlehemite Order of Guatemala, a nursing community founded in 16so by Pedro Betancourt (d. 1667), extended by the brothers Rodrigo and Antonio of the
Cross
 , and raised to an order by Innocent NI. in 1687. They wore a dress like that of the Capuchins, and Clement XI. in 1707 gave them the privileges of the meadicant orders. They spread throughout Central America and
Mexico
  and as far
south
  as
Lima
 , and with the order of sisters, founded in 1668 by Anna Maria del Galdo, were conspicuous for their devotion during times of plague and other contagious diseases. This order became
extinct
  about 1850. The name Bethlehemites has also sometimes been given to the Hussites of Bohemia because their leader preached in the Bethlehem church at Prague.


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