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CELESTINES , a religious order founded about r 26o by Peter of Morrone, afterwards Pope Celestine V. (1294). It was an attempt to unite the eremitical and cenobitical modes of life. Peter's first disciples lived as hermits on Mount
Benedictine
rule
there were about 150 monasteries in Italy, and others in France, Bohemia and the Netherlands. The French houses, twenty-one in number, formed a separate congregation, the head- house
Peter of Morrone was in close contact with the Franciscan Spirituals of the extreme type (see FRANCISCANS), and he endeavoured to form an amalgamation between them and his hermits, under the title " Poor Hermits of Celestine." On his abdication the amalgamation was dissolved, and the Franciscan element
East
Boniface VIII. and compelled to re-enter the Franciscan order. The habit of the Celestines was black.See Helyot
Herzog -Hauck, Realencyklopadie (ed. 3). (E. C. B.)End of Article: CELESTINES If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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