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The Dominican Order was established during the Middle Ages at a time when men of God were no longer expected to stay behind the walls of a cloister.Instead, they travelled among the people, taking as their examples the apostles of the primitive Church.
Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) founded 1209 [2] Order of Preachers (Dominicans) founded 1216 [3] Order of Saint Augustine (Augustinians) founded in 1244 [4] Other mendicant orders recognized by the Holy See today are the Order of the Most Blessed Trinity (Trinitarians) sometimes called the Red Friars, founded 1193
Dominican University of California in San Rafael, California (since 1890) Corpus Christi Monastery in New York City (since 1891) Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois (since 1901) Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. (since 1905) Saint Agnes Academy in Houston (since 1906) Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle (since 1908)
Dominican-inspired Les Frères de Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, [6] France. Fraternity of the Transfiguration; Redemptorists-Traditional Redemptorist Missioners [7] in Mussey, MI - United States; Benedictine monks from Abbey of Our Lady of the Conception; Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [8] Benedictine monks from Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery ...
The dominance of the Benedictine monastic way of life began to decline towards the end of the twelfth century, which saw the rise of the mendicant Franciscans and nomadic Dominicans. [7] Benedictines by contrast, took a vow of "stability", which professed loyalty to a particular foundation in a particular location.
During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church established a number of missions in the Americas and other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans in order to spread Catholicism in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous people.
Founded in 1947, the Abbey of Regina Laudis was one of the first houses of contemplative Benedictine nuns in the United States. [6] St. Mary's Abbey. located in Glencairn, County Waterford, Ireland, was founded in 1932. It is a Trappistine monastery, i.e., a branch of the Cistercians. [7] The Passionist nuns were founded in Italy in 1771.
First the Franciscans set up parishes, then the Dominicans, Augustinians, and Jesuits followed. These orders are discussed in more detail previously in this article. To begin the process of constructing a new parish, the priests entered an indigenous village and first converted the leaders and nobles, called caciques. These conversions were ...