1. Religious Orders And Communities.
After the Vandal invasion of North Africa in 428 a number of the fugitive hermits established monastic communities in central and northern Italy. ... The dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII included all those belonging to the Austin Friars. After 1800 the Augustinians were suppressed entirely in France, Spain, and Portugal, and partly suppressed in Italy and southern Germany. ... It was not until 1425 that permission to hold property was granted to certain houses by Pope Martin V; it was extended to the entire order by Pope Sixtus IV in 1477. The first Dominican house was ...
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