... under a distinctive rule, or discipline. The members of the greater number of Christian religious orders are ordained priests, although lay members are admitted as brothers and nuns to some; a number of orders are for women only. Augustinians Augustinians, religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church whose constitution is derived ... spread the order through the countries of central and western Europe; it soon became the only important order in those lands, remaining so until the founding of the Augustinian Canons in the 11th century and of the mendicant orders in the 13th century. Gre...

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