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• Jesuits
• Military Orders

Resources in This Category

• Charter of Abbey of Cluny

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chart-cluny.asp
  From the Medieval Sourcebook.

• Cistercian Order Of The Common Observance

  http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=4425
  A history of the Cistercian Order founded in 1098.

• Cluny, Congregation of

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04073a.htm
  The earliest reform, which became practically a distinct order, within the Benedictine family.

• Dominicans and Black Friars

  http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/dominic.htm
  A set of short essays on the Dominicans from the BELIEVE website.

• Francis Parkman & the Jesuits of North America

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/FRPARK1.TXT
  An examination of the historical coverage the Jesuits received in North America. By John Carrigg, Professor of History at Franciscan University.

• Franciscan Order

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06217a.htm
  An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic church. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.

• Franciscan Views on Papal and Royal Sovereignty

  http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/GILLEEDS.html
  An essay contending that the Franciscans had a vital role in promoting Papal authority.

• Spirituals

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14230a.htm
  A general term denoting several groups of Friars Minor, existing in the second half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, who, in opposition to the main body of the order, pretended to observe the Rule of St. Francis in its primitive severity.

• The Cistercians in the Languedoc and medieval France

  http://www.languedoc-france.info/120502_cistercians.htm
  An introduction to the development of the Cistercian Order, and its role in the Cathar Crusades of the thirteenth century.

• The Franciscan Experience

  http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/fra/FRAmain.html
  A course on the origins of the Franciscan order.

 

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