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Meanings of augustinian canons in English

Portuguese
ordem dos cónegos regrantes de santo agostinho
Catalan
orde de canonges regulars
Spanish
canónigos agustinos
Wikidata

Order of the Catholic church; Canons regular according to St. Augustine's rule.

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ordem dos cónegos regrantes de santo agostinho
Usage of augustinian canons in English
1
The word is appropriate here as Steyn was a house of Augustinian canons.
Selections from Erasmus: Principally from his Epistles
2
Augustinian Canons (Canons Regular); Assumptionists; Eremites; Friars; nuns
Christianity: the first three thousand years
3
At the age of twenty he was persuaded, somewhat against his will, to enter the order of Augustinian Canons at Steyn.
The Age of the Reformation
4
In the time of Hilary, in the year 1150, the secular college of canons was converted into a Priory of Augustinian Canons.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory / A ...
5
By the beginning of the twelfth century (1123) he founded and endowed a priory of regular Augustinian canons, making his chaplain the first prior.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle / A Descript...