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Meanings of regular canons in English
Catalan
orde de canonges regulars Spanish
canónigos agustinos 
Order of the Catholic church; Canons regular according to St. Augustine's rule.
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Examples for "augustinian canons"
Examples for "augustinian canons"
1
The word is appropriate here as Steyn was a house of Augustinian canons.
2
Augustinian Canons (Canons Regular); Assumptionists; Eremites; Friars; nuns
3
At the age of twenty he was persuaded, somewhat against his will, to enter the order of Augustinian Canons at Steyn.
4
In the time of Hilary, in the year 1150, the secular college of canons was converted into a Priory of Augustinian Canons.
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.
1
The place is now an abbey of reformed canons regular of St. Austin.
2
So with the very numerous houses of canons regular up and down the land.
3
The priory was dedicated to God and the Virgin, and was inhabited by a fraternity of canons regular of St. Augustine.
4
They ruined the orders who were permitted to hold worldly possessions, namely, monks, canons regular, nuns, and Brethren of the Cross, etc .
5
In the same year St. Vincent took possession of the priory of St. Lazare placed at his disposal by the canons regular of St. Victor.
1
In 1170 William of Gloster founded here on a magnificent scale a monastery of Austin Canons.
2
The buildings of the Austin canons or Black canons (so called from the colour of their habit) present few distinctive peculiarities.
Usage of regular canons in English
1
He composed for his regular canons a rule, consisting of thirty-four articles.
2
He soon filled that desert with anchorets, and built in it a monastery of regular canons.
3
This last was served by a famous monastery of regular canons of the order of St. Austin, when religious houses were abolished in Scotland.
4
The Premonstratensian regular canons, or White canons, had as many as 35 houses in England, of which the most perfect remaining are those of Easby.
5
See the Aberdeen Breviary, the chronicle of Pasley, (a great monastery of regular canons in the shire of Renfrew,) Florarium, and Buchanan, l. 5.
6
Of these congregations of Regular Canons the most celebrated were those of the