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JESUATI , a religious See also:order founded by Giovanni Colombini of See also:Siena in 136o. Colombini had been a prosperous See also:merchant and a senator in his native See also:city, but, coming under ecstatic religious influences, abandoned See also:secular affairs and his wife and daughter (after making See also:provision for them), and with a friend of like temperament, See also:Francesco Miani, gave himself to a See also:life of apostolic poverty, See also:penitential discipline, See also:hospital. service and public See also:preaching. The name Jesuati was given to Colombini and his disciples from the See also:habit of calling loudly on the name of Jesus at the beginning and end of their ecstatic sermons. The See also:senate banished Colombini from Siena for imparting foolish ideas to the See also:young men of the city, and he continued his See also:mission in See also:Arezzo and other places, only to be honourably recalled See also:home on the outbreak of a devastating pestilence. He went out to meet See also:Urban V. on his return from See also:Avignon to See also:Rome in 1367, and craved his See also:sanction for the new order and a distinctive habit. Before this was granted Colombini had to clear the See also:movement of a suspicion that it was connected with the heretical See also:sect of See also:Fraticelli, and he died on the 31st of See also:July 1367,soon after the papal approval had been given. The guidance of the new order, whose members (all See also:lay See also:brothers) gave themselves entirely to See also:works of See also:mercy,devolved upon Miani. Their See also:rule of life, originally a See also:compound of See also:Benedictine and Franciscan elements, was later modified on Augustinian lines, but traces of the See also:early penitential See also:idea persisted, e.g. the wearing of sandals and a daily flagellation. See also:Paul V. in 16o6 arranged for a small proportion of clerical members, and later in the 17th See also:century the Jesuati became so secularized that the members were known as the Aquavitae Fathers, and the order was dissolved by See also:Clement IX. in 1668. The See also:female See also:branch of the order, the Jesuati sisters, founded by Caterina Colombini (d. 1387) in Siena, and thence widely dispersed, more consistently maintained the See also:primitive strictness of the society and survived the male branch by 200 years, existing until 1872 in small communities in See also:Italy. End of Article: JESUATIAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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