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prayer, and being joined by others, they were in 1240 formed into an order following the Augustinian rule supplemented by constitutions borrowed from the See also:

DOMINICANS

Dominicans. Soon they were able to establish houses in various parts of See also:

Italy, where within twenty-five years four provinces were formed; they also at an See also:

early date founded many houses in See also:

France, See also:

Germany and See also:

Spain, but they never came to See also:

England before the See also:

Reformation. The most illustrious member of the order and its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief propagator and organizer was St Filippo Benizi, the fifth See also:

general, who died in 1285. The order received papal approbation in 1255; in 1424 it was recognized as a Mendicant order, and in 1567 it was ranked with the four See also:

GREAT

great orders of Mendicant friars. The Servites undertook See also:

MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions in Tartary, See also:

India and See also:

JAPAN

Japan. As in the other orders there were various mitigations and relaxations of the rule, producing a variety of reforms, the chief being that of the eremitical Servites. There are at the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

day 64 Servites houses, mostly in Italy; there are two or three in England and in See also:

AMERICA

America. There are Servite nuns and also See also:

TERTIARIES (Lat. tertiarii, from tertius, third)

tertiaries, founded by St Juliana Falconieri, 1305, who are widespread and devote them-selves chiefly to See also:

PRIMARY

primary See also:

EDUCATION

education. They have several convents in England. The See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of the Servites is See also:

black.

The chief See also:

WORK

work on the Servites is the Monumenta by Morini and Soulier, 1897, &c. See See also:

HELYOT, PIERRE (1660-1716)

Helyot, Histoire See also:

des ordres religieux (1715), iii. cc. 39-41; Max Heimbucher Orden u. Kongregationen (1907), ii. § 73; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchenlexicon (2nd ed.); See also:

Herzog-Hauck Realencyklopddie (3rd ed.). The most interesting See also:

PART

part of Servite See also:

HISTORY

history is told by P. Soulier, See also:

Vie de S. Philippe Benizi (1886). (E. C.

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