religious order

1. In Christianity , a group of men or women who live under religious vows. The three vows commonly taken are to relinquish all possessions and personal authority (vows of poverty and obedience) and not to engage in sexual relations (a vow of chastity). Religious orders are found in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church , and, although rarely, in Protestant churches . The Franciscans , Jesuits , and Trappists are religious orders.

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The complexities within that religious order, renowned for its scholars and loyalty to the pope, make for a numbing leitmotif.

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It contains 115 Indian families, and has a convent of the religious order of St. Augustine.

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Wishing to preserve their national character and distinct religious order, they meditated emigration as a colony.

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Her aims were simple and obvious: to preserve her throne, to keep England out of war, to restore civil and religious order.

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Born at Ferrara, in 1452, he early joined the religious order of Dominicans at Bologna.

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But that Religious Order is the better which is directed to the attainment of the greater good.

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