Celestines

The Celestines were a Roman Catholic monastic order and branch of the Benedictines that grew out of the community of hermits gathered around Peter of Morone on the Mountain of Majella near Sulmona, Italy, originally known as the Hermits of St Damian or Moronites. The community took the name Celestines after Peter of Morone's election as Pope Celestine V in 1294, and used the designation O.S.B. Cel. to mark its Benedictine origin. Peter formulated a rule around 1254 stricter than the standard Benedictine rule, Pope Urban IV approved the order in 1264, and it spread through Italy, Germany, Flanders and France during the medieval period, observing practices such as prayer at 2 a.m. and near-total abstinence from meat. The order declined through the Reformation and later religious upheavals, and its last monastery closed in 1785. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/