Origin from 1244
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/
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Kind of orderCatholic Religious Orders and Congregations 1 ApostolateContemplative or Monastic Prayer 1 Who may join Who may joinLay and Ordained Together 2 Origins
Origin Period Belief
Defining Doctrinal PositionCatholic Apostolic Magisterial Authority 2 Practice
Liturgical Language Liturgical Language Organisation
OrdinationHoly Orders / Apostolic Succession 2 OrdinationVowed Religious Profession (not ordained) 2 Status
Status TodayLiving tradition, practised today 1 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Governed By Polity
Source New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia: Celestine Order
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1. Celestines (Wikipedia)
Introduction, kind of order
The Celestines were a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.
Introduction, apostolate
At the foundation of the new rule, they were called Hermits of St Damiano, or Moronites (or Murronites), and did not assume the appellation of Celestines until after the election of their founder, Peter of Morone (Pietro Murrone), to the Papacy as Celestine V.
Rooted In: Roman Catholicism, Lead section
The Celestines were a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.
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Wikidata: Celestines
Wikidata Q1093546, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia: Celestine Order
New Advent, Catholic EncyclopediaGoverned By Polity: Centralised Corporate Polity, Government of the orderQuote, Governed By Polity: Centralised Corporate Polity, Government of the order
The administration of the order was carried on somewhat after the pattern of Cluny, that is all monasteries were subject to the Abbey of the Holy Ghost at Sulmona, and these dependent houses were divided into provinces.
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