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Augustinian Canons   /ˌɑgəstˈɪniən kˈænənz/   Listen
Augustinian Canons

noun
1.
An Augustinian monastic order.





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"Augustinian Canons" Quotes from Famous Books



... seven prebendaries died. In September the abbot of St. Benet's Hulm was carried off. Again we ask and receive no answer—what must have been the mortality among the monks and the servants of the convent? And yet sometimes we do get an answer to that question. In the house of Augustinian Canons at Heveringland prior and canons died to a man. At Hickling, which a century before had been a flourishing house and been doing good work, only one canon survived. Neither of these houses ever recovered from the effects ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp
... published at Milan by Bernardo Caluschio, with a dedication—dated 1537—to Francesco Gaddi, a descendant of the famous family of Florence. This man was Prior of the Augustinian Canons in Milan, and a great personage, but ill fortune seems to have overtaken him in his latter days. Cardan writes (Opera, tom. i. p. 107):—"qui cum mihi amicus esset dum floreret, Rexque cognomine ob potentiam appellaretur, conjectus ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters


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