Regular Canons
regular, canons
Canons regular are clerics who live in community, performing work relating to the Divine mysteries, and presided over by one of their own order. Most canons regular follow the rule which Saint Augustine gave to his own clergy, hence their name Austin Canons. They date their institute from Apostolic times, claiming to have been founded by Christ Himself, though this seems to mean only that the various groups of canons established at different times adopted a mode of life like that of the Apostles . They include the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception, and the Canons Regular of the Lateran.
Canonesses regular are congregations of religious women similar to the canons regular, following the Rule of Saint Augustine, sometimes modified according to local conditIons. They include the Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, the Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulcher , and the Canonesses Regular of Saint Augustine of the Congregation of Notre Dame. Engaged chiefly in educational work, they have convents in France , Spain, Italy , the Netherlands, Belgium , Luxemburg, Germany , Hungary, England , Africa, the United States, Brazil , and Canada . The Congregation of the Poor Sisters of the Schools of Notre Dame, founded, 1809 , by Bishop Wittman in Bavaria , has spread throughout Europe and America .
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Regular Canons
(Lat. Canonici Regulares, canons bound by rule), the name given, after the reform introduced into the system of cathedral clergy in the 11th century, to the members of those canonical bodies which adopted that reform. They were thus distinguished from the so-called secular canons, who continued exempt from rule, and who are represented down to modern times by the canons, prebendaries, and other members of cathedral chapters, in those churches in which the full cathedral system of the Romiia’ Catholic Church is maintained. The rules of the regular canons being variously modified in different countries and ages, a variety of religious orders arose therefrom Augustinians, Premonstratensians, etc. SEE CANONS, REGULAR.