The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule (Latin: regula and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology. As religious communities, they have laybrothers as part of the community.
At times, their Orders have been very popular: in England in the 12th century, there were more houses of canons (often referred to as an abbey or canonry) than monasteries of monks.[1]
- ^ Heale, Martin (30 September 2013). "Regular Canons". Medieval Studies. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780195396584-0083. ISBN 978-0-19-539658-4.