Celestines

For other uses, see Celestines (disambiguation).
Religious habit of the Celestine Order (18th century image).

The Celestines were a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.[1] 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.[2] They used the post-nominal initials O.S.B. Cel.[3] The last house closed in 1785.[4]

  1. ^ Guenée, Bernard (1991). Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages. Translated by Goldhammer, Arthur. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-31032-9.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Loughlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Benedictine Congregation of the Celestines (O.S.B. Cel.)" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved June 20, 2016
  4. ^ "Celestine Order", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2nd ed., (E. A. Livingstone, ed.) OUP, 2006 ISBN 9780198614425