The Reformation, the religious wars and the Revolution have swept away nearly all the canons regular, but some of their houses in Austria still exist in their medieval splendour.
Some thirty congregations of canons regular of St Augustine are numbered.
St. Serf established on the secluded little isle of Lochleven, and merged both that and the Culdee house of Monymusk into the new priory of canons regular of St. Austin established at St. Andrews.
Chief among these are those which are performed in the divine mysteries, and these are the direct object of the orders of canons regular, the members of which are essentially religious clerics.
Further, seemingly the same judgment applies to canons regular as to monks, according to Extra, De Postul.
Further, the profession of monks is stricter than that of canons regular (Extra, De Statu Monach.
This was the famous Gerard Groote, the founder, as already noted, of the Devout Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life, and through them of the Windesheim Congregation of Canons Regular.
When a friend of Gerard's, Reinalt Minnenvosch, projected the founding of a monastery, Groote advised him to establish a Priory of Canons Regular on the model of Groenendael.
The same may be said of the superior of those houses of Canons Regular, and other bodies, where the chief official was a prior.
In the same year the Clerks at Alberghen, near Oldenzale, received the habit of Holy Religion in the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustine, and they were invested on the day of the Finding of the Holy Cross.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canons regular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
