Celestines Sentence Examples
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He became professor of theology at Naples in 1740, and, entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order.
Indeed, though the Celestines are reckoned as a branch of the Benedictines, there is little in common between them.
The habit of the Celestines was black.
Living as a hermit on Monte Morrone near Sulmone in the Abruzzi, he attracted other ascetics about him and organized them into a congregation of the Benedictines which was later called the Celestines.
About 1588, he determined to fulfil a vow which he had once made to enter a cloister; but being rejected by the Carthusians and the Celestines, he held himself absolved, and continued to follow his old profession.