The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are priests who live in community under a rule 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.
Visitation memento mori, painter unknown, c.1500, juxtaposing pregnancy and death, with four Augustinan canons regular of the Chapter (Abbey) of Sion. Left, with little lion, is Jerome; right, holding a heart, is Augustine. Rijksmuseum
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Ballybeg Priory, founded in 1229 by Philip de Barry for the Canons Regular of St Augustine
Abbess Joanna van Doorselaer de ten Ryen, Waasmunster Roosenberg Abbey.
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.
Saint Augustin by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645
Saint Augustine Taken to School by Saint Monica, by Niccolò di Pietro, 1413–15
The earliest known portrait of Augustine in a 6th-century fresco, Lateran, Rome
Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica (1846) by Ary Scheffer