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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.
The Crosiers, formally known as the Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross, abbreviated OSC, is a Catholic religious order of canons regular of Pontifical Right for men. It is one of the Church's oldest religious orders, and membership consists of priests and brothers who live together according to the Rule of St. Augustine.
Clairlieu convent in Huy, Belgium
Crosiers from Europe with Pope Pius XII during an audience in Vatican City
Crosier Fathers from the Netherlands, in Campo Belo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Image: Kruisheren 1964 Canons Regular of the Order Sanctae Crucis