St. John Cantius Church (Chicago)
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Saint John Cantius Church is a historic Latin Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago known for its architecture, liturgical practices, and affiliation with the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius.
The church façade in 2015
A 1909 postcard showing St. John Cantius Church, Rectory, and School.
The Baroque interior of Saint John Cantius Church
Replica of the Veit Stoss Altar
Canon regular
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Canons regular 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.
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
Chrodegang
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.