PROLEGOMENA. Ixi. 



1. Those who lived in the Evangelical Councils in 



the world, preaching faith, as the Evangelists, 

 Apostles, and the Disciples of Christ. 



2. St. Mary Magdalen, the great model of peniteols. 



3. St. Phoebe, St. Thecla, and early female penitentjs 



in general. 



4. St. Paul, the first hermit, see Jan. 15. 



.5. St. Anthony, the first monk, Jan. 17, who col- 

 lected monks into monasteries. 



6. The Anchorites, Coenobites, Pillar Saints, and 



other Solitaries of the eastern deserts. 



7. St. Thaisis and the tirst cloistered penitents. 



IV, The RELIGIOUS ORDERS, which began in 

 the fourth and fifth centuries to be more regularly organised 

 in community, and lived under particular Vows. Besides 

 numbers of less regular modern Hermits, individuals doing 

 particular penances, those who have made private vows of 

 obligation to particular Saints or Orders, occasional 

 Pilgrims, those who walk perpetually in Palmer's weeds, 

 and devout Votarists in general secular as well as regular, 

 clerical and lay, making up the bulk of Catholic Sanctity. 

 We may arrange them as follows, for the sake of a more 

 ea.sy understanding of them. 



1. The ORDERS OF REGULAR CANONS or 

 Clerks, of early foundation, but afterwards placed under the 

 rule of St. Austin, to wit — 



1. Canons of St. JohnLateran, founded by St. James 



the Great, who subsequently submitted to 

 the rule of St. Austin. 



2. Hospitallers of St. John, of Jerusalem. 



3. Canons of St. Mark, of Mantua:* antient. 



4. Clerks Secular of the Oratory, founded by St. 



Phillip Neri. 



* See Bull of Pope Innocent III. 



