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7. Order of the Visitatioa of Ihe Blessed Virgin, 



founded by St. Francis of Sales. 



8. Order of Charity, called Soeurs de la Charite, 



whose office is to attend to all works of charity 



in the world, visit hospitals, and so on. 



There are other Orders which ought to be registered 



as regular Canonesses, and some few to which, from 



their mixed nature, no Order in particular can be 



assigned. 



2. ORIENTAL MONKS, established very early 

 in the Eastern Deserts, in Egypt and Syria, to wit — 



1. Monksof St. Pacchomius, anno 330. 



2. Monks of St. Julian of Autioch. 



3. Monks of St. ApoUonias, in the Thebaide. 



4. Monks of St. Macarius, ibidem. 



5. Monks of St. Hilarion hermit of Syria. 



6. Orders several of St. Basil. 



7. Acoemetes of St. Chrysostorae. 



Virgins of the same class may be reckoned the 



1. Canonesses of St. Basil. 



2. Nuns of St. Basil. 



3. Religeuses de St. Hilaire and others. 



To this class belong also the very early Coenobites, 

 Anchorites, Hermits, and other Solitaries that made Vows, 

 and who peopled the Eastern Deserts, and lived the most 

 austere lives in the very early ages of Christianity. See 

 Sadler's Engravings of Hermits, a collection of Prints 

 in quarto. 



3. BENEDICTINE ORDERS, originating with St. 

 B^iedict, and first founded and submitted to the original 

 Benedictine Rule, on Mount Cassino, in Italy, about the 

 year 530. Of this Rule there have been numerous 

 monasteries, and subsequently many Reformed Orders, 

 of all which the following is but a small list of the principal 



