Ixxii. PROLEGOMENA. 



1. Cruciferi, varying in different counlries. They 



are also called Monks of (be Holy Cross. 



2. Amidaei or Amici Dei, at Lisbon. 



3. Saccharii, founded as early as 1261. 



4. Friars of St. John the Baptist, in Navarre. 



5. Orders of Mercy. 



The Suppressed or Extinct Orders are the Flagellant-!, 

 Beguarts, Penitents blancs, verts, and rouges, both male 

 and female ; Gerondines, Freres de St. Joseph, Freres de 

 St. Helene, Freres de St. Sophie, Stelliferi, Gladiferi, 

 Clavegcri, Thuriferi, Speculatores, and many others, male 

 and female ; besides Military Orders which sprang out of 

 the Chivalrous Spirit of the times, as Knights of St. John 

 of Malta, Knights Templars, and many more. 



Of all these Religious Orders the reader may find a 

 fuller account in the Bollandists, in the writers of the 

 history of the Orders severally, and in a small work, em- 

 bellished with figures, published at Amsterdam, in 1700, 

 entitled Histoire des Ordres Religieux. There is also a 

 small Dictiomiaire des Ordres Religieux. For splendid 

 plates of their costumes, see Recueille de P Histoire det 

 Ordres, &c. 6 vols, folio, par Bar. Paris, 1778. 



7. SOCIETY OF JESUS, vulgarly called Jesuits; 

 and in France, Compagnie de Je.^us ; instituted by St. 

 Ignatius of Loyola, a noble Spaniard, in the early part 

 of the 16th century, and confirmed by a bull of Pope Paul 

 [II. on the 27th Sept. 1540. 



This Society may be said to be distinct from the 

 Regular Orders, inasmuch as the Jesuits have no choir, 

 bat live in the world, making the life of Jesus Christ their 

 model. Thus, whatever objection vvorldlj- people may- 

 raise against the Monks of the Cell, or the Hermits of 

 the Wilderness, will not apply to the Jesuits. This In- 

 stitute had for its object the education of youth, and the 



