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The Augustinians were Roman Catholic monastic orders. They were groups for monks in training. Martin Luther became a monk there and then started the Reformation and the Lutheran denomination.

The name comes from Augustine of Hippo.

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    Peter Fourier, leader of the reform of the Canons Regular in the former Duchy of Lorraine, wearing the sarozium

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    Ruins of Jasienice Abbey, a former Augustinian priory in Jasienica, Police, Poland (14th century)

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    St. Stanislaus of Kazimierz, C.R.L. (1433–1489).

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    Martin Luther (1483–1546), in the habit of the Augustinian Order. Luther was an Augustinian friar from 1505 until his excommunication in 1520. Luther would later renounce his religious vows and marry Katharina von Bora in 1525.

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    Abbot Gregor Mendel, O.S.A. (1822–1884).
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    Fr. Abraham a Sancta Clara, O.A.D. (1644–1709).
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    St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A. (1381–1457).


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