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Augustinian rule

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a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.

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Obliged to submit to the Augustinian rule, they added a fourth vow dedicating themselves to "the instruction of young girls and their education in Christian piety, virtues, and morality, and in the works and exercises suitable for their sex.
From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation ... by Adams, Thomas M. / Journal of Social History
Information about contemporary notions of abbesses' identity is also forthcoming from the convent of Santa Maria delle Vergini in Venice, which belonged to the order of San Marco Evangelista di Mantova and followed the Augustinian rule.
Elections of Abbesses and Notions of Identity in Fifteenth- and ... by LOWE, KATE / Renaissance Quarterly
follow the Rule of Saint Benedict or some form of it--as opposed to apostolic orders, such as the Franciscans, who follow the Rule of Saint Francis, or the Dominicans under the Augustinian rule.
Monks: still living by the rule by Cunningham, Ginny / U.S. Catholic
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