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Servite
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Serv´ite
n.1.(R.C.Ch.) One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.


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I loved the Servites and was proud of their intelligence, free thinking, and joyous spirit, but something strong compelled me to leave.
95 Hardcover Church, faith and culture in the medieval West N7952 The "mendicant thesis" argues that the rise of the mendicant orders--the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Servites, and Augustinians--brought about the first shifts in the visual arts of the Renaissance.
The Servites abolished the official position of "novena promoter," and the Novena Notes, by then reflecting a more progressive Vatican II theology, lost popularity among devotees and ceased publication in 1966.
 
 
 
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