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CANONS REGULAR OF
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. A congregation founded in the department of Isère,
at Saint-Antoine, France, by the Abbé Dom Adrien Gréa, and approved by Pius IX
and Leo XIII, in three rescripts, 1870, 1876, and 1887. Its members have
undertaken the restoration of canonical life with its primitive observances, the
recitation of the whole of the Divine Office day and night, perpetual abstinence
and the fasts of early days. Their object is to unite the practices of ordinary
religious life to clerical functions, principally in the administration of
clerical duties and the education of young clerics. The mother-house is at
Saint-Antoine, but following the French laws of 1901 and the persecution which
was the consequence thereof, the community was transferred to Andora Stazione,
in the province of Genoa, Italy. The congregation has houses in France,
Switzerland, Italy, Scotland, and in Canada, where it was established in 1891,
at Nomingue in Ottawa and at St. Boniface in Manitoba. There are four
establishments in the Diocese of Ottawa, six in that of St. Boniface, two in
Saskatchewan and one in Prince Albert. The community is composed of eight
priests and major clerics, and of about as many scholastics, postulants and lay
brothers. The priests are successfully employed in colonization and the
education of youth.
Le Canada Ecclésiastique (Montréal, 1907).
ELIE J. AUCLAIR
Transcribed
by Dawn Felton Francis
The
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume III
Copyright ©
1908 by Robert Appleton Company
Online
Edition Copyright © 1999 by Kevin Knight
Nihil
Obstat, November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor
Imprimatur.
+John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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