This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

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1894. Vols. 1 and 2. This work contains a compendious and popular sketch of the rise and progress of the principal monastic, canonical, military, mendicant, and clerical orders and congregations of the eastern and western churches, together with a brief history of the Catholic Church in relation to religious orders.

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1894. Vols. 1 and 2. This work contains a compendious and popular sketch of the rise and progress of the principal monastic, canonical, military, mendicant, and clerical orders and congregations of the eastern and western churches, together with a brief history of the Catholic Church in relation to religious orders.