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- noun Plural form of
Hieronymite .
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Examples
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In 1389 the Hieronymites received the monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Estramadura, and made it their principal house.
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The tradition of Jerome as a scholar and the rise of the Hieronymites led to the popularity of St Jerome in the thirteenth cetury and beyond.
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His life and works attracted a following and great influence in Spain especially through the Hieronymites
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In this painting the white and brown habits of the saints are those worn by the Hieronymites
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In the article we can read: Not only did Jerome's Roman cult prosper during the fourteenth century, but it spread across Europe as the saint was adopted as special patron by remarkably varied groups of devout lay people and clerics, such as the prosperous Bologna law professor, Giovanni D'Andrea died 1348, or the several religious orders known collectively today as the Hieronymites.
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But some Hieronymites of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted as much.
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Among the clergy, the Hieronymites, who had been entrusted with the conversion and training of the Antillean natives, were his first active supporters.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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To commemorate the first voyage to India, the celebrated convent of the Hieronymites in Belem was erected.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Successively occupied by the Benedictines of Montmajour, the Augustinians, the Hieronymites, and finally by the Reformed Augustinians, it was, together with all the monasteries in France, suppressed and sold by the French
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Dominicans, Mercedarians and, to conjecture from the oldest lists of bishops, also Augustinians and Hieronymites.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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