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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Pauline Congregation of the Mother of God, a secular order founded at Rome by Joseph Calasanza about 1600 and sanctioned a few years later.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the
Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.
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