Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadCharles Buck Theological Dictionary: CROISIERS
Subjects in this Topic:
A religious order, founded in honour of the invention or discovery of the cross by the empress Helena. They were, till of late, dispersed in several parts of Europe, particularly in the Low Countries, France, and Bohemia; those of Italy were suppressed even before the late revolutions. These religious follow the rule of St. Augustine. They had in England the name of Crouched Friars.