He also served as the Cardinal Protector of the Cistercian Order, as well as of the Bernardine nuns and the Basilian monks, as well as of Bergamo and numerous towns and groups.
When the park was acquired by the Bernardines during the 18th century, the monks drained the territory and established a park, mainly used by their religious community.
Cistercians, a Roman Catholic religious order, sometimes called the Bernardines
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Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis, a Roman Catholic religious order based in Pennsylvania, United States
In 1602 Jan Karol Chodkiewicz built the first wooden church in Kretinga and established a Benedictine monastery, which became a great success.
St. Anne's Church is part of an ensemble, comprising the much larger Gothic Church of St. Francis and Bernadine, as well as a monastery.
The city was established in 1696 by Władysław Sokołowski, who brought there Bernardines, founded a church and a monastery.
In 1910 died the last monk of Bernard Order in Iziaslav; it was only in 1914 when bernardines managed to come back to their abode.