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2 unusual facts about Order of Saint Augustine


1693 in literature

date unknown – Fray Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A., Spanish Augustinian friar historical writer, author of Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas (died 1746)

Michael Martin Clancy

Father Michael Martin Clancy OSA (1868–1931) was an Irish-Australian Roman Catholic priest.


Antoni Clarassó i Terès

On August 13 of 1592, Pope Clement VIII approved a bull that decreed the secularization of the regular canons of the Order of Saint Augustine from all monasteries and priories in Catalonia, Roussillon and Cerdanya.

Austin Friars St Monica's School

At the request of the Diocese of Lancaster, the Order of Saint Augustine founded Austin Friars School, a day and boarding grammar school, to provide a Catholic education for boys in Cumbria and the city of Carlisle.

Igreja dos Grilos

With the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759, by order of the Marquis of Pombal, the church was donated to the University of Coimbra until its purchase by the Discalced Friars of the Order of Saint Augustine that were there from 1780 to 1832.


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Cardinals created by Leo X

# Egidio di Viterbo, O.S.A., Master General of the Order of Saint Augustine– cardinal-priest of S. Bartolomeo all'Isola (received the title on 6 July 1517), then cardinal-priest of S. Matteo in Merulana (10 July 1517), cardinal-priest of S. Marcello (9 May 1530), † 12 November 1532

Pius Keller

Pius Keller (30 September 1825, Ballingshausen, Bavaria, Germany – 15 March 1904 Münnerstadt, Germany) was an Augustinian friar, a teacher, and a leader who revitalized The Order of Saint Augustine in Germany.