Celestines

The Celestine made ​​an order within the Roman Catholic Church, the Ordo Sancti Benedicti Coelestinensis, religious symbol: OSBCoel, also: Congregation Coelestinensis.

The result is the Order in 1244 as a subdivision of the Benedictine order, from which also the founder of the Order, Pietro del Morrone, who later became Pope Celestine V was derived. It decided on a life as a hermit in the Abruzzo region on Mount Morrone ( hence its name Pietro del Morrone ) to result in Sulmona. Some like-minded people followed him and formed a spiritual community, in 1263 by Pope Urban IV recognized and the Benedictines was incorporated. Due to the huge popularity of the later Pope received the Order initially larger inlet and monasteries arose mainly in the Kingdom of Sicily. From 1300 promoted Philip the Fair in his dispute with Boniface VIII, the Celestine in France. From there were branches of the Order in the Netherlands and in Bohemia, on the mountain Oybin founded in 1366, for example, . 500 years later, in 1785, the last Cölestinerkloster closed its doors.

A significant Inquisitor from the ranks of Celestine was Peter Zwicker († 1403 ).