Congregation of the Feuillants

The Feuillants ( Feuillants, lat Fulienses ) was a Cistercian Congregation, which was founded in 1574 by Jean de la Barrière Les Feuillants in southern France, to counteract the then secularization of the Order. They were confirmed in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V.

Already in 1595 came at the express will of the Pope's very mildly observances at the site of the former severity. The Abbot of Feuillants, whose appointment Henry IV anheimgab the General Chapter, was exempt from the jurisdiction of the mother monastery of Citeaux.

Soon the number of Feuillants monasteries in France and Italy rose up against 60th Urban VIII divided it thus (1630 ) into two congregations, the French Congregation de Notre Dame de Feuillants that was preserved until the time of flowering of the French Revolution, and called the Italian, which i Riformati di San Bernardo ( " the Reformed St. Bernhard" ).

Each had its own General Chapter and their own Abbot General. The clothes were the same for both: white cowl without scapular, large, also white hood and white belt, with the lay brothers a rope, she did not took off in the choir; a hat was only allowed to travel. After a no less strict observance Barrière also had a congregation of nuns, called Feuillantinnen or Fulienserinnen donated.

The former convent of Feuillants to Paris was a meeting place of the eponymous political clubs of Feuillants which the production of a constitution modeled on the English sought, but on 28 March 1791 resolved during the revolution.

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• Men's Orders
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• Built in 1574