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Monastic Orders and Monastic Dress

These images of monks and nuns are part of the public domain. They are scanned from English Monastic Life by F.A. Gasquet,
published in 1904 by Methuen & Co. London. Gasquet credits his source: "The figures representative of the various Religious
Orders are reduced from Dugdale's Monasticon (1655) and Stevens' Continution (1723)." The image of the Hermit is from
Rotha Mary Clay's Hermits and Anchorites of England, Chapter eight.

Click on any figure for larger versions of the image and/or for more information.
Read the whole of Gasquet's Chapter Eleven, Various Religious Orders.

Benedictine Monk

Benedictine Nun

Franciscan Friar

Franciscan Minoress (Poor Clares)

Gilbertine Canon

Gilbertine Nun

Trinitarian

Carmelite Friar

Premonstratensian Canon

Cluniac Monk

Cistercian Monk

Carthusian Monk

Augustine Canon

Friar of the Sack

Dominican Friar

Austin Friar

Knight Templar

templar

Knight Hopitaller

Hermit of the Order of St. Paul
Hermit

This illustration from The Hermits and Anchorites of England, by Rotha Mary Clay, Chapter Eight.

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