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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

Black Monks

           

Benedictine Nun

Benedictine

Franciscan Friar

Franciscan



Franciscan Minoress (Poor Clares)

Franciscan

Gilbertine Canon

Gilbertine



Gilbertine Nun

Gilbertine

Trinitarian

Trinitarian


Carmelite Friar

Carmelite

Premonstratensian Canon

Premon



Cluniac Monk

Cluniac

Cistercian Monk

Cistercian


Carthusian Monk

Cathusian

Augustine Canon

augustine


Friar of the Sack

Sack

Dominican Friar

Dominican


Austin Friar

Austin

Knight Templar

templar


Knight Hopitaller

Hospitaller

     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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