Reform of a religious order

The reform of a religious order is the return of the order from a mitigated or relaxed observance to the rigour of its primitive rule.[1] Example include the Cluniac Reforms and the English Benedictine Reform.

References
  1. Huddleston, Gilbert (1913). "Reform of a Religious Order" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.


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