The Crusades
The Crusades The rise of religious orders: In the early 1500s, many new religious orders began in Europe, especially in Italy. Many of these were a different kind of order known as clerics, regular, or priests living under a religious rule. A religious order is a conjunction of many communities and organizations of people who live in some way different from society by their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of the religious practice of its founder. The Catholic answer to the Protestant Reformation is known as the Counter-Reformation, which resulted in the reuse of original doctrines and the emergence of new religious orders aimed at both reforms in a moral way and new missionary activity. Some of the outcome, and a large part of the enforcement, of the Council of Trent, was in the hands of just recently proposed religious orders, beyond all the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, founded in 1534 by St. Ignatius of Loyola and officially established by ...
