Editing Celestines (section)

{{Short description|Former Roman Catholic monastic order}}
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[[File:Religieux célestin.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Religious habit of the Celestine Order (18th century image).]]

The '''Celestines''' were a [[Roman Catholic]] [[monasticism|monastic]] [[Order (religious)|order]], a branch of the [[Benedictine]]s, founded in 1244.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9Qwkh0DKxwC|title=Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages|last=Guenée|first=Bernard|translator-last=Goldhammer|translator-first=Arthur|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year= 1991|isbn=0-226-31032-9}}</ref> At the foundation of the new rule, they were called [[Hermit]]s of St Damiano, or Moronites (or Murronites), and did not assume the appellation of Celestines until after the election of their founder, Peter of Morone (Pietro Murrone), to the [[Papacy]] as [[Pope Celestine V|Celestine V]].<ref name=Loughlin/> They used the post-nominal initials '''O.S.B. Cel.'''<ref>{{cite website |url=http://www.gcatholic.org/orders/233.htm |title=Benedictine Congregation of the Celestines (O.S.B. Cel.)| website=GCatholic.org |first=Gabriel |last=Chow | access-date=June 20, 2016| location=Toronto|date=12 January 2025}}</ref> The last house closed in 1785.<ref>[https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095557414;jsessionid=3A81146C7E6D5439B3DBF2D094553352 "Celestine Order", '' The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' (2nd ed., (E. A. Livingstone, ed.) OUP, 2006] {{ISBN|9780198614425}}</ref>