Editing Servite Order (section)

==Devotions, manner of life==
[[File:Basilica della santissima annunziata, Cappella di San Giuliano o di San Giuseppe, cupola.JPG|thumb|200px|Ceiling in the Servite mother church, [[Santissima Annunziata, Florence]]]]
In common with all religious orders strictly so called, the Servites make [[solemn vows]] of [[poverty, chastity, and obedience]]. The particular object of the order is to sanctify first its own members, and then all men through devotion to the Mother of God, especially in her desolation during the Passion of her Divine Son.{{Cn|date=June 2021}}

All offices in the order are elective and continue for three years, except that of [[general]] and assistant-generals which are for six years.{{Cn|date=June 2021}}

The Servites give missions, have the care of souls, or teach in higher institutions of learning. The [[Rosary of the Seven Sorrows]] is one of their devotions, as is also the [[Via Matris]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ols.org/prayer-life/congregation-devotions/devotion-to-our-lady-of-sorrows/via-matris/ |title=The Via Matris |date=2016 |publisher=[[The Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225171710/http://www.ols.org/prayer-life/congregation-devotions/devotion-to-our-lady-of-sorrows/via-matris/ |archive-date=2018-12-25 |url-status=live |access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>

[[Canonized]] Servite saints are: [[Philip Benizi]] (feast day on 23 August), [[Peregrine Laziosi]] (4 May), [[Juliana Falconieri]] (19 June). The [[Seven Holy Founders|seven founders of the order]] were canonized in 1888, and have a common feast day on 17 February. The date first assigned to this feast day was 11 February, the anniversary of the canonical approval of the order in 1304. Since in 1907 this date was assigned to the celebration of [[Our Lady of Lourdes]], the feast day of the Seven Holy Founders was moved to 12 February. The date was changed again in 1969 to accord more closely with  liturgical tradition, to a date which marks the anniversary of the death of one of them, [[Alexis Falconieri]], which occurred on 17 February 1310.<ref>''Calendarium Romanum'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), pp. 88 and 117</ref>