Editing Augustinians (section)

===Canons Regular===
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The [[Canons Regular]] follow the more ancient form of religious life which developed toward the end of the first [[millennium]] and thus predates the founding of the friars.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03288a.htm|author=Anthony Allaria|title=Canons and Canonesses Regular|website=New Advent |publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia|access-date=2017-12-12}}{{PD-notice}}</ref> They represent a clerical adaptation of monastic life, as it grew out of an attempt to organize communities of clerics to a more dedicated way of life, as St. Augustine himself had done. Historically it paralleled the lay movement of [[monasticism]] or the [[hermit|eremitical]] life from which the friars were later to develop. In their tradition, the [[canon (priest)|canons]] added the commitment of [[religious vows]] to their primary [[vocation]] of [[pastor]]al care. As the canons became independent of the [[diocese|diocesan]] structures, they came to form their own monastic communities. Orders of Augustine canons regular include the Canons Regular of Premontre, the Canons Regular of the Lateran, the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross and [[Canons Regular#Canons Regular of Saint Augustine|Canons Regular of St. Augustine]] (CRSA).<ref>[https://www.stift-klosterneuburg.at/en/monastery-and-order/order/history-of-the-order/ "History of the order", Stift Kloster Neuburg]</ref>