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3 unusual facts about Clerics Regular of Our Savior


Clerics Regular of Our Savior

Its special work being the education of youth, during the next half of the 19th century the congregation spread and numbered several houses, including one in Verdun, which later became a Carmel.

The congregation was founded in 1851, at the former Norbertine Abbey of Benoite-Vaux in the Department of Meuse.

The constitutions and spirit of the congregation were those of the Congregation of Canons Regular of Our Savior, which had been established in 1623 as a reform of the various canonical monasteries in the Duchy of Lorraine by St. Peter Fourier, C.R.S.A., of the Abbey of Chaumousey, and confirmed by Pope Urban VIII in 1628.



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