This year, the feast of St. Augustine is being celebrated with a special importance upon reaching the 650 years of the construction of its monumental sepulcher, which is being conserved in the Church of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro, in Pavia, at the northern part of...
In that day said my mother, “Son, for myself, I have no longer any pleasure in anything in this life. What I want here further, and why I am here, I know not, now that my hopes in this world are satisfied. There was indeed one thing for which I wished to tarry a...
The liturgical feast of Saint Pius X is celebrated today, August 21. He is a saint who has special importance to the Augustinian Recollects. After more than 300 years of existence, the religious institute entered into its contemporary phase with Pope Pius X in the...
This coming 16th September will mark the hundred years of the papal briefReligiosas Familias, by which St. Pius X declared the Augustinian Recollects to be areligious Order. Behind that there stand the 324 years of Augustinian Recollect history.This centenary...
The Institute Fray Manuel Simon (IFMS) was closed in 2005 taking the name of one of the Augustinian Recollects who passed through the City of Castelo, in the State of Espiritu Santo, at the Southern part of Brazil. This Institute joins together public and private...