Anniversary of the Recollection

The Order of Augustinian Recollects came into being in the 16th century when a group of Augustinian religious, under the impulse of the Holy Spirit, discovered among themselves a collective charism by which they sought to live a life of renewed fervor and of new norms...

Commemoration of all Deceased Members of the Order

Chapter VI, n. 44 of the Constitutions of Ratisbona, which were approved in the year 1290, ordered that the anniversary of all the deceased brothers be celebrated in all the communities of the Order on the day after the Octave of the Apostles Peter and Paul, that is...

Blessed Mariano de la Mata Aparicio, priest

Blessed Mariano was born in Barrio de la Puebla of Valdavia (Palencia) in the year 1905. He was ordained priest after finishing his studies in the Augustinian seminaries of Valladolid and La Vid (Burgos). Two years after, he sailed for Brazil where he exercised...

All Saints of the Order

«Among the mendicant Orders, the sacred Order of the hermits of St. Augustine has been and continues to be fecund, by the grace of God, in the field of the Catholic church, with seeds of virtue, plants of observance, flowers of wisdom and exuberant fruits of...

Blessed Frederick of Regensburg, religious

Frederick was born, lived and died in Regensburg in Bavaria. He joined the Order there in what was at the time one of its most important houses in the thriving province of Bavaria. He lived the life of a Brother, faithfully serving the community as carpenter and...
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