Filippini, 1628-1805.
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Servites
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In 1233 seven wealthy Florentine city councillors left their native city to retire outside the gate of Balla in an area known as Cafaggio for a life of poverty and penance. There was at first no thought of founding an order but only a desire for a life in the spirit of the primitive church. These men are known collectively as the Seven Founders of the Servites and were canonized by Leo XIII in 1888. In 1240 the bishop of Florence approved the community under the name Servants of St. Mary, select...
Oratorians
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The original Oratory grew out of the community of priests that had gathered around St. Philip Neri (1515-1595), son of a Florentine notary, who went to Rome in 1533. In 1548 he became the cofounder of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity for the care of pilgrims and convalescents, which in the year of the Jubilee (1575) assisted 145,000 people. From these activities the Congregation of the Oratory was born, probably so called from the room at San Girolamo where their meetings were held. St...