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Redemptorist|rɪˈdɛm(p)tərɪst|
[ad. F. rédemptoriste: see redemptor and -ist.]
1. A member of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded at Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Liguori, and devoted chiefly to work among the poor.
1835J. B. Robertson in Schlegel's Philos. Hist. I. p. xlii, In conjunction with..some of the Redemptorists—a most able, amiable, and exemplary body of ecclesiastics at Vienna—he established in 1820, a religious and political journal. 1840J. R. Hope-Scott Diary in R. Ornsby Mem. J. R. Hope-Scott (1884) I. xii. 227 Viewed as instruments of the Church, he thinks that most of the orders are now of little use. Those of the Jesuits and Redemptorists, with one or two more of the same kind as the latter, he conceives to be the only effectual orders. 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous III. ix. 287, I did as the good Redemptorist bade me. 1897Catholic Dict. (ed. 5) 654/2 In his third edition Ballerini replies to the charges of laxity which the Redemptorists made against him. 1915Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 68/1 The Redemptorists have remained sturdily faithful to their primary work of giving missions and retreats. 1975Church Times 27 June 14/5 It [sc. the Roman clerical collar] is still worn by Redemptorists, Passionists and Oratorians.
2. attrib. or as adj. Belonging to the Order of the Redeemer.
1863Sala Capt. Dangerous III. ix. 283 The Blessed Old Man that was a Redemptorist Father appeared. 1876Trevelyan Macaulay (1880) I. 73 A religious house of the Redemptorist Order.
Hence Redemptoˈristine, a member of a recluse and contemplative order of nuns, associated with the Redemptorists (see quot. 1884); also attrib. or as adj.
1884Catholic Dict. 711/1 The nuns.., commonly called Redemptoristines, form the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer, as distinguished from the Congregation of missionaries. 1886T. Livius tr. Saintrain's Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (ed. 3) i. xxiv. 211 In the public chapel attached to the convent of the Redemptoristine Nuns, St. Alphonsus, Dublin, the Holy Picture has a beautiful shrine. 1931Tablet 8 Aug. 183/2 The Redemptoristine nuns from Clapham went into their new home at Chudleigh in 1925. Ibid., The Redemptoristines are established also in a number of convents in Canada, Italy, Austria, France, Belgium, Spain, Holland and Brazil. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 13 Apr. 54/1 Redemptoristines. Founded by St Alphonsus Liguori at Amalfi, Italy, in 1731. |