Nuns
live in convents
Types of Religious Orders
1. Benedictines founded in 6th century
2. Templars and Hospitalers founded during the crusades and
combined functions of knights and monks. They cared for the sick and injured
and fought to regain the holy land.
3. Franciscans founded in 13th century by St. Francis of Assisi
and consisted of begging friars who originally wandered from place to place.
usually ministered to lower-class people
4. Dominicans founded in 13th century by St Dominic. also wandered
but ministered to educated upper class and combated heresy.