Hippolyte Hélyot [SEP] religious order
Hippolyte Hélyot
Hippolyte Hélyot (1660–1716) was a Franciscan friar and priest of the Franciscan Third Order Regular and a major scholar of Church history, focusing on the history of the religious Orders.
He was born at Paris in January 1660, supposedly of English ancestry, and 
christened Pierre at his birth. After spending his youth in study, he entered, in his twenty-fourth year, the friary of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, founded in Picpus-—now part of Paris—-by his uncle, Jérôme Hélyot,
insignia remains the double-barred Cross of the Order.
See also.
- Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Sources.
- Max Heimbucher, "Orden und Kongregationen" (Paderborn, 1908)
- Francesca M. Steele, "Convents of Great Britain" (St. Louis, 1902)
- Hippolyte Hélyot, "Dict. des ordres relig." (Paris, 1859)
- Joseph Gillow, "Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath.", s. v. Hawley, Susan.
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