The Order of the Very Holy Trinity for the Redemption of the prisoners , or more usually Order of the Holy Trinity , was founded in 1194 by the French Jean de Matha (1154 - 1213, born with Falcon-with-Barcelonnette) to repurchase the Christians captive of the infidels.
The order is founded close to Brumetz (Aisne), and confirmed by the pope Innocent III the December 17th 1198 by the bubble divine Operante dispositionis . The tradition trinitaire sees in Felix de Valois the cofounder of the Order, companion of Jean de Matha in the loneliness of Cerfroid . It is in Cerfroid that is established the first community trinitaire. This is why one regards this house as head office of all the Kind.
The members of this kind are also called Trinitaires , or Mathurins , of the name of their church to Paris, Saint-Mathurin, or Frères with the asses , according to their mounting.
It is the first official institution of the Catholic church which devotes itself to the service of the redemption without weapons to the hand, without another armor that the mercy and in the only intention to give again the hope with brothers in the faith who suffer under the yoke from the captivity.
Jean de Matha founds a nun life plan in the Church, new and original, whose texture is deeply evangelic. He attaches the Trinité and the redemption of the prisoners: the Order is the Order of the Holy Trinity and the Redemption of the Prisoners, and the brothers of Jean de Matha are the brothers of the Holy Trinity and the Redemption of the prisoners.
The Règle written by Jean de Matha is the principle and the base of the Trinitaire Order. Adapted during 800 years by the tradition, mainly by the spirit and the work of the reformer Jean Baptist of the Design, it is prolonged in the Trinitaires Constitutions approved by the the Holy See.
Nowadays, the trinitaires are approximately 600, including 400 priests, who devote themselves to caritative activities, whose reception of the prisoners.
See too
Related articles
- List of the catholic congregations
- List of the catholic monastic orders
- Religious orders alphabetically
- History of the Christian congregations
External bonds
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Site of Trinitaires in Paris
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