BARNABITES, a religious order ecclesiastically known by the name of "Clerics Regular of St. Paul," founded in 1530 by Antonio Maria Zaccaria (1502-1539, canonized 1897) and con firmed as an order by the Vatican in 1535 and 1579. In addition to monastic devotion, their vocation included education and mis sionary work among the multitudes reduced to material and moral misery by the contemporary wars. They were also com mitted to special study of the Pauline Epistles. In 1538 the order acquired the ancient church of St. Barnabas in Milan (hence the name by which it is commonly known). It has never spread widely. There are 20 monasteries in Italy and a few in Austria, Belgium and Spain.