HIERON, The name of two rulers of Syracuse. See 11 t F.R0 1. and IT.
HIERONYMITES, 1117.4..4mq nips. The emit mon name of four association of hermits in Spain and Rally. who all regarded Saint derome a• their pat roll and eXaliiple. hence derk t heir I ) The Sp:kill-di congregation founded in the reign of Alfonso Xl. of Castile I 312 51) ) I,c ,11111. dl.rr plc. 1 It nt 11 hermit whit 111111 in Northern Italy and observed Ilic l'raineiscall rule. Their tutu earliest were in the near 'Toledo. Their numbers soon grew., and inelinled many person, of rank and station. such as Ferdinand Pecha. principal chamberlain to Pedro I\ .. and hi, brother .\1 fonso, Bishop of .lace. The for..., obtained for their association from ("regory Xl. in 137:1, under the rude of Saint Alignstine, and regarded as the real founder of the ( ity 1-113 t hey had (I twenty•live cloisters, among them that of San de •uste. N‘ jell the Emperor ('harts'- V. passed hi. last years. That of lelein. Hoar Lisbon, bceame the burial•place of the l'ortugu•se royal family. A female branch of Order Nt Nlaria 1:1reials I died 1121; ) ( ) The emigre:2a I ion (>1 the Observance or of Lombardy. founded by the Spaniard. Lope the ()lined.) (1370 1-1:1:11, who became general of the foregoing (Inter in 1122. His purpose in
establishing 41 separate congregation Mal, the at tainment of still greater strictness. The rule which he drew lip was emitirriled in 1/29. but after his death was exchanged for that of Saint Angustine. The seven cloisters of the acre in 159.1 united by Philip II, '1% 011 the fm•uroji•, hut t he seven, cell Italian retained their separate existence under a general residing at to. near Lodi. ( :31 The congregation of Peter of Pisa (Pietro (Iamb:wort:1. 1355-1-135). turned from a worldly to a hermit's life in 1377 and built it church and hermitage on Monte bello. near Urbino. Several small of Franciscan tertiaries assoeiat t with him: the principal settlement. were at leellZa and .N1:1 rit tla. lidy simple voWs were taken until 1569: but Pius V. imposed the solemn VOW: and the ..\tigustinian rule. The (inter had at one time over fifty houses, including one foninh•41 at in Bavaria in 1688. and removed to in 1725. ( I I The emigrega t ion of founded by Ca rio di .lotite granelli and confirmed by Innocent VII. in 1-10(1.
came to pose.' more than forty houses, in the Convent of Vincent and .\nas tashis hi Bonn• but slippressed as a separate organization by Pope Clement IX. in 111)-1s.