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SECOND ORDER
A term commonly applied to those religious orders of women whose founders had first established an order of men, notably the Franciscans and Dominicans.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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