Difference between revisions of "Bethlehemites"

== [[Charles]] [[Buck]] [[Theological]] [[Dictionary]] == <p> A sect called also Star-bearers, because they were distinguished by a red star having five rays, which they wore on their breast, in memory of the star which appeared to the wise men. [[Several]] authors have mentioned this order, but none of them have told us their origin, nor where their convents were situated; if we except Matthew Paris, who says that, in 1257, they obtained a settlement in England, which was at Cambridge, in Trumpington-street. </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature ==