These prints are from R.P. Helyot's book, Histoire des Ordres Religieux et Militaires (History of Religious and Military Orders), first published in Paris in 1714. The author made extensive travels throughout Europe, which provided him with ample opportunity to gather material for his work on religious and military orders, as well as to discuss the history of male and female congregations up to his own time. He presents their origins, growth, decline, liquidation, or dissolution, supplementing the text with biographies of the founders and illustrations of various monastic habits. Thus, our order can also be found in the book, together with our predecessors, the Cellites.