Religious Habit - Habits of Roman Catholic Religious Orders - Examples of Roman Catholic Religious Habits

Examples of Roman Catholic Religious Habits

• The habit of the Carmelite Order is brown and includes the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (also known as Brown Scapular).

• The habit of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor and Friars Minor Capuchin is usually brown or gray; the habit of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual and Third Order Regular is black, although the Order of Friars Minor (Conventual) is returning to the grey habit worldwide.

• The habit of the Benedictines is black (the style varies depending upon the monastery).

• The habit of the Carthusians is white (a novice wears a black cloak over the white Carthusian habit).

• The habit of the Dominicans is black and white.

• Cistercians in their habit (with the black Scapular).

• Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, Regent of the Low Countries, as a Poor Clare Nun (Peter Paul Rubens, 1625)

• Mother Teresa in the distinctive habit (based on the Indian sari) of the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded.

• The habit of the Trinitarian Order is white with a distinctive cross with a blue horizontal bar and a red vertical bar.

• Oratorians wear roughly the same vestments as parish priests. The distinctive Oratorian clerical collar consists of white cloth that folds over the collar all around the neck.

• Nuns belonging to the Daughters of Charity

• Habit of a Trappist monk.

• Habit of a Premonstratensian

• Pauline Pius Przeździecki

• The Hieronymites wear a white tunic with a brown, hooded scapular and a brown mantle.

• The Mercedarians wear white.

• Abbot Ca.1900