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What are the two mendicant orders, and who founded them?

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What were mendicant orders?The mendicant orders surviving today are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians (Augustinian Hermits), Carmelites, Trinitarians, Mercedarians, Servites, Minims, Hospitalers of St. John of God, and the Teutonic Order.Jul 20, 1998
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The Franciscans and the Dominicans and were founded by St. Francis and St. Dominic
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