Recollect

The term Recollect refers to a group established as a result of the reforms that were implemented in various mendicant orders during the 16th and 17th centuries, as part of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation.

It can also refer to places named after these orders because of the their significant works in those locales.

Religious Recollects

• Recollects - The Franciscan Recollection that originated in France.
• Order of Augustinian Recollects - The first Augustinian Recollection that originated in Spain as a result of the Chapter of Toledo in 1589.
• Discalced Augustinians - another Augustinian Recollection that originated in Italy in 1610.

Recollect/Recoletos as Place Names

• Paseo de Recoletos, Spain
• Rue des Récollets, Quebec City