Also Camaldulite, -dulian, -dule, -dolensian. A member of the religious order founded by S. Romuald at Camaldoli in the Apennines, at the beginning of the 11th c.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Camaldulians or Camaldunians.
1764. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist. (1844), I. 256/1. In the year 1023, Romuald, an Italian fanatic … founded the order or congregation of the Camaldolites.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., I. 373, s.v. Camaldules … [Rudolf] also established Camaldule nunneries (1086). II. 912/2. [Gregory XVI.] since 1823 general of his order, the Cameldolensians.
