Olivetans

Olivetans, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, whose full title is the Congregation of Our Lady of Mount Olivet. They are an offshoot of the Benedictine Order (q.v.), and were founded in 1313 by Giovanni Tolomei, a native of Siena, and professor of Philosophy in the university of that city, who believed himself to have been miraculously cured of blindness. The order was confirmed by pope John XXII., and Tolomei was chosen the first general.