Hippolytus, Brothers (or Hospital Monks) of the Christian Love of

a monastic order of the Roman Catholic Church, established about 1585 by Bernardin Alvarez, a citizen of Mexico, for nursing the sick. It was sanctioned by the popes Sixtus V and Clement VIII, and received the same rights as the order of Brothers of Charity which had been established by St. Johannes a Deo, and with which it had statutes, aim, and dress in common. It only differs from it by the color of the monastic dress. The order was named after the patron saint of the city of Mexico, in commemoration of the fall of paganism, and the capture of the city of Mexico by the Christians on the day of St. Hippolytus (August 13). It never spread beyond Spanish America. (A. J. S.)