Annunciade ('Annunciation'), and various alternate spellings, is the name of several religious or military orders, including:
- Servites, also known as theServants orAnnunziata, first religious order of its kind was instituted in 1232 by sevenFlorentine merchants
- Annunciates of Lombardy also called theAmbrosians, theSisters of Saint Ambrose, or theSisters of Saint Marcellina, were organized atPavia in 1408 by young women from Venice and Pavia, under the direction of Father Beccaria, O.S.B., for the care of the sick.
- Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a contemplative order ofFranciscannuns founded atBourges byJoan of France, after her annulment fromLouis XII, with houses throughout France
- Archconfraternity of the Annunciation was a charitable association founded in 1460 inRome byCardinalTorrecrematato providedoweries to girls from poor families
- Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, also calledCelestian Annunciades, is a community of contemplative nuns founded in 1602 in Genoa by BlessedMaria Vittoria Fornari
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Annunciade".Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
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