 These barefoot Augustinians (in France "Augustins déchaussés") were founded about 1560 by Thomas a Jesu (d. 1582).This order of Canons Regular also follow the Rule of St. Augustine, and were founded by St Norbert.At the end of the 20th century, there were more than one hundred Premonstratensian monasteries worldwide and over 1,500 canons and lay brothers.