 The observance and manner of life was mild relative to those times, meat being allowed four days in the week.Ecclesiastical privileges were granted to the order almost from its beginning.Alexander IV freed the order from the jurisdiction of the bishops; Innocent VIII, in 1490, granted to the churches of the order indulgences such as can only be gained by making the Stations at Rome; Pope Pius V placed the Augustinians among the mendicant orders and ranked them next to the Carmelites.