 The Spanish, Italian and French congregations of Discalced, or Barefooted, Augustinians were successful (see below), and the Congregation del Bosco in Sicily established in the year 1818 had 3 convents.Among these reformed congregations, besides those of the Barefooted Augustinians, the most important was the German (Saxon) Congregation.As in Italy, Spain and France, reforms were begun as early as the fifteenth century in the four German provinces existing since 1299.