By the 15th century, numerous individuals living under the Rule of the Third Order were living in small communities, many leading an eremetical life. They had been living under the same rule as the married penitents who led more routine forms of life. A papal decree of 1447 organized the more isolated communities into a new and separate religious order with its own rule of life. From that point, members were defined either as Third Order Regular (T.O.R.; i.e. living under a "Regula" or "Rule"), or as the Third Order Secular, for those members of the Order who lived in the world. In the nineteenth century many of the new congregations adopted the Rule of the Third Order, but most of them have no other connection with the First Order.