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The primitive Dominicans were befriended by the Carthusians, whom they greatly admired, supposedly received their Black
Cappa and White Habit from the Carthusians and other customs, like the Venia, in token of their orientation to be contemplatives
when not out on the road in the active apostolate.
St. Ignatius Loyola would have been a Carthusian had not the needs
of the Church demanded he found the Society of Jesus. Again, built into Jesuit life was the idea that they devote themselves
to solitary contemplation when "recharaging" in their "cells". Ignatius made it easy for Jesuits to pass to the Carthusians
and Carthusians to the Jesuits. There is still a provision for Jesuits who become Carthusians to easily return to the Jesuits.
So,
you have the Dominicans with a semi-monastic form of contemplative life taking inspiration from the Carthusians, as well as
the Jesuits, with out the semi-monastic observance, also imitating the Carthusian contemplative life. St. Alphonsus di Ligouri
of the Redemptorists, also had this Carthusian contemplative emphasis to the point of telling his religious, "Redemptorists
in the apostolate and Carthusians when at home". Of course, St. John of the Cross and Fr. Antonio of Jesus, OCD, both had
been permission to join the Carthusians until intercepted by St. Teresa of Avila to help her with her discacled reform the
Carmelites. Thus, a number of Orders have Carthusian connections or inspirations, to the glory of God and the salvation of
souls.
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