Complex sentence: The community of religious clerics adopted the orders of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine; historically, references to the temple referred to a much larger "Convento dos Cónegos Regrantes de Santo Agostinho" ("Convent of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine").
Split into simpler sentences: The community of religious clerics adopted the orders of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine. Historically, references to the temple were seen to reference to a much larger "Convento dos Cónegos Regrantes de Santo Agostinho" ("Convent of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine").