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"Our Lady of Mt. Carmel," and that their congregation is the origin and centre of the Confraternities of the Scapular.
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Among the hymns sung by the Confraternities of the Virgin in
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Confraternities were formed for the express purpose of singing these canticles and their members were called Laudesi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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For "Associatio perseverantiæ sacerdotalis" see Priests, Confraternities of, III.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Confraternities were established to open schools and printing-offices for the publication and dissemination of polemical works; among them those of Lemberg, Vilna, and Kieff were famous.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Confraternities which made it their special object to venerate the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Confraternities and sodalities, in the present meaning of the word, the only ones which will be here mentioned, had their beginnings after the rise of the confraternities of prayer in the early Middle Ages, and developed rapidly from the end of the twelfth century, i.e. from the rise of the great ecclesiastical orders.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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This is shown by the innumerable hosts of poor souls who owe their release from Purgatory to the Confraternities for Poor Souls, and by the hundreds of thousands of poor sinners who owe their salvation to the sodalities.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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For the "Pious Union of St. Paul the Apostle", see Priests, Confraternities of.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Jülich, in the Archdiocese of Cologne; other Confraternities of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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