lay-brother

A bell summoned a lay-brother, the porter of this singularly situated monastery, to whom Arthur announced himself as an English merchant,

Anne of Geierstein 2008

I would suggest that the key to understanding exactly why the abbey should have continued using the services of its lay-brother lies in a principle first enunciated by Pope Pius XI in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931.

When Small is Sensible: Culture, Technology, and Subsidiarity 2008

Not a word was uttered by either of the party as they pursued the steep tract leading to the gates of this secluded edifice, which were opened to them by a lay-brother, and Ellena entered a spacious court.

The Italian 2004

The lay-brother who opened the gate, informed him that the father was in his cell, and Vivaldi stepped impatiently into the court requesting to be shewn thither.

The Italian 2004

Vivaldi had learned from a lay-brother of the convent, whom

The Italian 2004

But I shall never forget the terror inspired in my mind, being shut up in the bug-disappointer, when a facetious lay-brother of the convent fell upon me and began tickling me.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

The transept of the Jesuit Church in Gardiner Street was almost full; and still at every moment gentlemen entered from the side door and, directed by the lay-brother, walked on tiptoe along the aisles until they found seating accommodation.

Dubliners 2003

The lay-brother was large, taciturn, weary - having done all the work throughout - and by this time somewhat bored with the whole business.

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

And why take a lay-brother, if there was a cloister-brother, with a sweet voice in the Mass, willing to do the sweating into the bargain?

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

The deranged man, still wandering in mind and communing with himself in incoherent ravings, was led away out of the gatehouse on the first stage of his journey immediately after the midday meal, mounted on a mule, with a high, cradling saddle to give him some security from falling, in case the violent fit took him again, and with Brother Jerome and a brawny lay-brother one on either side, to support him at need.

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977