laybrother

According to www. catholic.org, he was an Englishman "who went to Valladolid, Spain, in 1590, became a Jesuit laybrother and returned to England in 1598" only to be tortured and executed.

Roger Hernandez: From Jose to Ashley? 2008

He became a laybrother for the Dominican order at age 15 and remained a member the rest of his life.

Archive 2008-11-01 Mary 2008

He became a laybrother for the Dominican order at age 15 and remained a member the rest of his life.

St. Martin's Mice Jennifer Gregory Miller 2008

At fifteen, he became a laybrother at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent his whole life there — as a barber, farm-laborer, almoner, and infirmarian among other things.

St. Martin de Porres, religious Argent 2006

‘I ask your opinion of a sonnet written to order on the occasion of the first feast since his canonisation proper of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a laybrother of our Order, who for 40 years acted as hall porter to the College of Palma in Majorca; he was, it is believed, much favoured by God with heavenly light and much persecuted by evil spirits.

Notes 1918

Eight years later the two were arrested at Hindlip, near Worcester, and were committed to the Tower, together with Father Garnet, and Nicholas Owen, another laybrother, servant to Garnet.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Adam turned pale, pressed his son so convulsively to his breast that he groaned with pain, sent a laybrother to call Father Benedict, confided his child to him, and walked towards home with drooping head.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a laybrother of our Order, who for 40 years acted as hall porter to the College of Palma in Majorca; he was, it is believed, much favoured by God with heavenly light and much persecuted by evil spirits.

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866