| Furthermore, clergy gave no encouragement to lay organisations such as religious confraternities or voluntary societies. |
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| Among the lay population, confraternities were an important source of devotional association, mutual aid, and charitable assistance to the poor. |
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| There is a considerable emphasis in this book on the experiences in the university, in the academies and confraternities, and in the arts. |
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| A host of new religious orders and lay confraternities were founded to preach, teach, tend the sick, and care for the poor. |
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| The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals. |
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| Alive, they lit fewer votive candles, and showed less interest in religious confraternities or the austerities of the monastic life. |
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| At the local level, people belong to a range of confraternities that are under the auspices of their parish church. |
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| As conveyed in our opening narrative, the activities of the confraternities entailed extensive songs, prayers and consoling dialogue. |
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| Early modern patronage came as before from courts, churches, aristocratic, and merchant families, from religious orders and confraternities. |
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| Discussion ranges from monastic confraternities to miracle stories and the pious legends of saints. |
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| The comforting confraternities added to such standard ceremonies a number of special procedures for the condemned. |
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| Clubs exist for bands, plant lovers, and religious confraternities. |
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| Unlike their precursors, these new cycles focused almost exclusively on the founders or ideological leaders of the various religious orders or confraternities. |
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| Having started life as confraternities for the most academic students, they have deteriorated into gang violence. |
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| One of these was through the scuole, six major and numerous minor philanthropic confraternities and guilds that originated in the 13th century. |
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| New confraternities and devotional groups grew up almost everywhere. |
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| They were given a Rule and a Dominican director, and confraternities had their own priors. |
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| The Venetian government and the confraternities were the most significant patrons, and their commissions to Venetian artists created a Venetian stylistic tradition. |
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| All private schools, confraternities and catechism centres have an ecumenical character. |
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| But confraternities also later pursued cattle ranching, as well as mule and horse breeding, depending on the local situation. |
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| So the confraternities were given money and weapons. |
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| The next day the confraternities returned with a beautiful silver monstrance, full of symbolism, whose base is a small statue of St. Thomas Aquinas, the singer of the Eucharist, with his arms raised holding the monstrance. |
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| In 'Vallerano e le Confraternite', published in 1996, Mon. Manfredo Manfredi states that the main source of income of the local confraternities was the sale of chestnuts. |
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| During his colossal campaign, Bouteflika gave particular attention to the Zaouïa, religious confraternities, in return of which he received their support. |
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| As confraternities have extensive connections with political and military figures, they offer excellent alumni networking opportunities. |
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| Since this was one of the city's prestigious confraternities, his acceptance suggests that he was already a respected member of the community. |
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| The book's chapters examine the development of schooling supported by the commune, lay confraternities, religious orders, the episcopate, and parents. |
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| As some of late medieval and early modern Europe's most vibrant urban confraternities, their relative neglect by other scholars, historians especially, was a surprise. |
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| Down the centuries confraternities have been crucibles of holiness for countless people who have lived in utter simplicity an intense relationship with the Lord. |
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| Confraternities also promoted moral reform in the community at large and sponsored much urban charity. |
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