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Example sentences for "confraternity"

Lexicographically close words:
confounded; confoundedly; confounding; confounds; confraternities; confrere; confreres; confront; confrontation; confronted
  1. The trade of printer is in their list, as it is in that of the Confraternity of Saint John of Bruges; but in this list there is no mention of the makers or printers of types.

  2. Equally unsatisfactory to an unprejudiced reader is the misconstruction of the word printer in the list of the different arts or trades embraced by the Confraternity of St. John the Baptist, at Bruges.

  3. The Confraternity had its charter renewed, but it was expressly forbidden to play the sacred dramas which it had been originally constituted to perform.

  4. No one of these, however, attained the importance of the Confraternity of the Passion.

  5. The Confraternity became regular actors of ordinary farces, and as time went on were known under the title of the Comedians of the Hotel de Bourgogne, a name which brings us at once into the presence of Moliere.

  6. Following her glance, she noticed the eyes of the Blessed Virgin resting kindly and for some time on Antoinette Peyret, who was unmarried and a member of the Confraternity of the Children of Mary.

  7. Ramiere is well known as the head of the admirable confraternity of "The Apostleship of Prayer," and the author of a number of excellent works on spiritual subjects, and also on the great religious questions of the day.

  8. Each confraternity except two, who share the high altar between them, has a particular chapel, whose name it takes, and which it supports by the collection made every Sunday.

  9. How many have seen the little Chapel of the Pilgrims, founded by the Confraternity of St. Anthony in honour of their saint as a hospice for poor pilgrims, though it is frescoed by Matteo de Gualdo and Mesastris of Foligno?

  10. The confraternity found the children not qualified for its charge.

  11. The artistic confraternity proposed in their constitutions the purity and independence of art.

  12. Father Fremin, her former guest of the Mohawk Valley, soon admitted her, without the customary delay, into the Confraternity of the Holy Family.

  13. As a rule St. Vincent established a confraternity of charity in the parishes that he visited to help the poor and above all to look after the homeless orphans.

  14. While St. Vincent was cure of Chatillon-les-Dombes he established in the parish a confraternity of charitable ladies for the care of the sick, the poor, and the orphans.

  15. In 1588 mysteries had been prohibited, and with the prohibition of the mysteries the Confraternity of the Passion lost the principal part of its reason for existence.

  16. The Confraternity was not itself the author or performer of the profaner kind of dramatic performance.

  17. The clerks of the Bazoche and the Confraternity of the Passion still produced and acted mysteries, moralities and farces.

  18. Confraternity of the Passion, the clerks of the Bazoche, and the Enfans sans souci enacted mysteries, moralities, soties and farces.

  19. But in 1548, when the Confraternity was formally established at the Hotel de Bourgogne, leave to play sacred subjects was expressly refused it.

  20. The Confraternity of our Lady of the Rosary was immediately carried thither; and this holy devotion was greatly revived, and other very good effects were wrought.

  21. In spite of the danger, many Japanese went to the place of the martyrdom to venerate the relics of these saints; and the Confraternity of the Rosary offered continual prayers that they might recover the bodies of these holy martyrs.

  22. He established in the island of Hermosa the holy Confraternity of La Misericordia.

  23. Miraculous strength was also given to the members of the confraternity to hold to their faith.

  24. Since by the rules of the confraternity all gifts offered to it had to be accepted, he thus won his footing; and the rest was easy.

  25. That at any rate is one story; another says that it was the chapel of a confraternity of men to which no woman might belong.

  26. Rocco, a philanthropical confraternity might meet to confer as to schemes of social amelioration, it was, in 1560, decided to invite the more prominent artists to make proposals as to its decoration.

  27. About ten o'clock the members of the Confraternity of Mercy, a Florentine order, arrived at the prison of Tordinona, and halted on the threshold with the crucifix, awaiting the appearance of the unhappy youths.

  28. Yet, after a short period of aberration, he rejoined his confraternity and mortified his flesh by discipline and strict attendance on the poor.

  29. They tell me that though there are upwards of a thousand registered in Venice, each man of the trade knows the whole confraternity by face and number.

  30. Monarchy, Christianity--all the trappings of a bloated past--the Free Confraternity of Durham and Tyneside deride.

  31. The Free Confraternity had no charms for me; daring sentiments were no part of my baggage; and I tried, instead, a little cold water.

  32. The rules of the confraternity prescribe the payments and other contributions of its members, provide for their assembling on the feast days of their patrons, fix certain fines, and regulate the ceremonies and expenses of their funerals.

  33. Behind, the Brothers of the Confraternity are represented (on the right wing) in attendance on the Pope, as spectators of the miracle.

  34. It was painted for the Confraternity of St. Anne at Louvain, and stood as an altar-piece in the church of St. Pierre.

  35. Right and left of the châsse are portraits of the members of the Confraternity of the Holy Blood by P.

  36. It shows an inscription stating that it was restored, after being burnt down, by the Confraternity of St. Sebastian (patron of archers).

  37. This picture forms the central piece of a =triptych=, painted for the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament.

  38. From the altar of the (painters’) Confraternity of St. Luke in the Cathedral.

  39. After the foundation of the confraternity of the Santa Misericordia, the latter also supported many poor Spanish orphan girls.

  40. But in 1632, a house having been bought in order to gather them all there together, the confraternity founded the school of Santa Isabel.

  41. Matteo da Gualdo, were taken from the Confraternity of S.

  42. The liberal donations given by Guidantonio, Duke of Urbino and sometime Lord of Assisi, whose devotion to the saint was great, may have enabled the confraternity to adorn it with its many frescoes.

  43. We come in a few minutes to the confraternity of San Lorenzo, standing somewhat below the level of the castle.

  44. Another confraternity in this street is San Crispino, which once possessed a picture by Niccolo Alunno, but that has long since disappeared, and only faint patches of colour remain above its gateway.

  45. Caterina because the members of that confraternity have charge of it.

  46. The first was painted for the Carpenters' Company of Antwerp, the second for the Confraternity of Saint Anne at Louvain.

  47. The confraternity of the Common Life resembled in several respects the Béguinage and the Brotherhoods of Penance, now decadent.

  48. The Confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was established by Father Hens in 1878.

  49. Then I remembered your Confraternity of Notre Dame des Victoires, since it is devoted to those who do not believe.

  50. But, my poor child, it is Friday to-day, and the Confraternity only meets on Thursday.

  51. Joining this on the north side was a chantry of the confraternity of St. George which formed a kind of north aisle for the parish church.

  52. A chantry of the Confraternity of St. George, built on the north side of the new church, took the place of a north aisle.

  53. To no one does Mr. Haworth hold the candle; he is candid to all, and pitches into the entire confraternity of his hearers sometimes.

  54. Amongst the preaching confraternity in the connexion it used to be known as "the ugliest Chapel in Great Britain and Ireland.

  55. After the hearse come members of the confraternity of Blue Penitents, one of whom carries a great wooden cross upon his shoulder.

  56. The dead boy's father is a Penitent, and this is why the confraternity has come out to-day.

  57. As the old members of the confraternity die, there are no postulants to fill their places.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confraternity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.