Lay brother is a largely extinct term referring to religious brothers, particularly in the Catholic Church, who focused upon manual service and secular...
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Laity (redirect from Lay person)
including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother. In both religious and wider secular usage, a layperson (also layman...
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Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, OCD (c. 1614 – 12 February 1691) served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. Christians commonly remember...
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Carthusians (section Lay brothers)
two types of monks: the choir monks, referred to as hermits, and the lay brothers. This reflects a division of labor in providing for the material needs...
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accredited preachers (Great Britain) Lay presidency, celebrating the Lord's Supper while unordained Lay brother (lay sister) Lay leader Practicing without a license...
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André Bessette (redirect from Brother Andre)
1937), commonly known as Brother André (French: Frère André) and since his canonization as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay brother of the Congregation of...
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Coronation Island (redirect from Lay-brother Rock)
of Penguin Point, including the Melsom Rocks, the Despair Rocks, and Lay-brother Rock. The island's irregular coast is indented by a great number of bays...
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A Religious Brother (abbreviated Br. or Bro.) is a lay member of a religious institute or religious order who commits himself to following Christ in consecrated...
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Didacus of Alcalá (category Canonized Roman Catholic religious brothers)
Alcalá), also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered...
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Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (redirect from Louis Martin (lay brother))
older sister, Marie-Louise, who became a Visitandine nun, and a younger brother, Isidore, who was a pharmacist. Her maternal family was from the Madré...
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"Lay Lady Lay", sometimes rendered "Lay, Lady, Lay", is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. Like...
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Fraternity (redirect from Frat brother)
A fraternity (from Latin frater 'brother' and -ity; whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order...
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poor, or injured Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Blessed Gerard, a lay brother of the Benedictine order, became its head when it was established. After...
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Martin de Porres (category Canonized Roman Catholic religious brothers)
Porres Velázquez OP (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI...
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Gerard Majella (category Canonized Roman Catholic religious brothers)
(Italian: Gerardo Maiella; 6 April 1726 – 16 October 1755) was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists...
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over the west wing of Cîteaux to a large group of lay brethren to cultivate the farms. These lay brothers were bound by vows of chastity and obedience to...
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Laypeople (redirect from Lay people)
study Lay judge Lay judges in Japan Laity, members of a church who are not clergy Lay brother Lay sister Lay preacher Lay apostolate Lay cardinal Lay reader...
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her mother to beg forgiveness, which she granted. He later became a lay brother in a Capuchin monastery and died in 1970. Maria was beatified in 1947...
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Stanley Omah Didia (born 19 May 1997), known professionally as Omah Lay, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer. He has released two EPs...
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Alessandro Serenelli (category Lay brothers)
model prisoner. Upon his release, he worked as a gardener, porter and lay brother in a convent of Franciscan Capuchin friars in the Marche until his death...
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Frito-Lay, Inc. (/ˈfriːtoʊ leɪ/) is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack...
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2,883 Brothers, who helped in running 1,154 education centers in 78 countries with 1,160,328 students, together with 107,827 teachers and lay associates...
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Thang", and subsequent hits "Work to Do", "Lay-Away" and their cover of Carole King's "It's Too Late". The brothers also covered two more King songs including...
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religious life. He was refused once but later was admitted as a Franciscan lay brother and became noted for his strict austerities, as well as his love for...
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cities, especially in London. The two best-known hide builders are Jesuit lay brother Nicholas Owen, who worked in the South and the Midlands,: 182 and Jesuit...
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Serbonnes, in today's Yonne département, in Burgundy, and became a Dominican lay brother. During the French Wars of Religion, Clément became fanatically religious...
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Orders are referred to as lay brothers. In most monastic communities today, little distinction exists between the lay brothers and the choir monks, as they...
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1040 – 3 September 1120), known also as Gérard de Martigues, was a lay brother in the Benedictine Order who was appointed as rector of the hospice in...
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("Peter Martyr") who later repented his actions and became a Dominican lay brother. He is venerated as a beatus by the Catholic Church. Prior to his entering...
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Thoronet Abbey (section Building for Lay Brothers)
local market. Much of the farming and administration was done by the lay brothers, monks drawn from a lower social class, who shared the monastery with...
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