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But other groups represented the Church Confraternities and clubs of the Newbury estate.

From The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

In Italy, the hooded Members of Confraternities who attend on funerals, are dismal and ugly to look upon; but the services they render are at least voluntarily rendered, and impoverish no one, and cost nothing. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

First came the leading members of the various Confraternities of the little city, all bearing tapers whose tongues of flame shone feebly in the fierce contemptuous sunlight, and all wearing snow-white smocks and coloured scarves.

From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)

Confraternities of charity like that of Châtillon were established on all the de Gondi estates, Madame de Gondi herself setting the example of what a perfect Lady of Charity should be.

From Life of St. Vincent de Paul by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

There are the confessions, sometimes twice a day; and the Confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament, of the Sacred Heart, of Holy Angels for Children. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)