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Confraternity
- abstract: A confraternity is normally a Roman Catholic or Orthodox organization of lay people created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy. An archconfraternity is a "franchise" of confraternities, able to establish different groups using the same names and rules, such as the Confraternities of the Cord, Confraternity of the Rosary and others.
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confraternity /ˌkɒnfrəˈtɜːnɪtɪ/
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N a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood 协会; 尤指由基督教一般信徒成立的宗教或慈善组织; 兄弟会
原声例句
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After the French Revolution and Napoleon, and Napoleon makes peace with the church, there is,all of a sudden, a revival with people forming religious confraternities, of people paying to rebuild churches that have been vandalized during the Revolution, where they're melting down church bells to use as cannon and things like that.
在法国大革命和拿破仑时代,与教会达成和解协议之后,突然间,出现了宗教团体的复兴,人们斥资重建那些,在大革命中被肆意毁坏的教堂,当时人们把教堂大钟熔化了,去造大炮之类的东西
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