archconfraternity
Sign in to saveAn archconfraternity () is a Catholic confraternity, empowered to aggregate or affiliate other confraternities of the same nature, and to impart to them its benefits and privileges.
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An archconfraternity () is a Catholic confraternity, empowered to aggregate or affiliate other confraternities of the same nature, and to impart to them its benefits and privileges.
==History== In 1569, Charles Borromeo started archconfraternities in Milan as a way to standardize the practice of the various penitent confraternities.
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