In the Middle Ages Scotland had much more limited organisation for poor relief than England, lacking the religious confraternities of the major English cities.

During a pastorate of some twenty-five years he built costly churches and commodious school edifices; he also established several religious confraternities among his parishioners.

The song is performed during the processions by religious confraternities that move slowly through the streets of cities and towns in southern Spain.

John Cabot appears in the Venetian records in 1471 when he was accepted into the religious confraternity of St John the Evangelist.

A religious confraternity was formed, conducted by a prior who was administrator of the mine for the Fuggers.

The town also established ecclesiastical organizations, with four wealthy parishes, several hospitals, some religious confraternities and nine religious institutes.

The church was reconstructed in the 17th and 18th century as the home of various lay and religious confraternities.

As there was no "X" in the painted date, it has been argued that the window dates from the decade before Flodden, and commemorates a religious confraternity of archers.

His stay in Limerick was particularly successful, and he founded a religious confraternity of laymen which numbered 5000 members.

There are also several side altars in the aisles commissioned by the local nobility and religious confraternities.