1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TERTIARIES (Lat. terliarii, from tertius, third), associations of lay folk in connexion with the Mendicant Orders. The old monastic orders had had attached to their abbeys confraternities of lay men and women, going back in some cases to the 8th century. The Confraternity Book of Durham is extant and embraces some 20,000 names in the course of eight centuries. Emperors and kings and the most illustrious men in church and state were commonly confraters of one or other of the great Benedictine abbeys. (On this subjec…
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- Vol. 26, pp. 660-660