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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

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Among the Romanists, illiterate persons, who devote themselves at some convent to the service of the religious. They wear a different habit from that of the religious, but never enter into the choir, nor are present at the chapters; nor do they make any other vow than that of constancy and obedience.

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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Lay-Brothers'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​cbd/​l/lay-brothers.html. 1802.
 
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