Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Outlaws, another well-known street and creek confraternity, began as a splinter group of the Icelanders (German). [6] In the late 1990s, all-female confraternities began to be formed. These include the Black Brazier (Bra Bra), the Viqueens, Daughters of Jezebel, and the Damsel. Female confraternities have supplied spies for allied male ...
Confraternity Nickname Date founded Institution Location Status References Black Brazier (aka Neo Black Queens of Africa) Bra Bra, Axe Queens, AYE Early 1990s Nigeria Active [2] [7] Damsel: Early 1990s Nigeria [2] Daughters of Jezebel: Early 1990s Nigeria [2] Jezebel: Amazons Nigeria [11] Knights of the Aristos: Nigeria [7] Lady of Rose ...
Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, edited by Thomas P. McCarthy, CSV, The Catholic University of America Press, 1964. ISBN 0-8132-1312-6; Spicing Ecclesiastical Gumbo: The Life of Napoléon-Joseph Perché, by William Lemuel Greene, Claitor's Publishing Division, 2012. ISBN 1-59804-636-5
The Roman Catholic Bona Mors Confraternity (lLatin for "Good" or "Happy Death") was founded on 2 October 1648, in the Church of the Gesù, Rome, by Vincenzo Carafa, [1] seventh General of the Society of Jesus. In 1729, it was raised to an archconfraternity by Benedict XIII. The object of the association is to prepare its members by a well ...
The history of the Irmandade da Boa Morte ("Sisterhood of the Good Death"), a religious confraternity devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin, is part of the history of mass abduction of blacks from the African coast to the cane-growing catchment area around the port of Salvador, Bahia, known as the Recôncavo Baiano.
Purgatorial societies are Roman Catholic Church associations or confraternities which aim to assist souls in purgatory reach heaven. The doctrine concerning purgatory (the term for the intermediate state in Roman Catholicism), the condition of the poor souls after death (particular judgment), the communion of saints, and the satisfactory value of our good works form the basis of these ...
The Daughters of Isabella is a spiritual, social and charitable organization that was started as a female auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus.The first circle of the Order was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1897, as an auxiliary to the Rev. John Russell Council of the Knights of Columbus for the purpose of uniting all Catholic women in a sisterhood to achieve the following aims; to ...
A painting of cornette-wearing Daughters of Charity by Karol Tichy, depicting a funeral in an orphanage run by the sisters (National Museum in Warsaw).. The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Latin: Societas Filiarum Caritatis a Sancto Vincentio de Paulo; abbreviated DC), commonly called the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, is a ...